Fun of a different kind!

[Catrin]

Our workout this morning, after the warmup, started with bear crawls, crab crawls, and seal drag... The first two are hard enough - but that last one was just plain awful in a strange fun sort of way. (seal drag = lying full length on the floor with feet on sliders. Drag body for prescribed distance with no help from legs) This was the first time for the seal drag and, considering my upper body strength, there is little surprise that I did very poorly at it. I did, however, do it

[Crankin]

I have done those and I hate them. My gym is so cheap, we use paper plates!

[Catrin]

I have done those and I hate them. My gym is so cheap, we use paper plates!

In the long run the paper plates are more expensive. My gym uses furniture sliders that they purchased at a big box store (don't know which one) quite inexpensively. Perhaps you could make the suggestion? There doesn't need to be that many sets of them.

[OakLeaf]

On a hard floor like most gyms have, you can use sweat towels. If it's carpeted, frisbees.

[Crankin]

The instructors have tried... they reuse the paper plates until they fall apart.
Not too many of the instructors use them, needless to say.

[OakLeaf]

I just grab a stack of sweat towels out of the cardio machine area, if they haven't stocked the group fitness studio with enough to use as sliders.

[Crankin]

Yes, when she is there, I use smaller weights. I had her again today, but there was a little more cardio, although some involved way too many mountain climbers.
I have to now shower, etc. at the gym on Thursdays as I have a client at 8:30, about 25 miles away. I haven't done this in 5 years.

[Catrin]

4 minutes, just 4 minutes at the end of an hour-long workout.

20 seconds frog jumps
20 seconds air squats
20 seconds holding deep squat
back to the top, no breaks, no stopping (or we get to do another full round).

JUST 4 minutes <cue evil music in the background>



So thankful I can still do all of my weird gym stuff outside of front squats, overhead presses & push presses - so what that pumping up my bike tires hurts my shoulder (which makes no sense but there you go)...

[Catrin]

This time I can't blame my trainer, I liked the following workout so much when we did it in group training two weeks ago that I inflicted it upon myself this afternoon:

Dynamic warm-up & some core work then:

one round of the following - 2-3 minute rest between them
(stopping as needed during each round, focusing on making each rep count)

leg presses for 6 minutes (83 reps)
lat pulls for 6 minutes (100 reps)
Single deadlifts for 6 minutes (75 reps)

Not a very long workout - but it didn't need to be

[Catrin]

This morning my trainer occupied me for about 7 minutes with the following:

Pushed a "dog sled" with 50 pounds of plates for 50 yards
Pull another sled with same weight with a monster rope for 50 yards
10 overhead slams with 20 pound dynamax ball
Jog back to the starting line and do 10 tire flips

I did that as quickly as I could (with a short break in between sets), trying to beat my first time. I didn't succeed at that...but it was still fun!

[Crankin]

Went back to boot camp today, for the first time in 2.5 weeks. We did lovely intervals (6, I think) of 10 box jumps, 50 jacks, 10 box jumps, 50 high knees run in place, 10 burpees, 50 kick your butt run in place.
My cheap gym got kettle balls when I was gone.... that was lovely, too. Actually, the class was good, and I was so happy it wasn't the evil one for my first day back.

[Irulan]

Try "gators" with a 5# plate sometime....

I worked in,or rather successfully attempted plyopushups yesterday into my pushnup sets yesterday (clap push-ups) I did 5 in a row, three times, within sets of 10. That felt awesome.

[Catrin]

Try "gators" with a 5# plate sometime....

I worked in,or rather successfully attempted plyopushups yesterday into my pushnup sets yesterday (clap push-ups) I did 5 in a row, three times, within sets of 10. That felt awesome.

Where is the plate, on the back or pushing it? plyopushups are fun, if hard. Wish my shoulder would allow that right now...

[Irulan]

You drag the plate with your feet!

[Catrin]

You drag the plate with your feet!

I thought of everything but that I will have to give that a shot....