Finished the BodyRock “Booty Lift Workout” aka “Burn Fat And Tighten Your Butt” (second link has routine and reps, first has video). I kept fucking up turning on my timer (again, should get a GymBoss) so I’m rounding to 23 minutes altogether including the wall sits.

Breakdown:

Circuit 1 (30 reps)[approx - 12 minutes?]:
a) 2 walking lunges  I like walking lunges! (Though I should try to have more control with my movements.) Don’t think I’ve ever tried them in here before.
b) 4 backward jumps - Felt kind of disorganized on these. Not sure how high I should’ve jumped or how low to sit.
c) Half Burpee with Jump Up (no push up) - Much, much easier than they used to be for me… however it was damn near impossible to move from these into walking lunges again, going from squat to lunge is not a smooth transition.
Circuit 2: Step Ups and One Leg Elevated Squat (30 reps on each leg) [approx 7 minutes] - We only have rickety chairs, so this was interesting. I couldn’t get very deep on the squats just due to flexibility. Also, I hurt the nerve in the underside of my big toe like a week or 2 ago doing a tight turn barefoot on the hardwood, and that started bugging me (consequently and for whatever it’s worth, I do all my workouts barefoot.)
Circuit 3: One Leg Bridge – 2 sets of 15 reps on each leg [2 minutes] - Yay, more pelvic thrusts. These were kind of easy, but I’ve always been good with the thrusting. Oh, yeah.
Circuit 4: One Leg Wall Sit - 2 sets of 30 seconds per side - I’m digging isometric stuff to push myself harder. Seriously, leg, you’re not going to fall off if you continue to hold me up for 7 more seconds. You probably won’t even be sore later. Wuss.

I can’t figure out how to jam it into that sentence but I also did a 40 second (unless it was 30 second and my memory is inflating my ego) chair sit mid-day, which was also pretty cool. I keep working out and feeling like I’m going to feel it the next day, and then the next day, I’m like “meh.”

Which, though I have to remind myself that soreness is not the goal of working out, makes me wonder if I could/should push myself harder. The problem is that I have a high pain threshold, a very strong will and often weirdly massive strength (one of the girls on one of my high school sports teams used to call me “the Bionic Woman”) so I’m worried that I don’t know the line between going for it and losing it and I’ll hurt myself.

Anyway, um. Going to pick a yoga vidya and take a shower, etc. My stupid knee still feels funny which is why I picked this workout (not too much jumping).