DogMa wrote:Queenie, where you been???? I miss having you here, and I want to know how the gym challenge is going.
Hey Robin,
I've been lurking lately. I hope you're still around to read this. The challenge is going well so far. I was out a week due to my teeth extraction but I made it to 4 classes last week. This week I'm shooting for 2 body power, 2 FIT and at least 1 yoga. Last week I did 2 body power, 1 FIT and one yoga.
My first FIT (Functional Interval Training) class was interesting. We had to do 5 sets of 20 burpees (I'll explain), 100 yd sprint, 100 yd D-ball overhead carry and 20 touchdowns as fast as possible. The burpees are brutal. You put your hands (and feet) and the ground, jump back into the top of a push up position, jump your legs back into your starting position and then jump up off the ground, hands in the air for 1 rep. FUN! I only did one full set of 20. The other sets I did anywhere from 16 to 9. The 100 yd sprint was fun - it actually was. The overhead d-ball carry (I used a 20 pound dball) was challenging and the touchdowns (using a 5 kg medicine ball, you sit on the ground, bend your knees, try to keep your feet off the ground, lean back and touch the med ball down on one side of your body and twist to the other side and touch the ball down again for one rep) are always tougher than they look for me. I can't do them with my feet of the ground yet. Overall, it was a good workout. I did yoga after that one.
The body power classes earlier in the week were tough. The first class on Wednesday, my favorite professor from my department at school was there. She is intellectually and personally amazing. She was my partner and I felt like such an idiot because I could not for the life of me do the move we were supposed to do - from downward dog position, we were supposed to lower our forehead between our heads without doing a pushup like motion. I could not figure it out. Like 4 people came over to help me but to no avail except for the 2 or 3 times I actually did it. It was more of a diagonal move but I couldn't get it right. After that, we used a rope tied to the ceiling to pull ourselves to standing from hanging parallel to the ground. I was much much better at that one. Then we did some lunges while holding kettlebells over our heads. That was tough because I wasn't lunging correctly on one side. My knee was going too far over my ankle on the right side. The final exercise was kettle bell swings. I was good at that one, too. We started with the kettlebell between our legs, knees bent and you pop your hips forward and extend your arm up to shoulder height. The movement is not supposed to come from your arms as much as the kettlebell should be propelled from the hip swing.
Friday's body power class was a 20-15-10-5 workout - 20 reps the first set, 15 reps the next set...as fast as possible. We did 90 degree chin ups, dips(mine were stationary holds because I'm not strong enough to do dips yet) and controlled jumps (barely jumping off the ground but starting with your fingers touching the ground and then going over your head). I think that was it.
Hope that week in review wasn't too boring
I saw a low of 191.5 this week, but I'm back up over that, hoping to get to 188 sometime soon (60 pound club). I've decided to stick with medifast at least until I go home for Christmas. I think I'm just getting bored, but when I think about all of the food prep I would have to do on the other plans I'm considering, grabbing a shake seems like a better idea.
Oh, and that Pilates studio never returned my call
I even went by there but no one was there (in the middle of the day). I guess I should keep looking.
Also starting yoga. Isnt it great to do poses with out a tummy in the way?? Or at least that was my issue.
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