So, you have an hour with no kids, what do you do? Laundry, dishes, cook, read, chill out on the computer, etc.??? I don’t. At least not now. I take the opportunity to squeeze in as much exercise as possible, although, it looks a lot different than it used to. Any strength work I do is more like yoga than with heavy weights and my cardio training is just plain LOW.

Warm-up:

3 sets of medicine ball squats

followed by sets of a flow sequence going from Plank to Chaturanga back up to Plank to Down Dog (Oh My Gosh, these KILL)

followed by side plank to down dog to side plank

Work:

30 minutes on bike with intervals getting up into the 150′s (don’t laugh!!!, 150 used to be my aerobic zone now it is my interval zone since I haven’t been on my bike in almost 4 months)

Cool Down:

YOGA. Flow. (Random and not in order)

Warrior 1

Warrior 2

Warrior 3

Chair Pose (with twists)

High Lunges with twists

Crane

What do I feel like at the end of the day?

Great. Mildly tired, but, great. I have found that now that yoga is “in my body”, I must continue to do yoga for a happy back. I can’t put my finger on what is happening on a daily basis in my back {my lumbar spine has general pain}, but, geez, by the end of the day, I better be doing some kind of yoga or I will be in pain by the morning. Also, I should add that when given an hour now, I’d rather be doing yoga than anything else! (note to self: must cut down chocolate consumption!)

If you have only one hour for exercise, how would you spend it?