TGIF

Posted by abby on Feb 26, 2010 in Life | 0 comments

TGIF! This week has flown by, mostly due to the drama over my swollen foot. I haven’t run much this week, but have been taking advantage of the elliptical and doing more yoga. I know a lot of people love, love, LOVE elliptical machines, but I just am not a huge fan. Some elliptical machines I have tried at the gym are just terrible – the motion is so forced and unnatural for me. But the elliptical we bought for our home gym had a very natural stride, and it is adjustable (from 18 to 23 inches). So to take some impact off my foot this week I have been doing 10 minutes on the elliptical (about all the time I can tolerate on it).

This morning I hit the elliptical pretty hard for 10 minutes – did 1.6 miles. Then I hopped on the treadmill and ran (varied between 6.8 and 7.8 mph) for another mile and a half.  After I was nice and warmed up (aka sweaty) from my 22 minutes of cardio I went upstairs to do some yoga – 20 minute Yoga with weights. Not sure how I feel about this program – I would like it to get into the poses faster and do a couple more flows, yet if you have never done yoga with weights you need lots of instruction (possibly more than is provided) and to take it slowly. I found myself wishing I had chosen a different program for today, but it was still a really nice wrap up to the workout.