The workouts this past week were to say the very least....interesting. First, let me start off saying that I did get in my extra workouts but it was tough! I ended up coming down with my very first cold of the winter season (and here I thought I was doing really good in not getting sick, darn!) and wasn't feeling like my normal self....whatever that may be.
Our first team workout on Tuesday morning wasn't that bad, but within the first 10 minutes I kinda had all of my teammates scared and thinking that I shouldn't be there. The reason being, I turned as white as a ghost and was not feeling so good. I then left the workout room, took a little breather, splashed some water on my face and went back to the workout room to finish what I'd started. I'm not one who gives up that easily, sick or not!
My teammates were completely surprised that I wanted to finish the workout and not call it a day. But I am a stubborn person and it's one thing that I'm proud of. By the end of the workout, which consisted of doing the following 50 times each, two times around: inverted pull-ups, squats with weights, lunges with 10lb weight, push-ups, over head presses and dead lifts, followed by our cool-down and stretches, I was feeling much better and the color was finally coming back to my face!
Thursday's training was a blast and due to this workout is where this week's title came from! We did lots of lower body workouts: sumo squats, sumo squat/walks, planks with side toe touches, burpees with leg lifts (remember to squeeze those glutes!), side lung with leg lift while holding 10lbs. From there we moved on to one minute full body workouts: more burpees(!), jumping jacks, squats with side kicks and mountain climbers. Then it was time to work the upper body (oh yeah) with the following: T push-ups, over head presses, inverted pull-ups, sprint on the treadmill and over head ball slams (which I love and is a great way to get some anger out!). Usually by this time we would be heading upstairs for our cool-down and stretches but since we had some extra time on our hands, it was back to the lower body workout for one last time!
By the end of Thursday's training...my hollywood thighs were starting to talk to me but it wasn't until I finished the low dance during Group Groove Thursday night, that my hollywood thighs were REALLY screaming at me!
I decided that it may be best to take an easy on Friday and not do anything that required a lot of lower body but that didn't quite work out, due to all of the walking one had to do. Saturday wasn't to bad, I started off with a 15 minute warm-up on the elliptical, followed by an awesome hour of Group Groove and finished with an 8 minute run (yes, that's right I said run) on the treadmill.
Here's to hoping that this coming week's weigh in shows how much I've been putting in to my workouts, since this past week there was no change on the scale. And with promise of Spring in the air and warmer weather on the way....who knows, maybe I'll be able to start running outside!
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