Started Firm 12 minute trainer cardio... ended in the second one.
Firm Core Cardio 2... DONE!
I had to workout at 6am, so I wasn't really into it. I started on 12 minute trainer, but found I was trying to make it tougher. then when I got to the second segment and I had to warm up again or fast forward, I realized this workout will be too high maintenance for me and I didn't want to stretch that much, so I ended it and went with core cardio 2.
That workout ended up good at the beginning, but it sure has a lot of jumping in it!! Lotsa bouncing and jumping and squats. I just didn't want to bounce and jump and squat. So I did about 45 minutes of it and decided to call it a day, since I was modifying a lot of it.
It was okay, not really what I felt like doing at 6am!
Today my shoulders are tired. I dont know why. I don't know what workout to do today, probably one that's not shoulder heavy, which is tough with Firms! They are all shoulders and legs! Maybe I will pull out a split and do lower body. We will see!
We met a friend at a low key park where there is water, but it is in the form of a little stream, a sandbox with an old fashioned water pump to play with water and sand, and a smaller splash pad area that splashes water straight into the air. LB and her friend played for probably 3 hours in the sandbox with water. It was a quiet day. So the other Mom and I walked around the park a few times since she had the dog they are dog sitting with her. It was quiet and pleasant. Not so stimulating and exhausting. I might start suggesting that park more.
Today is 2 hour karate graduation. 2 hours. The instructor announced that a lot of people are asking him why 2 hours? And he said "because we have soooo many people graduating, it will take 2 hours." I am here thinking, if you have that many, why don't you split it in 2 and do 2 graduations... one from 11:30 to 12:30, and one from 12:45 to 1:45? Why torture everyone, including making the kids stay on the mats working in their hot karate outfits (they have to wear the canvas tops for this one) for TWO HOURS? My friend paid $40 each kid when she had to miss graduation to have them do a graduation for the kids after a class, and quite honestly, that sounds like a small price to pay. I wish I would have just given them $40 and told them we can't make it! Now I feel like our whole Saturday is spent there, and over lunch time. They don't give the kids a break, and I have never seen a kid allowed to leave for water or potty breaks during graduation. maybe since it's 2 hours, they will be more flexible.
So today I will be sitting in a hot room, watching LB be tortured for 2 hours. I really feel bad for her! We will make it.
I wonder if I can strap an ice pack to her or something...
Yesterday I did taxes at DH's shop. About midway through, I got up to go find invoices, and DH sat at the computer and found some problems with orders and I finished what I was doing, then sat there in a chair for 1/2 hour waiting for him to be done. Finally I decided to get LB and go to dinner (she stayed with our friend after the park) so I left. I got LB, ended up talking becuase someone else showed up too, and spent 1 1/2 hours instead of 5 minutes. So we ended up with grocery store sushi and I by the time I finished taxes, it was about 8:30pm.
I was exhausted, and LB made another video so she wanted me to see it. I watched a bit of it, and DH announced he was lighting the fire pit. So I had to push through and go outside to the fire pit. Then a friend and his daughter showed up. Everyone was here until about 11pm, and I was beyond exhausted. I crashed. Even when I go to bed late, I wake up at the same time-ish. So I woke up at 4:45am, even though I didn't get to sleep until after 11.
I was so cranky between the looooong time I spent on taxes (started at about 4:30pm, didn't finish until 8:30pm), the hours in the sun and I didn't drink enough, and I was so hungry by the time we got dinner I didn't eat sushi, instead I ate these fried cucumber chips I found (they were on sale!!!) and filled up on those, so I ate like crap. This morning I woke up with a big headache. Now I have to face 2 hour karate. ugh. I feel more for LB than myself on that one, but I am not excited for it for me either!!
Eventmom: I have to check out that lastics this morning. Sometimes I want a good stretch, but I am not a dancer either! I have weight lifting bones and build, not ballerina. My friend and I were talking yesterday, she said "I tell my daughter she can be anything she wants to be if she works hard enough!" I told her, no matter how hard I work, I will never be a ballerina. There's just some things we are NOT built for!! Others are, so let them do it! I will lift heavy things.
Yes on the PT's! I felt like the others were just running a script. They'd look at the time and say "OK, let's do this then" and I felt like they were just doing stuff to fill the time. Plus they'd put me in the paraffin for the first 20 minutes of the hour, so I was paying $70 every time for 20 minutes of paraffin that I can do at home. Then I'd get a script and some fumbling and time fillers. I still am not convinced it's all 100% good, but I am willing to give it more of a shot at this point. My Doctor visit yesterday, she checked my range of motion and said the bone seemed like it's healing or healed, and with the ROM I have I should not worry about hurting it at this point. She said that using it in daily living should be good PT too but to continue on with the PT I'm doing.
So part of me is thinking "I am just going to start using it in daily life, that's kinda what it's meant to do" and a lot of my PT exercises mimic daily living. I dunno. I still think it's kinda pointless, but I want to make sure I give myself the best opportunity to get full use and range of motion back, so I will keep going, even if it is hesitantly.
Ebianco: I have a tendency to minimize injuries or discomforts, and even my closest friends say they forget about my finger. So you are not alone! HA! I was glad to read you think that the BSST I did is the most like a classic too! That made me feel a little validated, for whatever reason! I used to think those tic toc abs on the step Tracy Long does in Maximum Body Shaping were worthless and hated them. Now I kinda like them!
So I cut out all the Lindas, and added a bunch of KCM's to my cart!!
I have KCM's already and don't use them. So why I added them, I have no idea. The clips were great and looked like something I'd do... but I am not doing KCMs. I have all the Firms on the site. I also had the Do More Pilates workouts in my cart, and I am not doing Pilates right now. So do I get workouts I am currently not doing so when I do them they are there, or do I skip getting new workouts, since I obviously don't NEED them? I would leave the Lindas on the shelf if I got them, since they have titles such as "inner thighs (22 minutes)" and "glutes (20 minutes)" and I will NEVER do those. Like my other Lindas, besides that one lounge room series workout I do, I will never do them. So that's where I am right now. Workouts I won't use in my cart but look interesting, workouts I won't use are out of my cart. I don't know if this point if I will even take advantage of the sale or just can it all and do what I have.
I also seem to watch clips, see a move and it hits me "I have (insert workout name) already and this is so much like it!!" so I decide against it. The workout can be nothing like it, but I see the move, flash to what I have, and decide I have another workout like it that I don't do, so I can't get this one. Probably good though!
Have a great weekend you guys!