I've started working with a trainer again, so there was lifting this week. We're mostly concentrating on upper body and core right now, although I am very, very proud that I can do a near-perfect squat with no balance aid, and have slowly started adding weight to it. I'm up to eight squats with 10 lb dumbbells in each hand.

The core stuff we're doing is brutal, mostly involving lots and lots of planks with variations. For example, the newest one is a push-up plank where I bring one leg forward (toe on floor in line with my other knee), hold for 3-5 seconds, then put it back and do the other leg, and repeat as many times as I can. I'm up to three reps, although the thing that inevitably causes me to fail is my hands or feet slipping or my arms giving out. I'm doing lots of stuff like that, push-up and elbow planks where I lift a leg, or switching from one to the other. If I may boast a little, my trainer says I'm way ahead of the three basketball players he's training in the plank area.

What's shocking to me with all that is that I have very little soreness the next day (or the day after; I'm told 48 hours later is max soreness). I don't know if that's good or not ;).