Chug-along-chica!

Great yoga class today.  My legs are totally shaking.

A lady came up to me afterwards and commented on how well I did the moves BEFORE she asked me how far along I was.  I liked that.  It made me feel like really giving my all in every class.  Everybody is always staring at me anyways (or it seems that way) now that I am getting more obvious.  I'd rather they notice that I am doing the moves really well than that I look slightly larger every single class.  *Sigh*  I don't know why I struggle so much with feeling yucky about getting a huge tummy during pregnancy.  Where else is the baby going to go?  I'm a shrimpy person--it has to go out, and out, and OUT.

Ug.  I did my "body pump" class today, which is the killer one with the weights.  On of the 2 instructors was 8 months pregnant.  And she was a beast.  Everytime it would start to really hurt (after 5 billion reps) she would get this crazy look in her eye, like she really enjoys pain.   My legs are really really weak now.  Actually, have you ever done weights until your limbs are useless?  That is where my legs are.  They buckle without my permission.  In fact, I had a huge embarrassing moment as I was putting away my weights.  I lost my balance and crashed into one of the few guys in the class.  I shall burn in shame forever whenever I recall it.

I'm not really that happy with my exercise this week.  My kids have been sick, so I haven't been able to go to the gym as much as is recquired.  I'll get a class tomorrow, I am sure, but still, that's only 3 in a week.  Ideally, I'd like to have at least 2 weight classes and 3 yoga classes a week.  Plus I should walk.  I really should.  I should walk in the evenings.  However, I don't.  I need a buddy...and it would be best if she had a cattle prod.

Well, would ya believe that I am just the teesiest bit sore?  And by that I mean that I can't even walk normally.  If I had my quads all surgically removed and had to walk straight-legged for the rest of my life, it would look a lot like how I am walking today. 

I opted out of my yoga class because there is a whole song (4-5 min.) where you stay in a wide squat position for the entire time and never come back up.  You do all these crazy things with your arms to distract your brain, but the workout is that your legs just burn and burn and burn and you never straighten them until it's over.  I just couldn't do that today.

The mission today was to get over some of this soreness and possibly get in some cardio.  I biked for 20 min (which didn't hurt as much as I thought--it is the impact that kills, I guess), then I did the elliptical for 20 min., then I walked on the treadmill at a fast-ish pace for my broken, shrimpy legs, which was about 3.5 mph.  My heart rate was between 130-140 for the whole workout and it felt pretty good.  Afterwards I stretched a lot.

So, 60 min. of exercise and 15 min. of stretching.  Soreness is improved, hmmm...30 %, I 'd say.  That's a good start.  Happy weekend, all.