Oweeee!

After taking a too-long break from regular exercise, I decided to get myself back into the habit. Monday I pulled out my favorite toning video by Tami Lee Webb and did part of the I Want Those Buns segment.

About the video: Before making the video, Tami went into a lab and did a bunch of exercises while monitering her muscles electronically. She only included on the video the exercises that proved most effective. So what you get is a short workout that is highly effective. It's a series of squats (picture using a public restroom without touching the seat), plies (something between a ballerina and a sumo wrestler), and lunges. Youch.

It's a 15-minute workout and I did just about half of it. I woke up yesterday morning just sore enough to know I'd worked out and feeling pleased that maybe I hadn't fallen as badly out of shape as I thought. However, as the day went on, I got progressively more sore, and by last night I was hobbling around here like a little old lady.

Yesterday afternoon I decided to even things out by doing an upper body workout, so now I'm sore all over. The up side is that this motivates me to keep up because I know that once my muscles start getting stronger, I can do this with no soreness. But once I slack off, I have to go back to square one.