Physical Therapy Hurt Today

I went to physical therapy this morning and decided that was my workout for the day. I was scheduled to do lower body today, anyway. They put me up to 3 sets of 15 on my exercises--leg press, seated hamstring curls, leg abductions to the side and then standing, pulling my leg back (don't know what that's called). I also do this thing where I have to balance on one leg at a time on a little dome they call a "porcupine" because it has little spines all over it (but it's soft rubber so you're not getting stabbed or anything). I also stand on a short step and bend one knee lowering the other heel to the floor. I also have to do that one with 3 sets of 15 on both sides.

So they work my muscles with all that and then they did something called "Russian stim" which was downright painful. They put the little electrical stimulation pads on my quad muscles and cranked the sucker up. Normally when I get stimulation, they wrap it in a warm or cold wrap around my knees and it's a pretty comfortable amount of stimulation, often set around 12 or lower (the intensity goes up as the numbers go higher). But with the Russian stim they put it on 24! I had to tighten my quads as they were zapped all to heck--each leg was alternately slammed. Yowza. That's part of why I decided I was done with my lower body work after that. At least I got a bit of a massage and stretch as well.

Did I mention my PT said last week that I'm very flexible? That was a big shock--I've never thought of myself as flexible. Apparently it's my hips that are most flexible. I told her maybe it had to be due to giving birth to two big babies or something.

Tomorrow is supposed to be HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) cardio. I'm either going to do Amy Bento's Kickbox Xtreme or her Advanced Step Challenge II--to make that one HIIT I'll have to alternate step combos with segments from her Power Up segment or something. I just love that workout so I'd like to figure out a way to do it.