Day 3 of The Hormone Diet Exercise Prescription-Strength Day #2

It was a struggle to get myself off the couch and to the fitness center this morning.  My muscles that weren't so sore yesterday are a bit more achy today.  But, I forced myself to go.  I figured I'd do it before work, so I couldn't complain I was too tired after work.  This, of course, has me worrying already about Thursday when I have early and late appointments.  I may have to get up very early if I want to work out before work.

Anyway....off I went to the gym.  It was Strength Day for the legs and core.   After walking on the treadmill for five minutes, I did two sets each of crunches, back extensions, and leg lifts with an exercise ball between the legs (this is pretty challenging, if you've never tried it).  Actually, the back extensions were supposed to be over the exercise ball, too, but after wobbling a bit on the first try, I decided to take it easy on myself and do them on the floor.

Then I did lunges with bicep curls, squats, bent-leg dead lift with toe raises, hamstring curls on the exercise ball (that one was pretty challenging, too), and some planking.  I'm not using very heavy weights, but I'm still feeling it.  I was a little shaky afterwards, so I'm guessing I worked those muscles pretty hard.

Tomorrow is a cardio or yoga day.  I'm thinking yoga would be good to stretch out all these muscles.

In total, it took me about 30 minutes.  I like the short workouts.  It makes you go ahead and push because you know it won't last that long.