Plyometrics

[Veronica]

Sometimes it is with one foot, but not when I have a race coming up. Anything one legged fries my legs for a couple of days.

Veronica

[Catrin]

Sometimes it is with one foot, but not when I have a race coming up. Anything one legged fries my legs for a couple of days.

Veronica

I can imagine, frankly for me it is hard enough to do it with both feet...I still think it is a body-trust thing, at least for me. Of course, I've not jumped for most of my 52 years...

[Veronica]

I really didn't like it when we started. It was hard, I felt uncoordinated...

but now I'd spend my whole hour just doing plyos if she'd let me. But nooo... I have to do leg press and extensions and hamstring curls and and backward lunges holding a weight and kick at the end. Actually those were kind of fun because of the balancing.

I know my head definitely has to be in it. I always step up on the step before I jump on it. When it starts getting high - 11 is the beginning of high - I swing my arms a lot before I jump, usually three times. Last week my trapezoids were killing me because I swung my arms so much. One week she made me jump holding a wooden stick on my shoulders so I couldn't use my arms. That freaked me out a bit at first. But I trust her judgement. She wants to push me, but she won't ask me to do something I simply can't do.

Veronica

[Catrin]

He has us do different types of plyometrics on a regular basis, but the jumping onto or over something is the most challenging for me and I hate to do it. I feel awkward, unwieldy and ungainly. However I know it is good for me and I do manage to do it - and he doesn't ask me to jump very high. I just need to get over this - so once I am past my big ride this weekend I am going to start practicing jumping along with my overhead squat press practice.

Backward lunges holding a weight and kick at the end? We did this today - less the kick at the end. I am trying to picture how that works...

[Veronica]

I was holding a 20 pound dumb bell in the right hand, right leg is back for the lunge and then bring it forward and kick, return to the lunge position.

Veronica