BLAST Week #4

Week #4 of BLAST is a short one thanks to the Holiday; however that did not make the workouts any less challenging. It's been raining a lot lately; off and on since Friday, so six days now. Chris had to go to work Monday morning so I went to the night class which was thankfully outside. It was a great workout; very go, go, go! We did 4 rounds of 9 minutes. Our first station was pushups, flutterkicks, and simultaneous rope whips. Our second station was teams of 3 taking turns running with the tire. WOW! Now that was tough but such fun. I really liked it. I think it'll help make my legs stronger for running in the sand. Great, great workout today!
I don't have any images, but I found these online to show what rope whips (fun!) and the tire setup was like:

Troy said he was feeling bad about the whole mix up last week when I didn't get the notification that the workout was inside, but showed up and did it outside anyway, so he gave me a t-shirt!! My long sleeve tech shirt that I ordered last month came in too (although I thought it was supposed to be neon green; it's still pretty nice though).

For the Tuesday workout Chris was off work, so I got up bright and early to do BLAST #2 workout of the week which just happened to be called, "Legs, Legs, Legs." It was moved inside because of all the rain, but that didn't matter since we didn't need a ton of space. I was happy that my legs weren't feeling too sore from the night before, but that faded about 2 sets in. We started with 100 yards of double walking lunges and 100 squats, then we counted down from there: 80/80, 60/60, 40/40, 20/20 of different exercises that included triple walking lunges and split squats - UGH!! At the end of the board he wrote "cry" - pretty appropriate I'd say! We ended our workout with 2 rounds of 90 second wall-sits. As soon as I got home I chugged some chocolate milk then soaked in epsom salt, smeared Biofreeze on my achy quads, and put on compression sleeves.
I'm feeling pretty good today. My legs are a little stiff, but otherwise they feel great. I could even go for a run which actually sounds like a great idea. I do believe I will...after I eat a few more sugar cookies (WHY are these things in my house?!?). Merry Christmas!!