Bill's coming home tonight and not sure what are plans are so got up early to exercise. Did the 20 minute Turbo Jam as I hadn't done that in a while.

No running today (since they did yesterday), so just had to do a DVD. It's still kind of rainy so didn't want to go outside today. Just did the 20 minute TJ.

Got up this morning to do the 40 minutes TJ DVD. Decided to sleep a bit longer, and just did the 20 minute one. Oh well, but it was something.

Should have gotten up and exercised, but just couldn't. Therefore I knew I'd have to do it later. I got out of work early and Bill and I went to an early dinner. Finally about 8pm I said I had to do something. I only wanted to do a 20 minute workout and I tried to find something on ExerciseTV, but nothing appealed to me. Therefore I fell back to the old standby of the TJ 20 minute workout. As I got going with it, I felt really good. I could have easily done more, but I have the long run tomorrow morning in less than 12 hours so I figured that was enough.

Had the GOP meeting tonight so my plan was to get up and do a 40 minute workout. Just didn't happen. Only did the 20 minutes TJ...and not the most enthusiasticly as I should have.

Although I "slept in" til 6am this morning, I really struggled getting up to exercise. I went to bed early as I was tired from the last two days of early rises, so I got about 8.5 hours of sleep and I was just so groggy getting up. I wanted to try to do a 40 minute workout...but just couldn't get going.

Reluctantly finally got up at 6:30am to do a 20 minute workout (couldn't delay to the evening--have dinner out with the running group at King & I tonight, plus the run tomorrow morning so I didn't want to workout too close together). Popped in the 20 minute TJ DVD...my old fallback when I want something I don't have to think about too much, but can get a good sweat on. Did the workout, but really struggled. I was so fatigued, and I'm still sore in the legs/butt from Monday. Kind of pathetic workout, but done, nonetheless.

Back home now and Bill's recovering from the marathon, but now has come down with a terrible chest cold. We have some errands we have to run after work for LDD, so I got up to exercise right away. Since I did the gym workouts for several days, I just went back to the TJ 20 DVD to get it done.

We're leaving for Little Rock later so I got up early to exercise this morning. Just did the TJ 20 min DVD as it's my fallback when I want to just workout and get a good sweat going, but not think too much as I've gotten pretty familiar with this one.

Going to dinner with Mom tonight so got up to exercise. Just did the 20 minute TJ.

Bill's off again for another week away, so I again waited til evening when he was gone to work out. It's been pouring rain all day today, so I didn't want to go out.

Did the 20 min TJ DVD, wearing both the weighted gloves and my new ankle weights. Probably could put a little more weight into those ankle weights. I felt really good when that was done, so I popped in the BL DVD and did the Cardio 2 10-minute workout also.

So, I really want to get back down in weight, so with Bill gone, I'm going to try to step up my exercise a bit. Got up and did the TurboJam 20 this morning. Then had Anna tonight. I asked her to focus on abs a bit more as we've only done a bit of those in recent weeks. So we did a variety of ab/core exercises, in between shoulder push downs, lunges, pushups on the alternating arms on the medicine ball, rows while tilting forward and kicking a leg back, one arm alternating rows.

Tonight's a dinner and movie night with some of the running girls, so I knew I had to exercise this morning...even though I didn't want to.

Therefore I did the TJ 20 minute workout as it's familiar and won't require too much concentration since I've been doing it so much. It's still a good workout though, always end up sweating by the end.

It's Saturday and it's cold and very windy. No running group for me.

Did my 20 minute Turbo Jam DVD, then wanted to do a bit more. Switched to ExerciseTV and found a 10 minute upper body strength one--unfortunately it used the stability ball alot (which I didn't have out) so I did just about 5 minutes of it with modifications. Then I switched to a butt one--Bootylicious Buns (11 minutes). Ooooh, that one literally kicked my butt. It was short, but intense and focused just on the butt, with some quads too.

Woke up early this morning so I decided to exercise, even though we have Anna tonight. Did the 20 minute TJ. Then had Anna at night--a good overall weight workout again with arms, legs, back, and core.

It's still bitterly cold out like it's been the last few days, so I'm definitely not running with the group. Decided to do the 20 minute Ab workout from Turbo Jam, then I did the regular 20 minute cardio Turbo Jam workout. Good combo workout to get something a bit longer in, but with good variety.

It's the GOP Holiday Party tonight and I know I won't want to do anything after that, so another morning DVD. Back to cardio more again, so did the 20-minute Turbo Jam one. Getting better at this one and realizing all the changes without voice prompts so that I can bump up the intensity a bit as I don't have to watch the TV so closely for changes and I can just get into it and switch movements fluidly.

Monday morning and we have a GOP meeting tonight. Therefore got up this morning to do a DVD. Did the Turbo Jam 20 min workout.

Got up early again and thought I'd do the 20-min Turbo Jam again. Since yesterday was the first time in a while, I missed a few exercises as I was just trying to learn the routine. I was a bit better today as I'm getting used to it. It's a good, short workout.

I decided to get a little more active today as I've been just sitting around and pretty bored alot. I got up early and did the 20-min Turbo Jam DVD. Haven't done this in a while, but it really worked me out good and I broke a good sweat.

Then in the evening I did some good crunches of various types on the Bosu.

Again, still not quite ready to run yet, don't want to strain myself before the 10k this weekend.

Decided to do some of my new TurboJam stuff. Walked up and down the stairs for a few minutes to warm up, then did the 20 minute TurboJam workout, then the other 16 minute Burn workout. Finished with some pushups and plank for 60 seconds.