Saturday Musings

Boy, I haven't posted in several days! I think I've been a bit too busy playing with Facebook, which I only recently joined. I've been adding friends from the Cathe.com forums and playing with them online a lot.

I'm nervous but excited about starting my 12 weeks of Body for Life on Monday. I hope I can do it! I hope I at least do better than I did with the South Beach Diet. (Did I even make it through 2 days on that? I don't think so.) At least with BFL, I can have carbs.

The Body for Life exercise plan intrigues me. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I'll be doing weights, alternating upper & lower body. My concern about that is my knees. My physical therapist has not yet authorized me to do lower body work (aside from what I do for therapy). I'll ask him about it on Monday, I guess. Maybe I'll take my book with me to therapy. Dude probably already thinks I'm a weirdo anyway. I figure if I can't do weights yet, perhaps I can at least do some good floor work for the time being. Then on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday it's cardio, but get this--only 20 minutes of aerobics. It's supposed to be HIIT, though (High Intensity Interval Training). I'm still wondering how I'll do this properly with the knee issues as well. I might try using certain workout DVDs (such as Cathe Friedrich's Low Max or Amy Bento's Kickbox Xtreme) which are low impact or can be modified to low impact and include higher intensity intervals. Then Sundays are free days, which is normally my rest day anyway.

I'm sure I can adapt this plan to my limitations, I just hope those limitations don't hinder my progress.