Monday we drove home Ft Lauderdale and unpacked. No workout there other than toting around laundry.

Tuesday night was karate. We practiced getting out of choke holds and arm holds – basically what to do if someone comes up and grabs you. It was fun, but not a real hard workout, so I came home and did ab/core before showering. Boat pose, crunches, bicycle crunches, plank contest with Wendy (I won.) A new Yoga Download workout I did has you go in boat pose, then put your hands behind your hips with your fingertips facing your body and elbows in tight. You lower your feet to hovering just above the floor, hold for 5 breaths, and bring them back to boat. Repeat 5 times. It’s not as easy as it sounds.

Wed AM I went to the gym. I decided to break my cardio up, so I did about 12 mins on the treadmill, then an upper body workout, then abs, then Stairmaster, than core and stretching. I think I’ll do that again today, but lower body instead of upper body in between.

Last night 2 women from Brian’s Ragnar Relay team went running at 6:30pm. They are at about my pace, but that timing was hard for me. I usually get home from work at 5:30, and we had 3 teen girls to feed last night. I’d like to be able to join them in the future though.

After dinner Brian and I watched “Hot Tub Time Machine”. It was fun. There are bits of Back to the Future in it, and too much sex and language for me to let the kids watch it, but fun for us. It’s the first time John Cusak seemed to be showing his age (to me).

When I do an upper body workout I do one of 3 things: The weight machine circuit the gym has OR 15-20 lb hand weights on a bench OR 12-15 lb hand weights using a ball as my bench. Which do you prefer?