Sweat was dripping off of my face and my heart was pumping. I loved it. I enjoyed this workout so much more then the core speed workout I did the other day. I didn’t have to make any modifications for my shoulder and I was extremely happy!

The balance planks were my favorite.

I can already feel my shoulder getting stronger each day and I am not far away from being able to do more pushups and heavier weights!

After I completed that workout. I did some of my physical therapy exercises. All of these exercises are helping to stabilize my shoulder.

This first one is done with resistance tubing. you keep your arm extended straight over head, you lift your shoulder up slightly and let your arm fall back just a little so you feel it in your serratus anterior muscle. Since my injury, my shoulder blades have been winging out a bit so I am fixing it by strengthening the serratus muscle.

The second exercise is a wider row.

With this row you stop once your elbow is by your side. Again your are activating the serratus muscle.

Starting my morning with this workout made me feel so productive! I am hoping to keep up with these quick T-25 workouts on the days I am not teaching classes. I love the convenience of doing them at home and also the fact that they are only 25 minutes!

Before my workout I had this Pure Brownie Bar… YUM!! As you can see the picture is just of the wrapper because I was too hungry to snap the picture before

It only has 7 natural ingredients: Dates, Agave nectar, Brown Rice Protein, Cashew Butter, Almonds, Walnuts, & Cocoa

The Core Speed workout went by quickly and all of the movements required SPEED and being light on your feet. Some of the exercises involved the upper body so I needed to modify a few of them.. I am still not able to do full on ballistic movements like boxing, so I substituted more squats and jumping jacks in their place!

I loved the L-Squat movement.. it is similar to a squat jack that I do in my boot camp class!

I also added some knee pushups into my workout. I have been dying to try them. I don’t think my shoulder is quite strong enough to do them daily but I was able to finish 2 sets of 8. It’s a start and I’m okay with that!

I took this selfie of me and Cooper (I’m not usually a selfie taker)..  I wanted you all to see my sweat dripping in this picture but I think my main reason of taking the picture was to of course capture Cooper passed out on the couch. He worked hard too!

Happy Friday!