We had a great group training session this morning. For the second time in a row, the men in our group apparently decided to sleep in so it was an "estrogen only" group this morning - 5 women

We started out with several creative plank and pushup series that used planar movements in all possible directions with a little jogging and split-jacks tossed in. That was the first warm-up - he always gives us two "warm-ups". The second so-called "warm-up" was a series of 4 exercises that focused on lateral movements. I will try to describe it - a bar is attached to a stretchy band that is secured. 5 rounds of 30 seconds each doing different movements with the bar. At one point I hit myself in the nose with the band so my glasses came off for the rest - these are partner exercises so we alternated partners each 30 seconds and rested while our partner did her exercise.

Once we were warmed up we moved to the next thing: 5 kettlebell deadlifts (appropriate weight for each of us) and 10 pushups. Rinse and repeat every minute on the minute for 10 minutes (50 deadlifts and 100 pushups in total). If you want a break then finish each round in under a minute.

The last part of the session was a 12 minute challenge that he calls the "I Will Challenge". In those 12 minutes we each had to complete the following:

50 jump ropes (with a short fat monster rope) or 150 with a normal jump rope
50 TRX rows
50 Jumping Jacks with the regular monster ropes
50 lateral jumps between two cones, touching each cone
50 split jack crunches
500 meter row

Much to my surprise I was the second woman to finish, and we ALL completed everything within the allotted 12 minutes.

We rocked