Early Birthday Loot

I got my birthday presents on Saturday. We're planning to go to the Bakersfield Highland Games this weekend so we decided to begin the birthday celebration early. I got a Bosu ball, a heartrate monitor, a 6-pound medicine ball, weightlifting gloves and some cute exercise clothes. The Bosu is totally fun. You can bounce off of it and fly across the room. It's really fun for step aerobics. You can add a little bounce every time you step on it. I used the ball and the HRM and the medicine ball and did Super Cardio (Death) Mix. I burned just over 560 calories according the the HRM. The bosu made the step segments really fun and the stuff with the ball is a lot harder when you actually have a medicine ball to do it with. Today I'm doing Step Blast but I don't think I'll be able to use the Bosu with it since Cathe's step videos use longer step unlike most of the firm videos that either use the Fanny Lifter or the Firm Box, which is longer but they don't really use the whole thing (or they use the incline and the Bosu would work fine for that.) I will use the HRM though and see how ridiculously high my heartrate goes during the blasts.

The really great news of the week is that we bought two new snails for the fishtank on Friday and they're both still alive. I guess we solved the copper problem. Sometime later this week, we'll probably get a couple more and a new starfish and maybe some of those burrowing snails that eat crud out of the sand.

I flaked out on logging my food over the weekend. I think I did pretty well though. I ate too much cheese yesterday but other than that, I did alright. As far as workouts go, I did Cardio & Weights on Friday and Super Cardio (Death) Mix on Saturday and rested on Sunday.