How To MAKE DO.

OMG. Zuzana is becoming my go-to A** Kicker Girlfriend. I'm sharing this screen shot because THIS was the move that forced me to MAKE DO. Let me explain.

If you recall in my blathering vlogs from this week, I forgot to pack my resistance bands and although I did pack my TRX, I really have to get back in and train with the TRX certified trainer back in Chicago because I'm not as familiar with all the moves you can do on that system. It's KILLER but you don't want to wing it and waste your time. So-- in the near future, after I've become more familiar with that, I can make up some more killer circuits. This week, I was having to really get my creative juices flowing in the hotel room.

Today, I WAS SO NOT FEELING THE MOJO to do a workout at night. I was NOT FEELING IT KIDS. Some of you think I am crazy motivated all the time. Not so. But---I recognized that the Bad Kelly was trying to push Good Motivated Kelly DOWN and once I saw that, I put that biotch back in her place. I thought about my favorite jeans and about my orange bikini and....I got my workout clothes on. Pretty much once I get my workout clothes on, IT'S ON. So, I looked up a Zuzana workout on BodyRock.TV. I found this  one and was all ready to GO:

I previewed the moves, wrote them down and then started with a warmup. I did 20 reps of each move and then, got to the above pictured wall squat and when I started lifting my left leg GREAT BALLS OF FIRE I felt like a knife went through my outer thigh. NO IDEA what I did but I had to get up and do all kinds of weird stretches in my room to rid the pain. Then I was pissed. I was pissed because I knew it would be foolish to do the same moves again (and risk an injury like my shoulder one that ruined me for almost 6 weeks earlier this year) and hurt my leg, but I wanted to not have a half-a**ed workout. So- I MADE DO.

I thought about what I could do with NO EQUIPMENT that wouldn't push it with my shoulder or push it with my leg, so I randomly added the following:

• Jog in place for 1 minute
• Kneeling "Pizza Cutter" kicks a la Cathe's Butts N. Guts
• Kneeling Rear Straight Kicks (you can see some of this in the video montage from this workout below:
• What is the move when you are on all fours and you like RUN with your legs, while your hands are in pushup position? The name escapes me. 
• Standing straight leg swings, 20 each leg. 
• 100 Walking Lunges
• Close Legged Squats
• Wide Legged Squats
• Plie Squats
• Plyo Plie Jumps (16)
• Taebo straight legged side raise
• Taebo front kick
• Taebo Rear Kicks
• Taebo Style Front Machine Gun Kicks
• Roundhouse kicks
• Jog in place 1 minute.

In total, after doing ONE set of the devil I mean Zuzana's workout above followed by 20 reps of each move here, I had burned 250 calories in about 38 minutes. Not bad. And even better because at about 110 calories or so, after doing Zuzana's workout and only getting through the one circuit, I had "an excuse" to stop.

NO WAY. 

Funny, here is another post today from Bret Contreras on the same topic~ you can do a killer circuit workout with NO equipment and no gym. NO EXCUSES:

CLICK HERE TO READ HIS POST ON HIS FAVORITE NO EQUIPMENT WORKOUT AT HOME.

And CLICK HERE to read Fit Lizzy's blog post titled "Fit Lizzio's Weight Loss Tips"-- wish I'd had this sensibility in my head a couple years ago!! WERD UP.

Here is proof of my madness:

Also- here is a random observation. Where is everyone this week? My blogworld has had tumbleweeds flying through it. I mean, I'm not that kind of blogger that like uses SEO tricks to get traffic and worries about how many people are reading me, I've NEVER been that kind of blogger BUT I do certainly notice when it seems like the world took a vacation. Did I miss something? 

Anyway, I hope y'all are having a great week. I'm very proud of myself this week for MAKING DO, I head home tomorrow morning and am very psyched to see my new kettlebells and my new UGIFit ball thing. COOLNESS. ;-) 

QUESTION OF THE DAY: Do you watch TV "live" or do you DVR everything?