Today's the start of Week 3 of Jillian Michaels's Making the Cut, designed to lose pounds... but I've actually GAINED. When I started the program I was at 166, this morning I was at 170. I'm still that inch down around the middle though, so can I call it "muscle weight"? :P

Alright, along with the start of Week 3 is the new week of workouts. Away we go... for the record, today is DAY 15:

Circuit 1
Body Ball Pushups: 10 reps
Push-ups: 20 reps
Cable Leg Extensions: 10 reps each leg (20 total)
Step Plyos: 1 min

Circuit 2
Dumbbell Presses on Body Ball: 10 reps alternating arms (5 ea)
Half Crow Push-ups: 5 reps ea leg (10 total)
Harpies: 20 reps
Jump Squats: 10 reps
Warrior Pose w/Tricep Press: 30 secs each leg

Circuit 3
Dips: to failure (9 reps)
Hanging Abs: 15 reps
Static Lunges w/Lateral Shoulder Raise: 10 reps each leg (20 total) @ 10lbs
Side Step Plyos: 1 min

Circuit 4
Pike Push-Ups: 10 reps
Squat & Military Shoulder Press: 10 reps
Dropsies: 8 reps ea leg (16 total)
Jump Rope: 1 min

Circuit 5
Bench Dips w/Feet on Body Ball (utter failure, was supposed to do 20, did 5 due to balance issues)
Bicycle Crunches: 30 reps
Plank Twists: 20 reps each side (40 total)
Boat Pose: 30 secs

43 min total circuit training, 300 calories burned
15 min treadmill run @ 7mph, 174 calories burned
474 total calories burned

Day 12... IN THE CAN! Same workout as Tuesday, not nearly as sore today as I was then though. Body must be adapting, time to change it all up on Monday again. :)

I changed up the order of the exercises a bit because in two separate circuits, someone was using a machine I needed at just the right time. No big deal, I just hadn't had that happen at this gym until now. It's not like there were many people there, this dude just happened to go where I wanted to go.

At any rate, 50 minutes, 349 calories burned.

Today's workout just about caught my legs on fire. :)

I mentioned earlier how sore I was after Monday's workout, with the leg extensions, jump squats, squat thrusts, side lunges, & lunges with shoulder raise... all topped off with the 12mph sprints. I was still sore TODAY from Monday/Tuesday, so guess what? Yup, today was a repeat of Monday. I'm not too bad off tonight, but I'm expecting to be hit in the morning.

I almost forgot, today was DAY 11. Same workout as Monday, but I also managed to do a 5-minute run @ 6.5mph at the end. I would have gone longer but my boss would have had my head if I ran a half hour. Heh.

So that was 40 minutes of circuit training plus 5 minutes of jogging, totalling 368 calories burned.

I thought I was going to be able to jog today, but my boss had me working on a computer all day. I quote: "You need to do what you have to do to get this computer ready by the end of the day. Like, don't work out. I realize you have to eat, but don't work out."

By the time I got the opportunity to jog, it was too late in the day. I would have come back at 4 and left at 4:30. So I didn't. I suppose it was for the best, my legs were still burning from Monday & Tuesday.

Back at it tomorrow!