I’d Better Look Good in This Dress

I used the dress as motivation today while doing Cathe’s Gym Style Chest & Triceps workout. As I was doing tough tricep kickbacks with the resistance band I just kept my mind on the dress. It’s nice to have some definite goal in mind while working out. It inspired me not to cheat on my workout but to push myself all the way. That was a little tough today because I was still sore from yesterday’s workout.

Yesterday I did Kimberly Spreen’s Amplify Your Strength From Within DVD, which is a non-weighted workout. It’s advertised as a total body workout, but it definitely emphasized lower body. I had to modify a lot because of my injured ankle. (By the way, I still haven’t seen the doctor though I was supposed to yesterday--insurance confusion--will update soon). Every time she did lunges or side lunges, I did squats or plié squats--I had to be careful even with the plié squats. The workout also included some side planks which I had to do on my knees to spare the ankle. I was worried with all my modifying that maybe it wasn’t effective enough, but I burned 300 calories (not bad for a non-cardio workout) and I could really feel muscle soreness today in my quads, glutes, inner thighs, obliques, and my lower back. I’m not sure what it was that hurt the lower back. I’m always particularly pleased to have inner thigh soreness since I’m eager to tone those inner thighs!

Tomorrow I’ll either be doing the lower body and core sections of Tracy Effinger’s Squeeze DVD or a Pilates workout.

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