Brutal Workout, yet fun

[Catrin]

Thanks, I will try it! This takes practice, for sure. I think I will try it without the therapy ball for now. At my gym they have things you can put the ball in that stabilizes it - but if I am practicing there I will just use the TRX and if I happen to lose my grip I am only a foot or so from a rubber mat.

They also have these really big robust band thingies that they use for assisted pull-ups. I've been told it would probably work for me but with my ankle flexibility problem I am afraid to trust myself to what is basically a really large rubber band...sort of kind of.

[Irulan]

For the longest time, I had the goal of a no-assist pull up. I got very close, but the reality is I have a torn labrum in my right shoulder and a no-assist pull up is just not something I should do. I do a ton of other shoulder work. In fact, I think it's my work out that has kept my shoulder stable for several years now. I've come close to re injuring ( subluxation on the Grand Canyon) but because the entire shoulder girdle is so strong now, it's prevented potentially bad things from happening so far.

There's lots of other things I can do instead... horizontal pulls, full pushups, a very wide array of other things, so I just accept it.

[Catrin]

Shoulder/biceps are my weak point. I've been working out pretty heavily for 3 full years now and that part of my body hasn't come along near as far as my core and lower body. There has been progress, but not what I would like to see. However I will take what I can get, and the new approach at my current gym appears to be getting my body's attention.

I still can't do more than 5 full pushups though, and those are pretty bad. This is becoming embarrassing since I can do 100 modified pushups in sets of 20-30 (just last night as part of a challenge that included 50 pull-ups, 100 pushups and 150 squats - started and ended with a .5 mile run). I did TRX rows in place of the pull-ups since I can't do unassisted pull-ups just yet.

[Irulan]

These functional fitness classes to me seem to be the best all over workout I've ever had. And since its changing all the time muscle boredom doesn't set in.

Here's a good one - anyone ever done these?
Stability Ball Pushup to Pike?

OMG, these are one of the hardest things I have ever done. I did knock off ten of them. I thought I was going to die, and there's no way I could get to my toes like the guy on the video does.