Monday's workout was fun and challenging. We started and ended the workout with sprints. We did 5 sets of sprints - 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, 60 seconds, and 30 seconds. Each set got faster and faster for me. I tried to not go all out at the start so I reserved some energy for the last two. When we were done with sprints we did a a ladder workout of 7 exercises. We started with just 30 seconds of one exercise and then we kept adding exercises onto it. When we were all done we did the round of sprints again. My kids joined us for the sprints. They love running! Not sure where they get that from...
Tuesday was a bit hectic in the morning, but I still made it in time to run the chip trail with Chris over his lunch break. We did 3.5 miles before I started having problems. I didn't eat enough or drink enough that morning so I ended up getting really light headed and had to walk the last .75 miles or so. I was being stubborn and tried to run a few times but had to walk. I've never felt so light headed on a run before and I know it was from lack of food and water (I had half a bagel with pb and honey and coffee at 0730 and then nothing else; we ran at 1100). I drank lots of water afterwards to be ready for bootcamp.
Tuesday night we only had a small group show up (5 of us). We were put into a group of 3 (my group) and a group of 2. I LOVED this workout! It was a change from the norm and had no cardio in it - all weights; which was good since I probably still hadn't had enough water. We were supposed to grab a weight that was about 5 lbs heavier then we normally would choose and we did 3 sets of 3 exercises. You had to do 10 reps of the exercise and then single reps until muscle failure (or 25, and if you hit 25 you had to increase your weight because it wasn't heavy enough). I was so proud of myself. We did:
Overhead Presses. I started with 15 lbs, then did 20 lbs, and then 20 lbs again.
Squats. I started with 2 - 20 lbs (so 40lbs total), dropped to 35 lbs for the single. Kept the weights the same for the entire three sets.
Floor Press. I started with 15 lbs for the first set and 15 lbs on the single, but for the next two sets I switched to 15 lbs for both hands and then raised to 20 lbs for the single presses.
We made it through one time and then started all over again only this time we only did two sets (we made it to the squats before we had to stop).
We ended the workout with a "stack" which I absolutely loved! It was challenging and tough, and just a great workout. Basically you start with one exercise and end with 6 or 7 exercises all in a row. Troy told me to do 20 lbs but as he was describing the exercises we were going to do I went ahead and grabbed 15 lbs too. I did start with 20, but about half way I had to drop down to 15. We started with bicep curls, then overhead presses, then we dropped to a burpee, deadlift back up to bicep curl, upright row from burpee, and mountain climber from burpee. It was a great new exercise that was challenging and fun. I tried my best to stay with Troy and not fall behind. Great, great, great workout!
Wednesday I didn't get any workouts in due to conflicting schedules which just happened to carry into Thursday morning. I got up on Thursday and started getting dressed since I didn't have any e-mails saying the location had changed to indoors. I was putting on my shoes when Rebecca text me and asked if I wanted to ride together. Ride? The workout did get moved inside, but I never got an e-mail. I figured since I was up and dressed that it was dumb to go back to bed (I know I'd be super mad at myself later in the day if I climbed back in bed), so I went over to the track to do some laps. It turns out that I wasn't the only one who didn't get an e-mail. Lisa was there too. Both of us have to stop working out and be home by 0630 so we decided that since we were there we'd just do it together. Troy sent us the board but we didn't know half the exercises, so we just made some things up. The board was a tabata and had a lap after every exercise. We both knew that the purpose was to keep us moving and our heart rate up, so we replaced the exercises he had that we didn't know with moves we thought were similar. We also decided that we should do our least favorite exercise since we hated it for a reason. It was a short, but great workout. This is what we created:
Do one minute of burpees (my least favorite)
Run one lap
Do one minute of ski abs (her least favorite)
Run one lap
Do one minute pushups
Run one lap
Do one minute step ups (30 seconds each leg)
Run one lap
Hold a 90 second plank
Each lap we did took us about 2:45 (we just ran it together). I asked Rebecca about how long they did each of their exercises since that hadn't been on the board picture I had and she said they did 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off four times; so we weren't off by that much when it was all said and done. We were quite proud of ourselves and we took a selfie and sent it to Troy so he knew how badass we were for doing it outside! (seriously though it wasn't cold, 45 degrees).
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