After a week and a half off--Butt Kicked!!!!!

Well Erin was on vacation last week and I was gone part of the week before so it has been a while for me to write :)

Today I told Erin I was there to have my butt kicked and she did!!!! She had taken an advanced class while on vacation visiting a friend and she incorporated some of that into my workout. I pointed out that no one would call me advanced!!! but that did not stop her.

I am going to be sore over the next couple of days :) We started out with some kind of kick out, jump up and lift weights. Then we did some plank lifts, some squats with side kicks, some bicep rolls, some lunges with shoulder lifts, some tummy hurting ab twists, some oblique lifts, and there was a lot more lunges!!!!! I REALLY HATE LUNGES!!!!! I DON'T CARE HOW GOOD THEY ARE FOR ME :)

So now I am home. I had a wrap for dinner and now am doing okay. I did manage to get on the treadmill for 15 minutes at the end of the workout and I think that is the longest I have made it there after a workout.

We will see how the week plays out :)

Not so bad this week

Hi all,

Today's workout wasn't that bad (but don't tell Erin I said that :)) It started out with my warm ups on the treadmill and the weighted lunges. Then we headed over to the bar where I did push-ups, pull-ups, and triceps pushes. We also did weighted squat lifts. I did each of these twice.

Then we moved over to the open area. It started out with weighted step ups, then the bosu came out and I did squats (much better than last week), ball tosses, and then the one that I call the "flying things" (actual name is one-legged stork bends on a bosu) I like "flying things." My balance is really improving which is great. I was able to get on and off the bosu this week without help (that has never happened before) and did the squats and ball tosses without help. The one-legged stork things--I held on!!! Those were difficult and if I understand things, we will eventually be adding weight to them.

Then we added some arm work using the band around the pole. I did chest presses, triceps pushes (lots of triceps) and flies. Then we did all of the above in the open space once more.

Then punching sit ups and side-ball tosses. The sit ups were painful, but I made it through and the side-ball tosses were okay. Overall I think this week's workout went well and I feel pretty good. Probably on Wednesday when I am getting on the plane will be when the pain hits :)

I hope to go tomorrow morning early for some walking on the treadmill and then we will see about Wednesday before I leave on vacation.

Thanks for reading!!!

This week was better....

but still pretty bad. Although I am feeling better so I consider that a good thing. From what I gathered from Erin, today was another mini-bootcamp but it appeared to be more weights than aerobic tonight. My arms are going to be so sore tomorrow and Wednesday!!!!

I got to the gym about 4:40 pm and did my time on the treadmill and did my walking weighted lunges. After that I headed over to the training area--but no Erin. Finally Trent came out of the office, and I asked him if he had seen her. He gave her a call and she was in the parking lot and coming in. She had been on the phone in her car and was trying to get off a call from a telemarketer!

I then did sort of push-ups (I say that because they were not called push-ups but of course I can't remember the name), then weighted squats, then superwomans (and no I still don't have a picture of those--but they do hurt the belly), then weighted lunges, bicep curls and we ended with ball bounces. I did this part twice.

Then I had to do hammer curls, bent over flies, throwing weight (up from between the legs to the head and back down), then there was two more things, but I can't think of them right now. After doing that a second time--I thought yeah I am done and doing well. Yeah right!!!

Then it was squats on the bosu (my balance is getting better), then passing a weight while balancing on the bosu, and then crunches. Yup, I had to do these twice :)

Then it was on the bike for 11 minutes. I am pretty tired tonight, but not as bad as it could have been :) Things seemed to go pretty well and she said I did good, although I know there were times I did not think I would make it and was tiring out. My arms got quite the workout and are very sore right now!!!!

Have a great week!