Too tired for this...

Still really low energy, so I picked this workout cause it looked really easy on paper.

Soooo hard, but I could do the 10 push-ups regular style all in a row! I couldn't believe it.

My jump squats, admittedly, got more shallow as time went on, as did my lunges.

But the lower half of my body weighs 40 tons today, so I am just impressed I made it through it.

Caring is caring.

Today was not a day for anything more strenuous than a calm, slow yoga workout.

It was kinda nice doing poses for 10 minutes and trying to rest and relax into them.

Mmm... Pilates.

There is nothing I love more than working hard while lying down. I found this little Pilates workout, and while I didn't have a medicine ball, I did have dumbbells and a foam roller that did just as good a job.

I miss my old Pilates class at work, I really have never worked so hard moving so little in my whole life. My butt got *worked* and no DVD has been able to get the same results.

With the core work from February, this was relatively easy, and much more fun than hanging out in plank for 2 minutes.

Sleepy time workout...

Got to play on the ball today, it was nice and fun. It was also fast, which is a great thing considering how sleepy I was/am. More friday Zumba, so that was also nice and fun!

I blame India.

Since my sweetheart is working on projects with people in India, the hustle and bustle of the morning started out much earlier than normal here. It has yet to reach 7 AM here, and he has already been at work for an hour and a half, and I have snuck in a full breakfast (scrambled egg, cottage cheese, marinara sauce all wrapped in a tortilla... mmm), a giant load of laundry, and today's workout! The pin sent me over to Back On Pointe (of course!), but the graphic claims its home as Move Nourish Believe. I could not find the graphic on the site itself, though. It was such a short little workout I didn't mind having to repeat it 2 times. Hard to say if it was easier since it's so early in the morning, or if I am just stronger now. Maybe both.

I predict I will sleep well (and early) tonight.

Edit: I found it! All I needed to do was a reverse image search in conjunction with the words from the URL. Oh, internet, you so smart. 

I go to 11.

Somehow Fitocracy gave me a hojillion points for today's workout. It does seem heavily weighted towards lifting. (I see what I did there...)  

Doing Zumba helped push it over the edge a bit, but mostly it's all this arm work over here. My guns are tired and sore. I can see definition in my bicep, I'm all giddy about it.

Aim for the moon, hit a lot of stars.

Tonight's workout was really fun to do while waiting to watch movies and feed my friends delicious corned beef. Must of the moves were very familiar, but the high kicks I had to piece together myself. It seemed like I could take it at face value and tried to high kick in place. No go, I could not stop stepping forward after every kick, so I stopped fighting it and paraded around the kitchen and living room kicking like a showgirl. It was super fun, I recommend it. My planking stamina has gone down since the daily training, how quickly you lose out when you don't use it.

Yesterday, I was still catching up on weekend sleep, and adjusting to daylight savings. Early in the evening I was snuggling and watching tv, then bam, 2AM and I'm being ushered upstairs to bed. But I did walk to and from work and did an extra hour of hooping today, so it's hard to feel too bad. I suppose out of 365 days, missing some will be inevitable, but I can minimize it all I can. Being active has become a habit now, and I am looking forward to workouts now, which is just where I want to be.

Abs-olutely Fabulous!

I was excited when this workout turned out easier than I thought it would be... my Fab Abs are still large and in charge! Crunches on the ball with the wall are super fun. So is channeling Dr Seuss.

I added in some stretching afterwards, since it felt so good yesterday.

Day 68 - Failure

I failed to do an internet workout yesterday, and here's why I don't care:

-Surprise Zumba class at lunch
-Hours of juggling in the evening
-Impromptu yoga session
-A night of rolling around on the floor

After such an active day, and staying up WAY too late, I was happy to find a stretching routine for today. Nice and low key, very happy.

The model in the workouts has her eyes closed in every photo... I didn't do that when I stretched.

A waist routine that makes your butt tired.

Not sure if I was just doing it wrong, or what... but my waist barely felt a thing during this workout. It was really nice and quick, which is good, cause I am kinda hungry. My injuries seem to be healing, very happy about that. 

Butt-butt

Could not resist the 5 minute title, and there was nothing in this workout that would aggravate my toe or shoulder. While it was quick, and I did the workout in jeans, it was still a good amount of work. Especially those jump squats... hoooooey!

Permission to rest.

Yesterday's workout was snuck in before dancing, and I really rushed through it, but it seems like it was a good thing as my shoulder really hurt by the end. I was focusing so hard on trying to find something that didn't hurt my toe I ignored the shoulder pain that creeped in over the weekend. So today I gave myself permission to take it easy, and do a very fulfilling stretching workout. Almost skipped it entirely, but a power nap gave me some energy. It was some stretches you would expect, then a few that threw me a bit. 

I look much more like a T when I try to do this. But my hammies were grateful. 

She's got legs... she's forgot how to use them...

Back to the queen of graphic workout bits, today's workout was all about the legs. I realized through this endeavor that most of the workouts on pinterest come from her, and that she also has her own workout calendar that she creates for her readers, which is super awesome. I also realized today that after a month of doing nothing but abs and a little bit of Zumba, my legs are now made of jello. Even so, this does feel like it's getting easier to jump into workouts that might be 15-20 minutes. My wobbly legs didn't try to talk me into quitting, either... they just were like "Haha, this is what you get for ignoring me you WHORE!" My legs have a bit of an attitude problem.

I added things to this workout, which is odd for my bare minimum attitude, but my obsessive need to be symmetrical drove me to do 10 split squat jumps (seriously, give those a try, they are nuts), and 2 360 twists. Also, jumping is fun.

Fantastic side effects are happening, I snuck in a little Just Dance last night and thought I sweat and was worked, I did not feel the painful wheezing I have had before. Which answer the question I didn't care ask, 'How long before any of this 5 minutes of working out a day crap actually makes a difference?' (I guess my brain has a bit of an attitude problem, too.) 2 months. It took me two month to go... "what the hell, why do I not have the urge to kick puppies in the face?"

This is my year.

World's fastest workout!

Ok, this might not be true since my speedy yoga stint took less time than today's workout.

 It was really helpful to have a partner in crime for this workout, devious as he may be.

He had a timer and called out my next move, cheerily reminding me when I was not done yet with an exercise. He also tried to trick me into going around again, sneaky thing, but I had read it and new it was only 2 rounds. It does seem that this does not burn as many calories as a 40 minute run... that claim just seems preposterous. However, I do feel like I got a good little workout in without a lot of time. Squat thrusts... oh man.

Yoga!

I learned some wonderful things tonight:

1: Songza has a whole list of playlists for yoga, and they are quite nice.

2: I *need* more yoga in my life.

When I first started my job I did yoga 2 times a week, and sometimes more at home, and I need to get back to that kind of consistency. It just feels so nice, and it's clear I need other people around me since today's workout did not take me very long to get through.

I searched for the tumblr of the person who originally made this graphic, but had no luck reading the url no matter how large I blew up the picture.

I tried to take my time, but my strength has never been to sit (or pose) still for a long time. Except that once, but I was lying down under a blanket... way easy.

I snapped, crackled and popped my way through it and felt stretched and happy by the end. Seriously, I think I burned through it in 3 minutes. I need a much longer list of poses the way I go through them.