Day 2, Week 9: Working out with pets in the house: (Un)helpful tips

This morning's workout was Cathe's Total Body Tri-Sets, which nearly killed me with its cornucopia of different annoying versions of push-ups.  It's a good thing I had the cat there to inspire me with all his hard work and effort, or else I never would have gotten through the workout.

Hyooman.  Chest to floor, slacker.

Hyooman push-ups...so laughable.

If you couldn't tell, I do my weight workouts in the comfort of my crappy little living room.  It's not very big, but I make it work--you have to use the space you have to get those workouts done.  I also have to make it work around four crazy animals, all of whom are under the age of two and think my workout time is play time.  So, how do you work out with young playful animals around?  Let me give you some of my helpful non-helpful tips:


Tip One: Locate the animal who has been nominated as supervisor and get into his good graces by smothering him with kisses.  That way he'll let you cheat on your push-ups later.

Tip Two:  Take selfies with the animals to put off doing all those pesky push-ups.

Tip Three: Scatter equipment about the floor to make it look like you have already worked out to fool any animal that might want to jump on you during push-ups or while doing your box jumps.

Tip Four: Never stop moving during your workout.  Someone is always waiting for you to stop long enough to demand rubs.

Hyooooman...need rubs now.  During push-ups.

Tip Five: Smiling dogs will always think you're playing during plyometrics/HiiT and try and knock you over and jump on your box step.  Never trust them when they're in your workout area.  EVER.

Dog be like "I did it once and I'll do it again lolololol"

And finally, Tip Six: Always share the joy of a good recovery.

Learnings:

• Can you tell I didn't have a lot of time to post today?  Yeah, you can tell.
• Can you also tell I hate push-ups?  I do.  I really really do.  Especially soldier push-ups.  Buh.
• It's a rare workout in the living room that is animal-free.
• It's never a good workout in the living room that ends with a cat hanging by its claws from your shoelaces.

Tomorrow's workout: Treadmill Tuesday! Lots of 1000m repeats with a 2000m thrown in just for laughs!  And tears!