More Jillian . . .

Tonight I decided to do BFBM because I needed something that was going to be soft on my knees. My left knee was a little tweaky today, nothing I'm not used to, but I wanted to play it safe and I knew this one wasn't too terribly bad when it came to knees (sure there's a TON of jumping, but that is easy enough to do without causing knee heartache).

I'm surprised at how well I did this time around compared to the last time I did this workout. I guess I must be doing something right :-) But I remain as flexible as a piece of steel. It's funny, when the warm up started and she did the toe touches, um, yeah, that was knee touches and not a centimeter lower. I really need to work on my flexibility. I mean, I know that I have a gut in the way of doing a lot of those moves, but the inability of my hamstrings to let go is quite impressive. I don't think I've ever been this tight.

The only moves that gave me trouble this time were the burpees (come on, my gut is in the way and my legs aren't flexible enough for me to just put my hands on the floor and jump back like that ... it's a PROCESS), the mountain climbers (the same reason, my thighs can't get forward quite enough because of the impediment called my gut) and the oblique twists (ditto on the above). I do have to say though, this time around I actually was able to do the oblique twists, just not as bendy as Jillian would've liked. I know that my upper body is getting stronger because these plank moves aren't killing me as much as they were when we first started doing this. YAY!!! It means, WE ARE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!!!