Wore my YogaPaws to DD2′s karate class tonight and brought my headphones. Did Yogadownload’s Yoga For Runners series #1 for 30 mins, skipped the meditation at the end so I could extend the workout with some side planks, cobblers pose, pushups, and stretching.

For the last 20 mins of class I started reading “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective teens”. The chapter on creating a personal mission statement and determining your goals is really great.

22 mins on Stairmaster, level 7 speed intervals.
Squats on bosu with 10 lb weights, overhead/squat circuit with 20 lb, lunges on BOSU-no weight, tricep kickbacks with 8 lb, walking pushups on bosu, crunches on ball with one leg on wall, back extension on ball, shoulder extension with 6 lbs, plank on ball with one leg arms bent and one leg arms straight, oblique crunches with ball against wall, stretching.
I’ll be taking the next 2 days OFF.
cya soon!

Today I tried a new circuit type thing. It made me work hard. That makes me smile
1. 5 min warmup on dreadmill.
2. 10 min easy run (10.16/mm pace or 5.7 MPH.)
3. 12 pushups
4. 5 min running (10.54/mm pace or 5.5 MPH)
5. 24 crunches
6. 5 min running (10.54/mm pace or 5.5 MPH)
7. 20 reverse crunches
8. 5 mins walking on dreadmill
9. 20 twists with 8 lb. medicine ball. I don’t know what these are called, I learned them last Friday. You start standing with your legs hip-width apart, holding the medicine ball at chest level. Then you twist and sink into a full lunge, so your legs are now in a side-lunge 90 degrees from the direction you were facing at the start, and the medicine ball is at waist height 180 degrees from where you started. I did 20 – so 10 in each direction. It helps to do these with the mirror behind you so when you twist you can see if you’ve brough the med ball all the way around.
10. 10 of these on each side: http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/back-exercises/squat-medicine-ball-twist-low-to-high/.
11. Then my favorite – hold 18 lb medicine ball (I started at 14 lbs and worked my way up.) Stand in front of a BOSU. Squat down and sit on the BOSU, ball at chest height. Stand and lift ball overhead, dip back into tricep dip. Return ball to chest height and repeat. I think I did 16 of those.

Then I stretched with a dash of Yoga.

Today’s 3 mile run turned into more of a walk/run. Watch out, I’m going to whine, but only for 2 sentences.

It’s so hot! It was 84 degrees with a dew point of 77, making the “feel temp” 94 degrees at 8am. My eyelids were dripping sweat into my eyes at 1.3 miles. What does one do about that? At least my contacts felt good.

So I did a lot of brisk walking and won’t even tell you how slow my 3 miles were today. But, hey, I went out and moved my @ss for 3 miles this morning! That still makes me smile!