Sunday-Haven't Had Enough

Yay! I'm having a much better day today and it's only 11:45 am. Since Zoe kept barking at 8am I ended up getting up just to let her out but decided to stay up and get a start to the day. I attempted to eat a new breakfast, oatmeal and egg whites cooked together (out of the clean eating recipes) and it was pretty gross. I couldn't finish it. After a few bites I tossed it in the trash and opted for greek yogurt with blueberries instead. Since I have been slacking on walking the dogs, I decided it would be good to walk them before it got too hot out (we have another heat advisory warning today). The walk went well. Bella was kind of a jerk because of the number of cats that were just hanging out on sidewalks. Someone's Jack Russell decided it would be a good idea to get out of it's yard and run up on Bella a few blocks from our house. Luckily I just barely had to push it away with my foot and it got the message. It's so annoying when dogs are loose when I'm walking both of them, although they usually remain pretty calm, but you can tell they are annoyed by the situation. 

When we got back to the house we hung out in the back yard for a while since Dan was still asleep. I heart hanging out in the back yard with them. It's relaxing to lay in the lounge chair listening to the birds sing. 

I decided I better do my workout early today in case the heat got the best of me. I ended up doing the "Haven't had enough" workout -http://www.bodyrock.tv/2011/07/20/havent-had-enough-workout/. 

Another tough workout. I think taking 3 days off this week made it more difficult. I switched some of th workout up from what Zuzana did since I don't have a ugi ball. 

Here's the breakdown:

Part 1-15 rounds of 10/50 second intervals

-Burpee pushup on ball (I used an 8lb medicine ball)

-Sandbag single leg dead lift (left leg)

-Sandbag single leg dead lift (right)

-Crisscross hip thrust 

-Jump lunge and twist

Part 2: 300 ball squeeze for time. 

Whoa, I don't know if it's because I worked out early today or I just was a little off from taking too much time off this week. I can't do the crisscross hip thrust to save my life. She does say it's advanced, but I feel like i should at least somewhat be able to do them, maybe just not many. I ended up balancing my hands on the 8 lb medicine ball. What a sissy. I asked Dan to see if he could do them, he barely could, which made me feel less like a sissy since he is really good at core workouts. I know my core needs a lot work but trying these with a yoga ball me feel like a total beginner. Maybe you can do them easily since you are a badass and have done p90x and are now doing Insanity. You should try it and let me know :-)

I used a yoga ball for the 2nd part. It's essentially a pulsing wide leg squat. KILLER. At 50 I was already thinking Zuzana was crazy. Dan came up as I was about to start Part 2. I would do 15-20 then have to stop and shake out my legs for a second. My knees felt like they were going to give out at 100. Dan kept saying "ride that fat pony!" i had to keep myself from laughing since that tends to make me lose momentum. I got through it in 6.08. I thought I had read that Zuzana did this in 4 minutes something but I just checked and it was 5 minutes and 54 seconds. I'm glad I double checked.

We are off to go to Sharon Nursery to see what we want to get for the front yard. We hate hated the ugly stuff the people before us planted out there since the day we moved in. We always talk about puling it all out but never do. We have let the front "yard" go this summer and now it's full of weeds and poison ivy. We are probably going to pull everything out (except for the bushes against the house) and start over. I so don't have a green thumb. Wish us luck!