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.