I’m All Squeezed Out Today

Well, as you may guess from the picture, I did Tracy Effinger’s Squeeze workout today. Actually, I only did the lower body and abs sections of it. She really does squeeze you pretty thoroughly, though sometimes I wish she didn’t say the word “squeeze” quite so often. My idea to add back in some lower body this week with low or no weight seems to be working well for me so far. I had some major delayed onset muscle soreness yesterday (and continuing today) from Monday’s lower body workout, so I know it was effective. It was tough to do part of today’s workout, but I managed. It felt pretty effective as well, since I could really feel my already sore muscles complaining to me as I worked them. Shut up, you whiny muscles!

Unfortunately the ankle is still not up to par, but I didn’t have to modify too much of this workout since so much of it is floor work. I think that means I’ll be doing this workout a lot more often until the ankle is healed. I’ve actually only done Squeeze once before (right after I bought it a couple months ago) which just goes to show that I have way too many workouts if it takes me so long to get back around to this one. I have to admit my Cathe Friedrich workouts get more play than anything else, and I usually feel wimpy if I’m doing a low or no weight workout like this one. It’s perfect with the injury, though, and I highly recommend Tracy’s ab work on this workout. A lot of times I have trouble with Cathe’s ab routines because I’m still pretty weak in that area, but though the ab stuff on Squeeze was challenging, it was completely doable (like I have no idea when I’ll finally be strong enough to do one of Cathe’s pikes--especially pikes on a stability ball--have you seen those?)

Tomorrow it will be back to upper body, with Cathe’s Gym Style Back, Shoulders, & Biceps.

Edited: You wouldn’t believe how many edits I had to make when I came back to reread this today (Thurs. Sept. 13). So many little grammar, typo, or word choice issues. I must have been tired or in a hurry when I wrote this. I think maybe Ewan was climbing on me at the time. Of course, I’m still tired so I probably missed a few more problems.