39:00 Bike + Toning [TIU]

Welp, April sucked on the blogging front. I accept that. Time to move onwards and upwards! I have t-minus 4 weeks until I shall be lounging around on the beach, and my awesome new bathing suit deserves some awesome muscles to go along with it. Bring on the Bikini Series!

Technically this challenge started last week, but last week I was a giant fail (don't go to baseball games on Monday nights -- they mess up your whole week!) so I'm really getting on board this week. My goal is to follow ToneItUp's plan as closely as I can for the next couple weeks and see what happens. So far the program has been fairly comprehensive -- lots of toning mixed with cardio. The only thing I can't quite figure out is this 'booty call' situation. They encourage you to do 20-30 minutes of something when you first get up in the morning to rev your metabolism or whatever, but they only mention it in, like, every once in awhile. But where it is mentioned, they're like 'today's booty call is this!'. What about the rest of the days? Am I supposed to do that last thing every day until you tell me otherwise? Or, like, is the booty call the same as the cardio workout for the day? I'm very confused. But at the same time, adding 20 minutes of cardio to my life won't hurt anything, so if I do too much so be it.

Pre

Energy Level [1-5]: 

Sore Areas: Ankle is slightly messed up :(

Yesterday: Kickball! Because that's hard...?

Environment: Indoors

Workout
Equipment: Stationary Bike
Level: 15
Work Time: 50:00?

Minutes	Intensity: RPM	Total Distance (mi)
0:00 - 3:00	~75 [lvl 16]
3:01 - 5:00	85 [lvl 16]
5:01 - 6:00	95 [lvl 16]
6:00 - 6:30	110+ [lvl 16]	2.05
<BREAK>	25 Squats 15 Pushups	✔
6:31 - 9:30	~75
9:31 - 11:30	85
11:31 - 12:30	95
12:31 - 13:00	110+	+ 1.97 = 4.02
<BREAK>	1:00 Plank 30 Opp-Knee Plank	✔
13:01 - 16:00	~75
16:01 - 18:00	85
18:01 - 19:00	95
19:01 - 19:30	110+	+ 2.02 = 6.04
<BREAK>	20 Lunge + Twist 20 Tricep Dips + Kick	✔
19:30 - 39:00	Repeat 0:00 - 19:30	+ 2.01 = 8.05 ✔ + 1.99 = 10.04 ✔ +2.00 = 12.04 ✔
Total: 39:00

Post
Energy Level [1-5]: 4
Stretch Time: 10:00
Total Time: 75:00

Day After
Sore Level [1-5]: 1
Sore Areas: Nothing specifically caused by this workout.

Comments
Totally felt like I rocked this workout -- then I looked up my previous workouts with the 3/2/1/:30 intervals and realized I was about on par with them. Drat - thought I was improving! I've decided I like splitting the sets up with exercises though. Even though I feel a liiiiittle dorky doing squats next to the bike it gives me the sort of 'rest' that I usually take by slacking for the first 15-ish seconds of the next interval. Since I'm doing pushups or whatever instead, my legs get that few seconds recovery they need and I can hop back up and power through the entirety of the 6:30!