Bring back the machine!

I was supposed to write this one on Thursday (Yesterday), but I was having such productive day at work,  that I let the work get done, and didn't set down to write. So here I am, writing.

Basically, I write about my workouts the next day after I do them, because I do them at night. So yesterday I was to write about what I did on Wednesday. Believe me, I was excited about sharing it! But today, the excitement is gone. Why? Because I didn't work out yesterday. It was an unscheduled, unplanned break. But I will make up for it by working on the Sunday. And since I will work out early in the day on Sunday, it will not interfere with the workouts of my next week. Anyway.

So basically, yesterday I was feeling that I have been busting my butt for two days now, and still no sign of soreness. I took a day of rest, thinking maybe the soreness will come the next day. (Sometimes that happens with me too, I guess because I haven't taken enough sleep in the first night.)

Anyway, so on Wednesday, I don't know what got into me, I tried to turn '55' into '100'... haha... Not only that, but the last five sets of squats, I did them with weights. Now That gave me soreness. But that was all. And it wasn't enough. Anyway, we will see how to address this issue too.

So, on Wednesday, I did:

10 squats, 10 lateral raises, 100 rope jumps
10 squats, 10 lateral raises, 100 rope jumps
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10 squats, 10 lateral raises, 100 rope jumps

So that's how the '55' went. It turned into 100. And no, that's not how I would be doing it every day from now. Like I said, I don't know how I did it. Perhaps, both of these exercises were easy? And perhaps, I really wanted to see some improvement in shoulders as well as thighs? I guess so.

And after that, I had decided I would couple military press with lateral hurdle jumps, and do five rounds. And I noticed an improvement in lateral jumps too! That's awesome. But I didn't do all five rounds. I was noticing not-so-pleasant kind of pain in my right shoulder, and I recalled the time when I had ripped my lats, so I just stopped there. And that too, was a good tough workout, for me.

For next day, I didn't really have a plan. And I ended up going to Madni masjid, there I spent some extra time. So got home late to begin with. Then went to the bank to fetch money. Another 15 spent. Then on the way back got soup for family. Now when I brought the soup, and everybody was having soup and all, and I was feeling this tightness in my head, right around the crown, I just felt like taking a day off. And I Can take a day off, provided I do six workouts in a week, with rests in between. So, like I said, I will now work on Sunday.

Now - what should I do? That issue still remains un-addressed. Perhaps, I will follow Scooby's guidelines (Scooby from Scooby's Workshop) for beginners, and make my regime such that one day I will do only cardio for 30 minutes, and the other day it will be 15-min cardio and 15-min weight training.

If it's cardio day today, what cardio should I do? Can I do? I don't wanna go to the park and run, walk, jog there. No. And jumping rope, I can't do for half an hour! Or can I? I don't know. I could alternate jumping rope with some sissy exercises like raising knees, punching in air, kicking in air, jumping jacks, and that will be it. But it will bore me to death. But I guess that will have to do, till I shift my workout to morning and can go to park for nice tiring runs. What do you think I should do?