I realize it's been a while since I posted my fitness routine and it's sometimes nice to document this sort of thing and see how this changes and evolves from season to season and year to year. It's an especially great feeling to be back to *doing* some of my favorite workouts again after my herniated disc injury (while moving my pizza stone out of the oven back in late March). I'm still not back to where I should be pushup-wise but I'm okay with that. I've been gradually easing into the high impact by doing mostly workouts from Cathe's recent Low Impact Series (it's low impact but still HiGH intensity!!). I've begun to sprinkle in the high impact stuff since receiving my 2 newest exercise DVDs (Cathe's To The Max and CrossFire). This past week I even baked my family's favorite challah again (the loaves that caused the spring herniation). I'm proud to say I lifted the stone out of the oven myself with no injury... Very s-l-o-w-l-y, I might add, bending deeply in the knees and keeping the stone as close to my body as possible. You can bet a little prayer was said as well. So here's what I've been doing for my workouts since getting back from vacation:
Week 1
- June 24 - MMA Kickboxing
- June 25 - STS #1
- June 26 - Step Moves & abs (from 4DS Kickbox)
- June 27 - STS #3
- June 28 - Teach yoga
- June 29 - STS #3
- June 30 - rest
Week 2 - I was going to start another round of STS (as you can see from last week but decided to go with variety instead. I'm so glad that I did!! I'm having so much fun!!)
- July 1 - CrossFire (55 min)
- July 2 - Total Body Trisets upper body & abs (56 min)
- July 3 - Kick, Punch & Crunch (68 min)
- July 4 - tried To The Max but it was way too hard for me today - thought i might be getting sick but think im tired so ill plan accordingly the rest of the week and likely take the weekend off - so stopped after 10 minutes and did Slide & Glide/Stretch Express instead (still felt kinda bummed, but oh we'll... there are days like this) (total 42 min)
- July 5 - Teach yoga (60 min)
- July 6 - rest
- July 7 - rest
Week 3
- July 8 - AfterBurn (54 min)
- July 9 - Low Impact Challenge (51 min)
- July 10 - High Reps (65 min)
- July 11 - Cardio Supersets (41 min)
- July 12 - Teach yoga
- July 13 - Total Body Trisets - Total Body Express (49 min)
- July 14 - HiiT 30/30 & abs (36 min)
Week 4
- TODAY July 15 - rest (this morning I had tons of energy and wanted to do something high intensity but I stuck with my plan and rested and I think my body will thank me for it later this week)
- July 16 - Athletic Training (56 min)
- July 17 - Teach yoga (this will be an hour and the kids will be in this class, as will some of their friends)
- July 18 - Body Max 2 Upper body/abs/stretch only (35 min)
- July 19 - Total Body Trisets Lower Body (49 min)
- July 20 - Slide & Glide (52 min) Cardio Fusion - All Step Cardio Premix (48 min) (really didn't want to do Slide & Glide today... needed something different)
- July 21 - To The Max (54 min) rest (swapping my work and rest days with each other)
Week 5
- July 22 - rest To The Max (54 min)
- July 23 - STS Total Body (66 min)
- July 24 - Low Impact Challenge Step (51 min) Teach yoga & Step Moves (44 min)
- July 25 - CrossFire (55 min) MMA Fusion (50 min)
- July 26 - Teach yoga or STS Total Body
- July 27 - if didn't do STS TB yesterday then do it today; if did it then Slide & Glide CrossFire (55 min)
- July 28 - Cardio Supersets (41 min w/o bonus step section; 64 min with it)
What have you been up to in fitness lately? Do you have any favorite summer workouts?
UPDATED with workout changes.






