Okay, so I think it's pretty fair to say that I've let the blog slide lately. Luckily it's been just the blog and not so much my daily workouts but I still wanted to get back into it! I was thinking about it and I think part of it is the lack of a daily regimented workout. I had meant to go directly from The 30 Day Shred into another program but somehow that didn't happen and then I got slammed with work for a week and wha wha-I dropped the ball.
Now, in the interim, I was sorta happy with my daily routine. I've been doing an hour of ab work and an hour on the elliptical. Somehow though, that hour of ab work just wasn't making me sweat as much as I feel like it should. I'm really not sure why. I feel like I'm focusing on proper form and really pushing myself but the sweat just isn't pouring like it does with some of the workout videos I've followed along to in my life. The elliptical, that always work! I won't say that the ab work felt entirely inconsequential, it just wasn't what I would like it to be.
I was going to just do my own thing until after we're back from holiday next month because we're leaving 3 weeks from today (YAY!) and I won't be able to get all the way through any of the workout programs I've been looking at, but oh well. I figure I'll do a mini push through the beginning of two up until we leave and then start over at day one on both once I'm back. I'm sure I'll have lots of good Greek food to work off by the time we're home again anyway.
So starting today, I'll be working through not only Ripped in 30 but also Jillian Michaels Body Revolution! Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm on a major Jillian Michael kick! But The 30 Day Shred was such a good starting point for me and Yoga Meltdown was such a fun aerobic yoga routine that I just figured I'd keep on going. And at 16 pounds down, I'm itching to get back to dropping the weight fast like I was instead of this slower tick through I'm on right now.
So far, I've only completed the Ripped in 30 portion and holy hell, I found the sweat I'd been missing! AND it was fun! I can honestly say that I really enjoyed it! Fingers crossed I can say the same thing about Body Revolution when I get into that here in a little bit! It's so satisfying to see all that sweat, especially since I've been missing it this last week! I had to modify a bit because I won't have the weights to do it properly until tomorrow, but I hated to put it off even another day so I figured I'd go for it anyway. After all, this is just a starting run anyhow. The real go will happen once we're back from holiday.
The 30 minutes I took to do Ripped was about all the alone time Faversham (my adorable new kitten) could handle at the moment so I'm giving myself a breather and waiting for my Giant to come home before I get into Body Revolution. I'm super excited though! Faversham isn't old enough to be trusted to hangout in the room with me while I'm hopping around. He was in here with me while I was doing yoga the other day and he was less than helpful to say the least. He turns into a little devil and I can just see him thinking "Oh, are you balancing your entire body weight on that one arm? Maybe I'll just attack that arm and see how good your concentration is!"
This is not how Faversham reacts to yoga:
