She's got SuperFeet, SuperFeet, She's SuperFeetayyyyy

So my doctor appointments yesterday were no fun.  Nope.  No fun at all.  The podiatrist had no helpful solution for me.  He said I had good running shoes and very good inserts, so he did not have anything to recommend.  (By the way, I use the green Superfeet inserts in my running shoes.)

He said the small muscles in my feet probably just get tired.  Whaaaaa?  But why are they tired all of a sudden?  I’ve been active since the age of 4.  I played soccer for 13 years.  How do I have weak feet???  (If any readers can explain this to me, please shoot me an email!)

Walking out of the appointment I learned these things.

• Wear supportive lace-up shoes all the time – even at home.  This is bad.  I’m barefoot as much as possible!
• Pick up things with my toes to strengthen the muscles.
• Plyometrics (such as my Kirsch workout) are hard on my feet.  (He didn’t say not to do them though!)
• Increasing my running by adding one more running day per week broke the renowned 10% rule of running.

So I’m going to look up stretches and strengthening exercises, ice my feet, wear shoes more often, and purchase new running shoes and supportive cross trainers.  I have been doing all my cross training in my old running shoes, but that’s probably not the best thing for me.

Enough of that.  Just thinking about  that appointment made me mad.  Moving on…

When I was trying to let my feet rest last week, I swam laps in a pool a few days, did some pilates, and worked out at home two mornings.  I wanted to share my at/home workouts with you.

I used all this...

The routine has 4 Tracy Anderson YouTube videos with supersets in-between.  Tracy and I really had a lot of bonding time!  I don’t normally like her workouts since she thinks women should never strength train with more than 3 lbs., but I guess it works for her gorgeous clients, like Jessica Simpson and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Nevertheless, the workouts are a good change from my normal style.

The Routine

• Video 1: Warm Up – just followed video and did my own warm up with weighted punches and dynamic stretching
• *Insert first superset here (rest 20 seconds, repeat, rest 20 seconds, and repeat one more time)
• Video 2: Tracy Anderson Arms Webisode – It gets hard with weights!
• Video 3: Tracy’s Standing Ab Quickie – I gave my arms a break by throwing in this clip.  The goal was to keep my heart rate up.
• **Insert second superset here (rest 20 seconds, repeat, rest 20 seconds, and repeat one more time)
• Video 4: Tracy Anderson’s Arms Quickie – It’s another burner, but I really like this one.
• I finished up with this arm set to really fine-tune the muscles before stopping to stretch

 Tuesday Arm Superset #1

- 15 Push Ups,   15 Flies with 8-lb Dumbbell,   12-15 Tricep Skull Crushers with 8-lb Dumbbell

Tuesday Arm Circuit #2

- 15 Push Ups,   12 (each side) Resistance Band Overhead Tricep Extension

You can feel strong with 1 pounders...

Thursday Arm Circuit #1

- 15 Rows with Resistance Band,   15 Reverse Fly with Band,   15 (each side, alternating) Curls with 8-lb Dumbbell

Thursday Arm Circuit #2

- 12 (each side) Cross Pull with Band,   12 (each side) Curls with Band

Have a great weekend everyone!  Come back Monday and tell me the best thing you did!

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