Today's goal is track food and workout for 30 mins after work. I am sore from the 10 min DVDs and yesterday was 'rest'.

Another great quote.

Today I had a very important appt with my son and it went great, so I am very happy. Didn't find time for walk or run due to the appt, but the weather here has been incredible (like a Winter heat wave!), so I'm going to gear up to walk/run tomorrow and spend as much time outdoors as possible. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to finally be feeling better (little by little).

But today, planks and assisted pull-ups at home, to try to keep progressing on those. Feeling sore from only doing a few each day, so that's good.

Did 2 miles on treadmill went fast and jogged some.

Sounds like everyone did well today.

I went to the "Metabolic Conditioning" class at the Fitness studio near me. I really enjoyed this one! We did a short bit of basic warmups, then two sets of exercises, then planking, and then stretching. Each set of exercises was repeated three times and each set had five exercises, so we did set one exercises three times, had a three minute break and then did set two exercises three times. Set one had us doing each of the exercises as fast as we could do them for 30 seconds then 10 seconds rest, then the next exercise in the set for 30 seconds, 10 seconds rest, then the next, etc until we had circled through all 5 exercises three times. We just went from the last exercise of the group again to the first exercise with the 10 seconds rest. After the three minutes rest between sets, we did set two exercise, but these were 40 seconds each, with the 10 seconds rest. Again we circled through them three times. At the beginning and then during the three minute break, we gathered up all the equipment we needed for the exercise set next. For one exercise we used a kettleball, for another we used a dumbell, and for a third we used resistance bands. Most of the exercises were body weight only, some with the option of using a dumbell if we wanted to. For the planking it was 10 second plank, then 5 seconds rest, 8 times. Then a very short rest period and repeat. It felt harder to me than just holding the plank that long. They had fast music playing through the whole thing that encouraged people to do the exercises quickly, plus the leaders moved quickly. There were 14 students and 3 trainers helping us to do the exercises correctly and offering alternatives for those that needed them. I was happy that I was able to do most of the exercises somewhat and basically able to keep up, but the exercises were quite hard and I will have to work really hard to get better at them. I was about in the middle of ability among the people there, not the worst, but far from the best.

I certainly got a workout in that hour!