Saturday Morning Sweat

Yesterday was actually a great day/not so great day all rolled in one. After having a few too many drinks on Thursday, it was slow going Friday morning. But a turkey sandwich, several glasses of water and some gingerade Kombucha saved my life. I spent the rest of the day babysitting at the barn in the beautiful weather. I also got to ride two horses and lamented about how out of riding shape I am. I'm surprised I can walk today because I was sore after two long rides. 
I was so excited to come home from the barn and hang out with Ryan when my car died... AGAIN. I noticed white steam coming from my car, decided pulling over on the highway was not in my best interest and got off at the next exit where my car was billowing white steam from the engine. I spent the next 45 minutes on the side of the road in my riding pants and boots... FML.
But, alas, its saturday afternoon and my car is A-ok. After a good night's sleep, I woke up, had some peanut butter toast with honey and strawberries. I read my favorite blogs and drank some coffee (by now this should sound familiar, I'm a routine person) and decided to craft a workout to do outside in the sunshine!
Women's Health Magazine has a page of 'finisher' workouts, designed to give an extra challenge at the end of a workout. They propose 5 different choices, but why not roll them all into one workout?
Here's the workout:
- Part 1: perform each move for 20s, rest for 10s, move on to next move
-- Squats
-- Burpees
-- Mountain Climbers
-- Lunge and skip (do a round on each leg)
- Part 2: perform 12 reps of each move (10lb weights)
-- Deadlift
-- Bicep curl
-- Squat
-- Shoulder Press
- Part 3: place two cones (or in my case, flower pots) about 25 yards apart
-- Sprint 6 round-trips, 90s rest
-- Sprint 3 round-trips, 90s rest
*Do parts 1, 2 and 3 three times*
-Part 4: 12 reps of each move then repeat x3
-- Plie squat & upright row
-- Static skinny squat & lateral raise
--Lunge right
--Tricep press
-- Lunge left
I was in the mood to take my time with my workout this morning, so this took me about 50 minutes, including a 5 minute warmup.


The rest of the day was spent in blissful relaxation. I had some vegan chicken salad from Basil Bandwagon on Ezekial pita for lunch... SO good. Then I had some steamed veggies and brown rice with some drunken noodles, pad thai and crispy duck from a local Thai restaurant. I absolutely had seconds :).


I'm spending the rest of the night relaxing, contemplating doing homework and figuring out how to work this blog... anyone know how to make posts in individual pages. I want to create pages of workouts so I can store them neatly in my 'workouts' page and not take up so much space in the posts... any help would be appreciated!


Happy Saturday!