Okay, attitude problem or no, here’s today’s fitness report:

Just finished Fitness Bender’s Rock Hard Body workout, which is the first time I’ve done any of her routines. I rather liked it so I think I will do more in the future. I did 2 sets only (because no matter how much instant progress I want to see, it does appear I am still in the beginner category). Breakout and my notes below.

1. Left Lunge Jump No big thing, despite my hate of plyo. I might should do more lunges though because I always find them really effing hard and tend to tip over after a couple (making the switch lunges like on the Bodyrock fit test really fucking hard/dangerous)
2. Right Lunge Jump Ditto above
3. Squat Kickbacks Easy peasy. I’m not sure if I should have done 10 for each side though? I only did 10 total.
4. Sumo Squats Not too bad. Again, I might should have done 10 per side instead of 10 total?
5. Tricep Plank Leg Cross Over Liked this. I have retarded elbows (really, really sharp and my skin is screwy) so I don’t tend to like tricep planks because they hurt my skin but this wasn’t too band and I liked the circuit. Again, 10 total, not per side?
6. Plank Leg Lift These were honestly kind of boring. Maybe I should have lifted my leg higher or done them in regular instead of tricep plank? Sometimes when I lift my leg back too high from plank it pulls my back or gives me an ass-cramp (glute cramp) so don’t want that. I did do 10 per side though.
7. Side Plank Series (left) Ack! I did the second round without the forward fold because I started to fall around the last few on the first round and I don’t really want to break my wrist.
8. Side Plank Series (right) Side planks are REALLY HARD.
9. Dive Bomber I swear, these always give me a newfound respect for Zuzana. I was gargling my heart.
10. Staff Pose Reach (right) Pretty easy.
11. Staff Pose Reach (left) Ditto.

Did 5 minutes cardio between the two sets, rotating between 30 seconds of various things - jogging in place, jumping sans-rope, jumping jacks, high knees, buttkicks, air punches, arm circles (not super cardio, but good enough), etc. 

Following, I planned to do 5 more minutes cardio, but decided to do a 5 minute Blogilates video instead.

I open the Till the World Ends Workout. It begins with dive bombers (or as Cassey calls them, cobra push ups). 

I close the Till the World Ends Workout.

Next one was the Lady Gaga “Judas” Standing Abs & Legs Workout, which was fine, though not particularly challenging. Perhaps I should have done it in heels.

Other than that, I have stayed on the hourly push up reminders (despite rolling my eyes/”I don’t wanna”ing 75% of the time they pop up), which has been pretty awesome. I discovered a week or so ago that 5 is my magic number for seeming like not many of an exercise, so that has been working well and I have definitely been grunting by the end. I’ve also been trying to focus on form and also getting low.

I also added in something a little odd. Every time I hit the loo, I do 20 squats. This seems weird, but it’s easy to remember and it’s easy to take the like 15 seconds it takes to do 20 squats in the space of the bathroom. I actually even see this being workable to do while out - usually stalls would have the space for this too (except maybe at the airport with luggage). So far so good on this. Mainly motivated from going through my photos based on yesterday’s post trying to get a read on my body and seeing several depressing flat-white-girl-ass photos. No one wants that. Must do more squats.