Back day or was it arms?

Well today turned into back day, but it seemed like a lot of arm work to me :)

I started out with my lunges and then I stepped up on one foot, lifted my other knee, bent over to touch my toe, and then lifted my knee again. Yeah--my balance sucks and this is something I might have to keep working on since I fell off a couple a times....okay a lot of times!!!!

Then we moved over to the weights and I did the dead weight lifts, dead weight flies, and bicep curls that were killer because I went up fast and then had to go down slooooowly. Erin had to help me do the lift ups after four since my arms were burning. Then I did pull-ups and tried to weighted squats on the bar. I just could not get into a comfortable position that did not hurt so we changed it to using a bar weight instead of the bar machine and that went better.

Then it was y's and some other painful arm weight exercise that had me grimacing quite attractively!!! I did hammer lifts (first round at 15) and lift ups and outs. Then to heaven lifts (OMG) and timed kick ins. Of course everything was repeated.

Right now I am in some pain and need to get off the computer since I am not in an ergonomic position and in a painful position. So off to stretch out my muscles and empty the dishwasher.

Have a great week everyone and as Erin says "It is only pain, Paula!" hee hee

Another mini-bootcamp

It was another bootcampesque workout (I know, not a word, but isn't it loverly?)

I started out with Bosu burpees, then toe taps on the Bosu and then jumps on the Bosu (they scared the crap out of me and so for the second round I did squats on the Bosu). Push-ups on the Bosu, then squats to shoulder press, then triceps, then back lunges off of the step, then step-ups with an arm lift high in the air (weighted), then it was lunges with arm lifts to the side and then to the front. Then I did flies on the ball, stability ball passes, roll-outs with the ball and finally plank on the ball (legs on the ball in the plank position). This was the first round. Repeat all.

This was my first time of a plank on the ball and I managed the first round to hold for 30 seconds. The second round my arms were just so exhausted that I could not do it. I ended up doing a regular plank on the mat and holding that for 30.

One exciting thing is that stability ball passes are getting easier. I really flowed with them this week when normally I struggle. As I was doing them I was thinking wow this is not so bad right now. That makes me really excited.

Wonder what next week will bring?

Tummy was upset

Well I have had an upset tummy since Saturday so the first thing I told Erin was that if I ran off to the bathroom just to let me go. For the record--I did not need to run to the bathroom :)

All Erin said was hmmmmm you have a mini-bootcamp today. I said Bring it on. So we started out with crawling push-ups--YUCK!!! then I did squat to shoulder press, then Bosu squat kick outs, flies, jumping jacks, butt kicks. Repeat. Then it was back weighted lunges, bicep curls, triceps on the Bosu, hammer lifts, pile squats, and something that I can't remember.

Then I did sit ups on the Bosu. Three different kinds!!! Just perfect for a person with an upset tummy. Then I stood on the Bosu and we threw the ball back and forth with a bounce. Working on my balance and core.

Overall I did okay. I was very hungry at the end which I took as a good sign :)

More next week......

Back and arms

Hi,

Finally get a chance to do the update this morning.

I got to the gym a little late so only had time to do 4 minutes on the bike before doing my uneven weighted lunges. Then Erin asked me if we had done push-ups last week and I was like oh yeah. So she says then today we work on the back. Well my arms hurt after this workout not my back, but I can see where I used my back to do a lot of these.

I started out with pull-downs at 75 pounds, then bicep curls (graduated--this was on the machine and I did 7 bottom half, 7 top half and 7 full), I did bar pull downs, squats to lifts, weighted lunges, side-to-side pulls with step outs, one armed low rows, weighted lunges, planks with lift ups, and leg lifts. There were also inverted arm lifts, some kind of straight arm lifts that were killers, and hammer lifts.

I think that is it, but isn't it enough? I can not believe how much I get done in 30 minutes. It always amazes me because then I go to the gym for 40 to 60 minutes by myself and don't get it all done. I need Erin to push my butt even though sometimes she can be a little evil :)

No time :(

No time to write tonight. Major back and arm workout. Details coming.......