Fun of a different kind!

[Catrin]

Went to my gym for a brief unscheduled workout mid-morning to celebrate/de-stress from an hard deadline at work and for the first time in a LONG time was able to not only do Kettlebell Thrusters at all - but even properly and with no pain! I've not been doing any pressing exercises for some time due to my recalcitrant shoulder but after only 2 ART treatments the response of my shoulder is amazing

The treatment seems brutal at the time - but the results are profound!

[Catrin]

"Hurricane Training" this morning. This is comprised of nine sprints that drop down in time after every set of 3 rounds - starting with 25 second sprints, then 20, then 15. Incline = 10, though he sets the speed differently for each one of us - I started with a speed of 5, my last round was 6.5 - the fastest I've ever been on a treadmill. In between each sprint there are two exercises, and a 2 minute rest after every set of 3 rounds.

[Catrin]

This morning we did a deceptively simple set of exercises for 15 minutes. We did not start nor end with these. Our coach had me doing something a little different from my team-mates since pressing is a problem for me right now because of my shoulder - so the following is what I did.

3 fast rounds of the following:

3 kettlebell cleans
3 kettlebell front squats
3 TRX high rows

:45 rest, then do another 3 rounds, rest, etc. for 15 minutes.

At first 45 seconds seemed a very long break, that changed quickly. We followed this with sled-push races

[Catrin]

I REALLY needed a good workout today, and our 15 minute "finisher" at the end of group training this morning certainly provided that. He called it a "modified Cougar"

15 KB swings
10 Goblet Squats
10 TRX Rows
10 Pushups

15 KB Swings
9 each of the 3 exercises
15 Swings
8 each...etc...down to 1 with 15 swings between each set.

I DID get them all in 15 minutes and even beat my team-mate. Done...and I was DONE by the end. Finishing first was a surprise to me, but he did have a heavier kettlebell to swing than I did. That does have an effect at some point - we did a LOT of swings!

[Catrin]

Sharing more wildness in the workout world, and this time with a picture of my group! Sunday is always conditioning day, and it turned out to be "Hurricane Training Day". Normally this is on the treadmill with short fast sprints at an incline of 10 and two weighted exercises between each sprint. Today it was something else: sleds.

SOUNDS easy, push a sled with a 45 lb weight as fast as you can for 15 meters, turn it around and come back. Do 2 kettlebell exercises while your partner repeats push. Do each three times, then another of 3 with a different set of kettlebell exercises. Third set had banded planks rather than KB exercises. Here is a picture of us getting ready to go!

This is a little blurry, I am the one at the far end waiting to go. I love planks (mainly because I can do them for long periods of time), but they really change when you have a resistance band around your body! We held the position until our partner returned with the sled for us to push - our coach does believe in using guilt as a motivator from time to time

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[Crankin]

That sounds like torture.
I am ready to fall down dead tired. I went to boot camp 2 days in a row, as I am trying to get back on track after vacation, and now we have 3 days in CA for a wedding this weekend. My favorite instructor is now teaching on Monday and Tuesday. She did a really different workout on Monday and I felt great. Although today was different, there was some repetition of muscle groups, which was not good. Yesterday, I was peer pressured into using 2 risers on my step. She said it was just for resistance stuff, but we did do some cardio on the bench and I was fine, but it feels awkward. I have the cardio capacity, but I'm always afraid I am going to kill myself. I am particularly bad with the long resistance bands... sometimes I cannot figure what to do by watching, and I have to get personal "corrections." I hate this; I can do the exercises, but I can't figure out how to get into position to do them. Thankfully, she doesn't use the bands very often for upper body, sometimes for lower. It feels such a long way from when I was the one asking if I could touch someone to help them be in the correct position in my classes.

[Crankin]

DH started Boot Camp at the fitness center at work yesterday. He didn't think there would be so much running! It's all outside (yesterday was about 40 at 7 AM) and he feels pressured to "look good," because of his position in the company. His comment this morning was "at least I can walk," but he is going to have to modify some of the stuff, because after 3 days of riding in Vermont his knees aren't feeling too happy with running up and down the garage stairs 12 times.