Plyometrics!

[GLC1968]

I'd be happy with just being able to do a pushup....

Next time we get together - I'm gonna have to see proof of this. I find it hard to believe that with all your crossfit and swimming that you can't do even one. And if you can't, I'm gonna teach you how you can, damn it!

[Susan Otcenas]

I only went to Crossfit once. I enjoyed it and think I'd get way strong doing it. But zowie, it would cost alot of money to join that Crossfit facility ($200/month!) I already spend almost that much for coaching, plus my gym membership and my pool membership. I just don't think I want to add that much more to my monthly athletic expenditures!

Really really, I can't do one single boy pushup. I can do about 10 girl pushups in a row. I really want to do the 100 pushups program online, but I never seem to get around to starting.

[kilimarti]

I only went to Crossfit once. I enjoyed it and think I'd get way strong doing it. But zowie, it would cost alot of money to join that Crossfit facility ($200/month!) I already spend almost that much for coaching, plus my gym membership and my pool membership. I just don't think I want to add that much more to my monthly athletic expenditures!

Really really, I can't do one single boy pushup. I can do about 10 girl pushups in a row. I really want to do the 100 pushups program online, but I never seem to get around to starting.

Hi Susan,

Just read your post about paying $200 per month for CrossFit. I own a facility in Hillsboro where we not only teach Crossfit but a ton of other group classes including TRX for $99 per month. We work with all levels from beginners to athletes. Check us out: http://www.sweat360.com

[tulip]

I've gotten much better with the 100 pushups program (I'm neither willing nor able to spend money on a trainer or gym, not with this new roof on my house).

Susan, if you have an iphone, the 100 pushups iphone app is great. It keeps me motivated.

Try it, and start with girl pushups if you have to. I still do a combo of girl/boy (horrible term!) pushups, and I'm up to 52 total (but not straight). I see a big difference in my arms in both definition and strength. And it takes about 7-10 minutes out of your day.

[OakLeaf]

Just remember not to make that the only upper-body work you do.

In spite of the cautionary posts I put up here when I was doing the 100-pushups program, I didn't do an equal number of pull-ups, dips, internal/external rotations and reverse flyes, and wound up really screwing up my rotator cuffs and most of the muscles around them. Nerve impingement under the pec minor and everything. Nothing five or six intense neuromuscular massages plus all kinds of self-treatment with stretching, strengthening and a Thera-Cane couldn't cure, but I would've done better not to get myself there in the first place.

[Susan Otcenas]

Just remember not to make that the only upper-body work you do.

Coach gave me an upper body routine to do, which is what I follow each time I go to the weight room:

Seated Rows
2 sets narrow
2 sets wide

Lat pull downs
3 sets

chest press
2 sets

pull overs
2 sets

shoulder press
2 sets

tricep dips (standing)
1 set

tricep extensions
1 set

bicep curls
1 set

Between some of the sets I work in some abdominals.

Susan

[tulip]

Good point, Oakleaf. Since I don't go to a gym, I do other exercises, Pilates, and yoga at home. Am I missing something? Probably, but it's the best I can do. I've had rotator cuff problems before, and they are no fun. I developed problems while being under the eye of a coach (not a very good one, evidently) at a gym, doing weights that were too heavy, too fast, and too soon. If anything I err on the side of not doing enough of anything, as opposed to doing too much of something.

[Susan Otcenas]

Next time we get together

Are you gonna make me drop and give you 20 at the sushi place tonight???

[GLC1968]

Are you gonna make me drop and give you 20 at the sushi place tonight???

Nope, just one.

(and you can wait until Jill's if you'd like)