Let’s see. I feel like I have a lot to say and I’m sure I’m going to forget something but oh well.

Just stole Joan’s workout (muahaha). I am tired.

POP Pilates: Long Lean Legs Workout Hard! Especially the Prisoner moves and the chair at the end.
POP Pilates: Butt Blaster  For some reason, this didn’t seem that tough to me. I liked all the bridgework though. Lots of pelvic thrusts (for Valentine’s Day?)
POP Pilates: Long Lean Legs Workout Less hard the second time around… except for the chair. I had to try to convince myself that I would survive staying in chair - not entirely succesfully.
Isometric Plank Circuit [1 minute on / 20 seconds off x 3] I’d actually never done an isometric plank/plank hold before. My timer was screwing up (I really need to spring for a GymBoss) which gave me a longer break before circuit 1 and 2 and circuit 3 was weak but I think that’s partially because I experimented with doing it with straight arms instead of on elbows.
POP Pilates: Stretching for Flexibility I though I’d done Cassey’s stretching video before but I think it was not this one. Good news - I can practically sit upright with my legs spread, which I could not do when I started working out. I’m also hoping to work on getting back to being able to to bridge like I used to - I did it on my head like I did when I was able to do it back in high school.

Didn’t work out yesterday other than my push-ups and squats though I have been less than diligent about the squats. This may partially be because I apparently did squat off-kilter yesterday night and apparently fucked up my right knee. Then Mister thought I was out of commission and stole the bedroom to do a bazillion burpees (got him started on those, heh) right when I was going to go do Fitness Bender sets.

I thought my knee had gotten over it until it started bugging me again partway through the routine I just did. Hm. So I am trying METH (kind of). I have a hot water bottle on it because that seems much more appropriate than ice for a muscle or tendon pull and my feet on the coffee table. Also that site is the ugliest, hardest to read shit ever… hello, Readability). Given that the workout I was going to do (well, that plus this one - though I need to figure out something to do about weights because I only have some small handweights and Mister’s Big Annoying Dumbells) has about 50 burpees, maybe it’s just as well that I got workout-blocked.

Despite not being as regular as I’d like about the bathroom squats, I have been trying to figure out how to do/train to do a proper full-depth pistol squat (watched this video yesterday - that guy is adorable). My main problem is strength once I get past like 45 degrees… it’s really hard to not shove your knees forward. So I’m experimenting. Let’s set a goal to be able to do at least a couple by next week. Yes.

Also, in the before and during I posted earlier I totally forgot to label my greatly diminished saddle bags (thank God). Those were definitely one of the key items that made me realize my shape was getting out of control as I do not usually have extra extra padding there - luckily, as they were one of the last things to put on, they were also one of the first to come off. Now I just have normal level saddle bags, which I can live with.

Really need to bathe and stuff.