Hi Ladies,
Didn't mean to go MIA, but my life last week was a little out of control and I fell asleep many a night before I could get in a workout.
I did CH Elite: Rope & Ride or Wild Horse in lo-key mode and made it to over 10,000 steps on Wed and Thurs. Friday I made it to over 10,000 steps just from being at work and running around setting up our dept holiday party and then cleaning up afterward.
I ate way too much on Friday (at the holiday party) and Saturday (leftovers that I brought home from the holiday party) so Sunday I got up like a woman possessed (and frustrated with herself for overeating on Fri & Sat
) and exercised for 2 hours.
I did Combat 45 Power Kata, Combat 30 Kick Start, Jessica's 15 min Belly Blaster (from 15 min Fast Fat Blasts) and then I tacked on CH Elite: Wild Horse to take things down a notch, and then did a nice stretch. I'm currently dealing with pretty bad DOMS, mostly in my calf muscles (had to be all those kicks), that are making it a challenge to walk.
I did segments of CH yesterday throughout the day but fell asleep before I got in an official workout to make it to 10,000 steps for the day (I did make it to 8,600
). Planning to get in some cardio at some point today. I have a take-home essay exam to grade, that I'm hoping to finish before my students have to present their final projects tomorrow during our final exam period.
SB - I'm sorry to hear you had to bench your walks since your sciatica pain is back.
I know that has to be super frustrating (sending {{hugs}}). I'm glad that the pain is manageable for everyday things; makes total sense that you would be gun shy to try anything else. Uggghhh! I hope you feel better soon. Congrats to your DD; I'm glad that y'all were able to celebrate her graduation (and sorry to hear it ended up being painful).
Penguin - Wow, you've been doing a great job with your workouts.
I was relieved to hear that you were not directly hit/impacted by the crazy tornados over the weekend. Hope they get your cable back and up and running today. It's always nice to have DVDs to fall back on.
I don't think that I could play a weight workout while doing my own thing, but I have played a workout and then paused it at several points while I added reps or went at my own pace and then started it back up for the next move and so forth. I do that when I do KCM's Muscle Up workout because she usually goes at a faster pace than I want to do the reps.
Nora - You've also been doing a great job with your walks/workouts.
It's nice to get in movement when you can. Final grades are do on Monday evening. (I think I can, I think I can.
) I'm giving an exam on Friday and I'm tired and slow(er) these days at grading, so I may ask for an extension to Tues morning.