By Jove, I Think I’ve Got It
December 29, 2006
I am a few days behind on my workout recaps, so this is just going to be short.
I went on the treadmill downstairs for about an hour for my Christmas day workout. I did a couple of interval workouts to make it interesting and well, to give myself a few mini breaks during the workout.
The next day was a rest day for me and a well deserved one at that too.
Wednesday I did Complete Aerobics and Weight Training from the Firm again.
Thursday night I did Buns of Steel 7 – the Step workout. OMG what a blast from the past. I used to do this workout almost daily like, gulp, 10 years ago. Ach! I think I got rid of it when I moved to Arizona, but I found it in the Dollar section at Target awhile ago. Man, I loved the Dollar Spot section at Target – especially since every once in awhile they would have most of the Buns of Steel videos for sale. I remember the first time I saw them there, I picked up like 6 of them – of course I left most of those in Portland, but oh well.
This video is 40 minutes long and is listed as intermediate/advanced, but it really is more beginner/intermediate. The length is one really awesome thing about this workout. It’s like when you look for step workouts they are either 30 minutes long with a warm up and cool down or about an hour or longer. 30 minutes for a workout is pretty short, especially if you are not a beginner exerciser, but an hour is just a little too long if you’re not a high intermediate or advanced exerciser – but 40 minutes – it’s just right.
I got through it alright. I was sweating a bit and my heart rate did get up there, but I felt like such a wimp since I could only do the workout on my 4 inch high step. See when I used to do this before – years ago – I would do it on an 8 inch step and barely break a sweat, so a lot of times I would do a second tape right after this one. Man, I guess I was in pretty good shape back then. Of course I didn’t think I was, but I was!
But, I guess all of this exercising is finally paying off. I think I have finally lost a little weight. I don’t know how much though since I don’t like to weigh myself, I pretty much just like to go by how my clothes are fitting and my clothes are feeling a little looser. Go me!
Of course, it is probably because I am not eating as much since my Grandma is gone. It is really nice not having to make sure that something filling gets cooked everyday since a lot of days I don’t feel like eating during “dinnertime.” Of course, I could have probably lost more weight if we didn’t have all of these Christmas snacks around, but oh well.
I am hoping that I will be able to keep this up after my Grandma gets back.
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