• +20 Plyometric Jumps

Buffin had me warm up with jumping jacks this morning. I was very enthusiastic about them - so enthusiastic that I landed on one of treadmill outlets, which caused it to power down while a man was still running on it. Buffin and I ran immediately into the big boyz section before we could be blamed. Then he proceeded to tell me I was perfect and amazing while doing the following things: squats, shoulder presses, one handed chest-presses with a 20lb barbell, floor pushups, lunges, one -handed rope machine pulls, and vertical jumps. Buffin also complimented my new workout pants from Old Navy. There you have it: Old Navy activewear- von Hottie & Buffin approved!

Naughty Flog: I had a little donut sample at my coffee shop, BUT I didn't put sugar in my coffee so I think it evens out. I tricked myself into pretending cinnamon=sugar, and it pretty much worked.

• +30 Plyometric Jumps

Tuesday's session with Buffin demolished me. I thought I was going to fall asleep while holding a kettle bell. We did lots of circuits that I can't even remember, but they involved prisoner lunges, pushups, kettlebell swings, turkish getups, plyo jumps, planks, situps and a lot of walking bands and squats.

Anthony, Fraidy's trainer, has a new favorite trick, which is to sneak up behind me and scare me in the middle of a session. After I finished screaming, he told me about Fraidy's shoulder, and how proud he was that she still wanted to work out. Then he showed off pictures from his phone of Fraidy at her sister's wedding. Fraidy looked smokin'! Obviously our trainers love us, obviously we are their favorite clients.

• +10 Plyometric Jumps

Oof! Buffin is still out murder my chest muscles, or as I've taken to calling them, my armpit muscles (because that's where it hurts the next day). This morning's workout was cable rows alternated with squats with two 25lb plates, lat pulldowns, more squats with rows, then plate jacks, dumbbell chest presses, lunges, pushups, more squats with weights, more pushups, burpees, and more pushups. In more interesting news, and using words that mean things to people who don't hang out at gyms, Buffin has agreed that during my Halloween session, I can dress as Honey Boo Boo and he will be Sugar Bear.

p.s. Guess who RAN to get to the gym this morning? This girl! It was only .7 miles, but boy did my new hot pink warm up jacket look good blowing past the construction workers on West 4th.

• +12 Plyometric Jumps

Buffin had a very intense circuit planned for me with lots of squats, lunges and jumps. But, during the first set, I pulled my hamstring, so we switched to doing a gazillion pushups and chest presses. Buffin's war against my stubbornly weak chest muscles continues.