End My Week With An Injury

Not a good way to finish off my week, but I seem to have injured myself yesterday..... I'll get to that when I tell you about yesterday's workout, but first I need to record Thursdays.

Thursday:
Medal of Honor Abs Wo from bodyrock (modified, of course)
Intervals of 10/50, repeat the circuit 3 times.  I added an extra exercise into the circuit to keep the heartrate going between the right and left plank exercises and to make it an 18 minute workout.

1. Leg Elevated Plank w/ Hip Circle
2. Super Star Body Spring
3. Elbow Plank/ Side Plank Lift -left
4. 4-Square Jumps
5. Elbow Plank/ Side Plank Lift- right
6. Leaping Mtn. Climbers

Some new, creative exercises in this workout.  I really liked the leg elevated plank with hip circle and seemed to feel it deep in my abs the next day.  The planks were kind of fun too but changing regular mtn. climbers to leaping mtn. climbers did not improve them one bit:).

Friday:
I wanted a longer, but less intense workout this day.  I looked through some of my past workouts and found one that seemed to fit the bill.  It was a 15/45 interval workout and the circuit was repeated 4 times for a 24 minute workout.  The exercises were:

1. Weighted Over the Chair Kick/Duck Under
2. Swimmer Push Ups
3. Prisoner Sumo Squat w/ Kick
4. Walk Out Push UPs
5. Bench Jump Overs
6. 1-Leg Push Up/Tricep Dip Twist

Well, it was during the last round of bench jump overs yesterday that I caught my pinky toe on the bench and sprained or broke it.  It swelled up and turned black and blue.  I am also hobbling around when I walk..... pretty pathetic to be laid up by a pinky toe!  Since my toe was still feeling pretty bad this morning, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do much of a workout.  I figured I should try to stay away from as much jumping as possible so I chose the Grand Theft Booty wo from bodyrock.tv.  This workout did have pulsing snow boarder jumps but they really didn't bother my toe.  Surprinsingly though, the one-leg pistol squat work did cause my toe to scream a few times..... when I'd lose balance and really roll over onto it.  Overall, this was a pretty easy workout, even after adding a 4th round.  The pulsing snowboarder jumps did start to burn pretty good towards the end of the interval, but that was really the only exercise in this circuit that caused my muscles to burn or my heartrate to elevate.  Despite the lack of intensity, I still liked the workout.  There were some new exercises, and I always enjoy that.  I especially liked the pistol squat/pike press move (didn't care for the other pistol squat move as much because I kept losing my balance).  The pistol squat work really worked my balance and mental concentration, something that my workouts often neglect.  I was also surprised to find myself able to do full pistol squats on my left leg several times... YEAH!  I think I also may have done a full pistol on my right once, so improvement there as well.  Here is a breakdown of this workout:
10/30 Repeat 4x's

1. Pulsing Snow Boarder Jumps
2. Pistol Squat w/ Kick-rt
3. Pistol Squat w/Kick-left
4. Shelf Butt Exercise
5. Pistol Squat/ 1-Leg Pike Press-rt
6. Pistol Squat/ 1-Leg Pike Press -left