So, my left foot has gone wacky on me again, leaving me with limited options at the gym (i.e., can’t run, can’t do the stairmaster or stair killer, can’t do my jumpity-jump workouts, can’t kickbox, etc.). I went onto Fitness Magazine’s website and tried out their build-a-workout. Before my foot wigged out on me, I wasn’t too impressed, to be honest – it was mostly weight stuff, not really cardio (I’m a sucker for cardio). Then I tried one workout in their magazine that claimed to fit it all in, in just 20 minutes. Thinking it’d be a good warm-up, I got right into it (pre-foot problem). HOLY COW. I was sweating by the second exercise – and there are really only 8 in the entire workout. I’ll share that one later – by the time I was done with the 20 minutes (I think I went a little over, because I HAD to take breaks between exercises), my heart rate monitor said I’d burned somewhere between 240 and 300 calories.

Once that option was denied to me, I decided to try the Fitness Magazine build-a-workout again. This time, very little jumping, not really cardio, but I took the exercises a bit fast-paced, and found myself sweating it out and not bothering my foot. It says an hour, but I was done in about 40 minutes, and was close to 400 cals burned in that time. It was a great, overall body workout.

Just thought I’d share. I promise I’m taking it easy on my foot this time…well, all right, I’ll admit, I’m taking it easy after doing a jump-aerobics deal and realizing later in the day how dumb that was when having a foot injury…and when my husband asked if I was taking care of my foot or “being stupid” and having to fess up that I was doing the latter.

No, I don’t learn things like this quickly.