Day 4 of Challenge!

Wow am I on an exercise high right now! I decided to give the whole pilates thing a little break and try something a little more hardcore. I had heard of, but never tried, bodyrock.tv so I thought today would be the day.

The video I chose was titled, "Real Time Challenge- Legs, A**, Inner & Outer Thighs." And I thought it would be perfect since I haven't done a work out that focused on these areas specifically.

Do you see how long it is?? I missed that part when I decided on the video!

The workout started out difficult, but I thought I could totally handle it since it was only like 17 minutes anyway. I mean, 3 months ago I had a 24 hour labor that was med-free (that story will be in another post), so I could squat and lunge for 17 minutes!

The format was 30 seconds of one challenging move, and then 30 seconds of jump rope. Repeat.
Uh, I am in a nursery and the ceiling isn't super high, but I gave the rope a go as you can see here!

Well, I failed. Haha. So, I ran in place every time the instructor jumped rope to keep my heart rate up. And I noticed that I was working up a sweat, which was great because I haven't really done much cardio since I found out I was pregnant last March.

After I had been going for a while, I realized it had been longer than 17 minutes, so I quickly checked the video and sure it enough, it had been 25! The video was 43:58 seconds long! How did I miss that? I knew I wanted to bring the level of my workouts up, but not that quickly! Ha But I decided to finish it because I already felt committed and did not want to let any of you down. :)

Let me just say I will be feeling the work in my lower region over the next few days!

I felt so full of energy afterwards that I quickly whipped up some Asian style noodles for lunch. I definitely try to cook from scratch as much as possible and usually do not use a recipe, just try and see if things work together (learned that from my mother!), and it was actually really good and felt light on my stomach.

Chicken, fresh vegetables, and vermicelli noodles. Yum!

So, overall another successful day of my challenge! My husband has been very helpful with our daughter while I worked out the past few days, but I know that I will continue to carve out some time to exercise even if I have to incorporate my baby in my squats!

Bring on Day 5!