How Hard Can It Be? Lite

[Veronica]

Yesterday was plyo and core day with Shawna. She had brought her basset hounds, Ellie and Sid, to the studio. Ellie was "helping" me do my sideways low runs with a burpee at each end. Nothing like a hound dog kiss as you do your burpees! I ended my session with 4 rounds of sit ups coupled with Russian twists. The sit ups weren't bad, but for the twists I was using a twenty pound ball. Ouch!

Today's run felt a little better than Tuesday's. I really noticed the moon and Venus (I think ) this morning. Even though the moon is small, it was just beautiful.

Veronica

[Sky King]

You will rock it. One of the routines we are doing at work out is 90 seconds of slow movement controlled exercises. The hard one for me - but also a good all over body - start in up position of push up and take a full 30 seconds to lower yourself to the floor, then take a full 30 seconds to raise yourself back to start and then full 30 seconds to lower again with no break in between. Yes a bit of a challenge with the hand splint as I am gripping two dumb bells instead of having my hands flat on floor. Oh and keep your elbows tight to the side of you body. If need be we are allowed to put our knees on the floor which I had to do on the 3rd rotation yesterday

[Veronica]

Friday's trainer workout was upper body - flipped her monster tire 25 times, did 4 sets of 45 push ups - 15 incline, 15 decline and 15 flat. Then we did 5 sets of 10 pull ups, changing grips for each set - wide, medium, narrow, medium , wide . I did these with the narrow band assist. I can still only do one, two if I'm lucky, with no assist.

This weekend was super hot. We went to mountain bike at Round Valley on Saturday. Thom had read that one of the single track trails had been opened to mountain biking there. The signs for no bikes were still up on both ends of the trail, so we didn't ride it. It's widely used by hikers and equestrians, so no matter what the official park map may say - until they change the signs we won't ride it. Instead we went through Round Valley and headed UP towards Morgan Territory. That is one nasty, unrelenting climb. Good training and some nice views, but it was HOt!

Sunday we took the road bikes over to the coast and rode 35 miles there. It was about 25 degrees cooler there - low 70s when we started, mid 80s when we finished. When we got back to the house it was 98, much more pleasant at the coast.

This morning was legs again. We started with drop sets of leg press - 25 reps each at 360, 270, 180 pounds. I wonder how sore I'll be tomorrow.

Veronica

[Veronica]

A bit of a setback...

back in the spring I had some issues with my foot that have resurfaced. I think my foot does not like the stair climber. More specifically, I think it's something in the way I push off with my right foot on the stair climber. Just walking hurts, so running seemed like a bad idea.

Veronica

[Veronica]

Wednesday is normally plyo and core day. We did all core today, since plyos weren't happening with my foot. Twenty TRX pikes with a push up. Those are just freakin' hard on everything - arms, core, quads... Abs are going to be sore tomorrow.

Veronica

[Veronica]

My abs are so sore that when Tucker Cat kneads my belly it hurts.

Veronica

[Veronica]

Still can't run on my foot.

Yesterday was upper day with Shawna. We did 5 rounds of everything starting with chest press -10 reps at 95 pounds. That sucked. After doing chest and back, we did biceps and shoulders. The bicep set was 15 reps with 50 pounds. I wasn't sure I coukd do one set of 15 reps at 50 pounds. But dang I've gotten strong. It wasn't easy, but I did all 5 sets. We finished up with triceps. This included close in push ups with feet on a fit ball. My abs were still sore from Wed. so this kinda hard. My chest is sore today!

Veronica