I don't know who pissed Terri off this morning, but I will find you and I will hurt you. She straight-up SCARED me and Molly when she was giving us instructions of what we were doing today. She started by saying how she was going to "freaking lose it' if any of us grabbed 5 or 10 pound weights to do anything. And followed that by saying (well partially yelling) that "it should be hard - like, uncomfortable hard!". I swear, she kept building up steam each time she switched to a different instruction....Molly and I looked at each other and kept saying, "Why does she hate us? WE didn't piss her off!"
So, obviously, there is only one reason why Terri wanted to hurt us today....Josh must have angered her. And for that, he must pay. Maybe I won't wear deodorant to class all week, or maybe I will talk, loudly, about my menstrual cycle or descriptive details of the birth of my kids during BC this week. Just wait, Josh- you shall receive your punishment when you least expect it!
I DO have to say that I pushed myself HARD today. As in, I freaking did handstand push ups today. It's okay - don't rub your eyes or squint to see if you read that correctly. It says HANDSTAND. As in, I was on my hands lowering myself down and pushing myself back up. WHAT?!?!? Several of us did them and I was SO PROUD of us! We have come such a long way!
Another little fun exercise we did (that is dripping with sarcasm, by the way) are body rocks - or something like that. I don't pay a ton of attention to the names of anything because all my efforts go into trying not to die while I'm performing them. :) The body rocks are when you lay on your back and hold your legs out and arms up and literally rock your body back and forth. The kicker is that you have to hold your lower back flat to the floor. I seriously felt muscles contract that I did not remember having!!! Like behind my uterus - which almost was like being in labor again. Which, honestly, sounds like a little slice of heaven compared to some of the sessions I have had at BC !!!!
And the WEIGHTS today! Holy schnikees. 100 lb dead lifts, 120 lb Farmer Carry, 40 lb front squats...those are just several exercises that we did. Pretty sure two of my vertebrae decided to disintegrate after the heavy weights and the wall ball squats :) . Who needs a spine anyway?!?!?
High Point: Able to Clean Press 20 times during the workout without snapping my back in half :)
Low Point: Starting to jump rope and when I did the first jump, the rope hit the pull up bar and snapped back right in my face...awesome.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Sunday, March 24, 2013
I Wonder if Methadone Curbs BC Withdrawls.....
Since I (along with my other lovely ladies I work out with) have been going 5 days/week to OK Fit, it has become an obsession. Like if I don't workout on my day off, I feel guilty. Or if I don't work out for FOUR days over Spring Break, I have the shakes/can't sleep/have Josh and Terri in my nightmares screaming at me. Okay, maybe not THAT extreme, but I feel like I have probably gained 10 pounds and my cardiovascular system is shriveling away. Do you see what this place does to its members?!?! You feel like your body is literally rotting away if you don't work out at least 5 or 6 days a week! Curse you, OK Fit!!! :)
OK Fit was closed Thursday-Sat this week because Josh and Terri wanted to spend time with their kids on Spring Break. This equals disaster for Katie....because now that I am used to Josh or Terri pushing me to go harder or faster, I totally suck at working out by myself. TOTALLY. SUCK.
I ran on the treadmill - intervals of 7.0 and 5.0 - for 30 minutes and then did some strength training. However, at the end, I knew I hadn't pushed hard enough - I didn't feel like I wanted to die/vomit/collapse, so I knew I did not work as hard as I would have at OK Fit. Therefore, I proceeded to throw a pity party for the last 4 days and do nothing but take a walk around my neighborhood with the kids as exercise.
Soooo....I am looking into some sort of intravenous caffeine therapy tomorrow morning to prepare me for the HELL that awaits me at BC. It should be fun, folks. Look for an update this week on how my body is dealing with the shock of having to actually work hard again. Most likely, there will be tears, vomit, inappropriate bladder issues.......and that will all probably happen on Monday.
If you are a praying individual, throw an extra one in there for me tonight! :)
Here are my kids and I running in the St. Patty's Day Run to benefit Special Olympics - we had a blast dressing up and running for a great cause!
OK Fit was closed Thursday-Sat this week because Josh and Terri wanted to spend time with their kids on Spring Break. This equals disaster for Katie....because now that I am used to Josh or Terri pushing me to go harder or faster, I totally suck at working out by myself. TOTALLY. SUCK.
I ran on the treadmill - intervals of 7.0 and 5.0 - for 30 minutes and then did some strength training. However, at the end, I knew I hadn't pushed hard enough - I didn't feel like I wanted to die/vomit/collapse, so I knew I did not work as hard as I would have at OK Fit. Therefore, I proceeded to throw a pity party for the last 4 days and do nothing but take a walk around my neighborhood with the kids as exercise.
Soooo....I am looking into some sort of intravenous caffeine therapy tomorrow morning to prepare me for the HELL that awaits me at BC. It should be fun, folks. Look for an update this week on how my body is dealing with the shock of having to actually work hard again. Most likely, there will be tears, vomit, inappropriate bladder issues.......and that will all probably happen on Monday.
If you are a praying individual, throw an extra one in there for me tonight! :)
Here are my kids and I running in the St. Patty's Day Run to benefit Special Olympics - we had a blast dressing up and running for a great cause!
Here are the kids over Spring Break - they went on a business trip with me and had more fun swimming at the hotel pool than anything else!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Wall Ball Squats - A Whole New Kind of Hell....
Hi. My name is Katie and I am a bootcamp-aholic. No, seriously, I possibly need to be committed. I don't know what Josh and Terri put in the water jug at that place, but it makes all my common sense go away and brainwashes me into thinking I need to do boot camp twice a day. Ya that's right - you read that correctly - TWICE today. And I could not have picked a WORSE day to go twice- SO. FREAKING. HARD.
We did Crossfit on crack today....as I kindly refer to it. There were five stations set up and three exercises at each station. We stay at each station 7 and a half minutes and just repeat the exercises until the time is up. I'll break down the stations for you (mainly because it is part of my therapy to write these all down so I can face the reality that I am actually going insane for loving every minute of it!):
Station 1:
10 Clean Press (barbell with weights that you dead lift into a squat and then shoulder press it up over your head)
10 Handstand Push ups (EXACTLY what they sound like)
10 Burpees
Station 2:
50 Squats
30 Push ups
20 Thrusters
Station 3: (all on the TRX suspended rope things)
15 Pikes (both feet are suspended and while in the push up position, you raise your butt in the air in a pike position and then straighten out again)
15 Tricep presses
15 Rows
Station 4:
15 Kettle bell Swings
20 Wall Ball Squats (With both hands, throwing a big weighted ball up high against a wall and then catching it and go immediately into a squat and then throw it right back up...I'll write more about these in a bit)
10 High Knees Sprawl (run in place with your knees high 10 times and then drop to the ground where your stomach and chest are on the floor and push yourself back up and start over)
Station 5
Max number of Pull Ups (go until you cant pull yourself up anymore)
15 Box Jumps
50 Jump Ropes
I would like to focus on Station 1 and Station 4....mainly because those are what should be listed in the medical report as my Causes of Death. The Clean Press (I think that's the name of it - who knows?!?! All the blood left my brain to help assist my legs on this one) was difficult but I managed to do 22 of them. But SO much energy was put into those, that everything after that was hell.
By the time I got to Station 4, I was exhausted.....like didn't know if I was going to puke or poo my pants, exhausted. Luckily, I did not do either of those and was able to start Station 4. The kettle bell swings are not that bad - not fun - but not the worst thing ever. The next exercise is the worst thing ever- wall ball squats. It seems like it would not be that big of a deal to throw a ball into the air but, holy crap, I felt nauseated and like there was a vice around my lungs during most of them. And then to move right to High Knee Sprawls?!?! I'm sure Josh and Terri sat and just laughed when they were writing up all these exercises.....it gives them pure joy to see us on the verge of puking. Sickos. :)
After Josh called "Time!" on our last station, it was literally quiet in the room for like 30 seconds. And suddenly Amy, who normally talks all the time, just said, "Yep, I'm going to be sick". And right after that Josh said, "Why is there a jump rope in the bathroom?". To which I replied, "When you said 'Time', I literally threw my jump rope as far as I could".
It was THAT kind of day....Josh started the workout by telling us we should all feel like s*# t by the end and guess what? We did....FO SHO.
We did Crossfit on crack today....as I kindly refer to it. There were five stations set up and three exercises at each station. We stay at each station 7 and a half minutes and just repeat the exercises until the time is up. I'll break down the stations for you (mainly because it is part of my therapy to write these all down so I can face the reality that I am actually going insane for loving every minute of it!):
Station 1:
10 Clean Press (barbell with weights that you dead lift into a squat and then shoulder press it up over your head)
10 Handstand Push ups (EXACTLY what they sound like)
10 Burpees
Station 2:
50 Squats
30 Push ups
20 Thrusters
Station 3: (all on the TRX suspended rope things)
15 Pikes (both feet are suspended and while in the push up position, you raise your butt in the air in a pike position and then straighten out again)
15 Tricep presses
15 Rows
Station 4:
15 Kettle bell Swings
20 Wall Ball Squats (With both hands, throwing a big weighted ball up high against a wall and then catching it and go immediately into a squat and then throw it right back up...I'll write more about these in a bit)
10 High Knees Sprawl (run in place with your knees high 10 times and then drop to the ground where your stomach and chest are on the floor and push yourself back up and start over)
Station 5
Max number of Pull Ups (go until you cant pull yourself up anymore)
15 Box Jumps
50 Jump Ropes
I would like to focus on Station 1 and Station 4....mainly because those are what should be listed in the medical report as my Causes of Death. The Clean Press (I think that's the name of it - who knows?!?! All the blood left my brain to help assist my legs on this one) was difficult but I managed to do 22 of them. But SO much energy was put into those, that everything after that was hell.
By the time I got to Station 4, I was exhausted.....like didn't know if I was going to puke or poo my pants, exhausted. Luckily, I did not do either of those and was able to start Station 4. The kettle bell swings are not that bad - not fun - but not the worst thing ever. The next exercise is the worst thing ever- wall ball squats. It seems like it would not be that big of a deal to throw a ball into the air but, holy crap, I felt nauseated and like there was a vice around my lungs during most of them. And then to move right to High Knee Sprawls?!?! I'm sure Josh and Terri sat and just laughed when they were writing up all these exercises.....it gives them pure joy to see us on the verge of puking. Sickos. :)
After Josh called "Time!" on our last station, it was literally quiet in the room for like 30 seconds. And suddenly Amy, who normally talks all the time, just said, "Yep, I'm going to be sick". And right after that Josh said, "Why is there a jump rope in the bathroom?". To which I replied, "When you said 'Time', I literally threw my jump rope as far as I could".
It was THAT kind of day....Josh started the workout by telling us we should all feel like s*# t by the end and guess what? We did....FO SHO.
Shawntia, Me, and Molly (CrazyTrain Crew) after the workout today---
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This is poor Susan's leg after the Clean Press. She got it up (awesome!!!) but when she dropped it, it hit and rolled down her leg. Battle wound!!!!  |
Hacking and Five Days.....
Holy toledo, its been over a week since I've blogged! Perhaps it is because my body will only allow so much energy to be exerted and it is getting all used up during BC. Let me go back a week or so.....
I'm finishing up a workout at BC and Terri asks me if it is about time to take my measurements again to see my improvemements. I was so excited to see my results! I had lost body fat percentage, weight, AND inches! Who knew this whole exercise thing worked?!?!?! Urgh, I hate admitting when Josh is right. Terri told me all that stuff too, but she's sweet so I can admit when she was correct about something! :)
ANYWHO, after getting my awesome results read back to me, Josh proceeds to tell me that I will continue to maintain some of my changes but, at some point, 3 days a week will end up with me plateauing. I knew what was coming...don't say it, don't say it...."We think you would really benefit from 4 or 5 days a week"......crap, he said it. Sigh. Therefore, guess who has been 5 days/week for the past couple weeks?!?! That's right - THIS GIRL! Molly, Monica, and I have been religious about going - if we can't bounce quarters off our asses by June, we're raising hell. :)
Oh, and I have officially boarded the Crazy Train (I tease a gal I work out with, Shawntia, that she is the conductor of the Two Workouts Per Day Crazy Train because she comes twice a day!!!!) because I went twice last Thursday, which was Fitness Test Day.
Freaking Fitness Test day....urgh. The first time I found out we were being tested, I imagined it would be like when I was 9 years old and I had to complete the Presidents Physical Fitness test in gym class. Remember? We had to try to do a pull up and some sit ups and then run from one side of the gym to the other and place blocks on the floor. Fast forward to Josh and Terri's fitness test.....O. M. G.
We first saw how many military sit ups and man push ups we can do in 1 minute. Then we count how many jump squats we can do in 2 minutes. No, that is not a typo - we have to jump in the air and land in a squat repeatedly for TWO minutes....might as well just take a cigarette lighter and burn my quads because it is the same sensation as doing those! Then we hold a plank for as long as we can and record the time. That all seems doable, right? That's what I thought, too....and then they announced that we were starting the second part of the fitness test. Say what? SECOND part??? What if my body is going into Operation Fetal Position and cramping up after the FIRST part?!?!?! Plus, I have some sort of upper respiratory stuff that will NOT go away. It sounds like I have been smoking for a good 30 years when I cough. So you can imagine how I sound during exercise - like a wheezing, hacking mess. Everyone around me is probably THRILLED that they get to experience my illness firsthand! :)
The second part of the test is the real kicker. We have to perform 21 mountain climbers, 21 box jumps, and 21 squat thrusters, and then sprint approximately 150 Meters. Then we start over and do 15 mountain climbers, 15 box jumps, etc, etc. By the end, we have done a round of 21, 15, and 9 (and sprinting after each set). All of that is timed so when we have our follow up fitness test we, hopefully, get faster at all of it! Honestly, the fitness test sucks but it does give you a good idea of how far you've come! My time improved BIG TIME the second time around!
I now have to brag on someone! Kate, my best friend since we were kids - seriously, I have known her since 2nd grade - started BC last week! And I am so impressed with her toughness! She started last Wednesday and went Thursday AND Friday too! For those of you who remember your first week of BC, trying to work out when you are that sore is absolute torture. Plus, Kate has basically been out of commission the past couple years because she had her babies so close together, so she has totally thrown herself into BC and actually really likes it. That's right, people - I got her to drink the kool aid. Because how else do you convince someone to put themselves through the crap we do at BC?!?! Seriously, start saying some of the stuff we do out loud ......it is quite humorous. Humorous, insane, ridiculous...it all blurs together after a while! :)
This was after the Fitness Test so we all look BEAUTIFUL! :) We were missing Molly - she was galavanting up in Nebraska while we were dry heaving during Mountain Climbers.
Left to Right:
Whitney, Me, Shawntia, Monica, and Sara
I'm finishing up a workout at BC and Terri asks me if it is about time to take my measurements again to see my improvemements. I was so excited to see my results! I had lost body fat percentage, weight, AND inches! Who knew this whole exercise thing worked?!?!?! Urgh, I hate admitting when Josh is right. Terri told me all that stuff too, but she's sweet so I can admit when she was correct about something! :)
ANYWHO, after getting my awesome results read back to me, Josh proceeds to tell me that I will continue to maintain some of my changes but, at some point, 3 days a week will end up with me plateauing. I knew what was coming...don't say it, don't say it...."We think you would really benefit from 4 or 5 days a week"......crap, he said it. Sigh. Therefore, guess who has been 5 days/week for the past couple weeks?!?! That's right - THIS GIRL! Molly, Monica, and I have been religious about going - if we can't bounce quarters off our asses by June, we're raising hell. :)
Oh, and I have officially boarded the Crazy Train (I tease a gal I work out with, Shawntia, that she is the conductor of the Two Workouts Per Day Crazy Train because she comes twice a day!!!!) because I went twice last Thursday, which was Fitness Test Day.
Freaking Fitness Test day....urgh. The first time I found out we were being tested, I imagined it would be like when I was 9 years old and I had to complete the Presidents Physical Fitness test in gym class. Remember? We had to try to do a pull up and some sit ups and then run from one side of the gym to the other and place blocks on the floor. Fast forward to Josh and Terri's fitness test.....O. M. G.
We first saw how many military sit ups and man push ups we can do in 1 minute. Then we count how many jump squats we can do in 2 minutes. No, that is not a typo - we have to jump in the air and land in a squat repeatedly for TWO minutes....might as well just take a cigarette lighter and burn my quads because it is the same sensation as doing those! Then we hold a plank for as long as we can and record the time. That all seems doable, right? That's what I thought, too....and then they announced that we were starting the second part of the fitness test. Say what? SECOND part??? What if my body is going into Operation Fetal Position and cramping up after the FIRST part?!?!?! Plus, I have some sort of upper respiratory stuff that will NOT go away. It sounds like I have been smoking for a good 30 years when I cough. So you can imagine how I sound during exercise - like a wheezing, hacking mess. Everyone around me is probably THRILLED that they get to experience my illness firsthand! :)
The second part of the test is the real kicker. We have to perform 21 mountain climbers, 21 box jumps, and 21 squat thrusters, and then sprint approximately 150 Meters. Then we start over and do 15 mountain climbers, 15 box jumps, etc, etc. By the end, we have done a round of 21, 15, and 9 (and sprinting after each set). All of that is timed so when we have our follow up fitness test we, hopefully, get faster at all of it! Honestly, the fitness test sucks but it does give you a good idea of how far you've come! My time improved BIG TIME the second time around!
I now have to brag on someone! Kate, my best friend since we were kids - seriously, I have known her since 2nd grade - started BC last week! And I am so impressed with her toughness! She started last Wednesday and went Thursday AND Friday too! For those of you who remember your first week of BC, trying to work out when you are that sore is absolute torture. Plus, Kate has basically been out of commission the past couple years because she had her babies so close together, so she has totally thrown herself into BC and actually really likes it. That's right, people - I got her to drink the kool aid. Because how else do you convince someone to put themselves through the crap we do at BC?!?! Seriously, start saying some of the stuff we do out loud ......it is quite humorous. Humorous, insane, ridiculous...it all blurs together after a while! :)
This was after the Fitness Test so we all look BEAUTIFUL! :) We were missing Molly - she was galavanting up in Nebraska while we were dry heaving during Mountain Climbers.
Left to Right:
Whitney, Me, Shawntia, Monica, and Sara
This is one of my favorite pictures of me and Kate. It was on my wedding day- just love that girl!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Mike Tyson Ain't Got Nuthin On Us.......
Before Mike Tyson gets wind of this post and tries to hunt me down and hurts me, I don't ACTUALLY think I can hit as hard as he can. Pretty close....but I need a little more practice. :)
As you have probably already guessed we boxed today at BC! I LOVE boxing but it is the hardest workout. No wonder those professional boxers look so fit! We only did it for 45 minutes and I lost half my body weight in sweat!
Molly and I partnered up and we had to do a sequence where Molly jumped rope while I had to box. I had to finish 100 jabs, 50 uppercuts, 15 push ups, 15 jump squats, and 200 fast punches (might have screwed up the order of those, but you get the picture!) before Molly could stop jumping rope....bless her heart. When I finally finished, she walked over to me and said, "You might want to hit the restroom before jumping"....ah, she knows me too well (if you are new, please refer to my Bladders, Boot camp, and Babies post to grasp the severity of what happens while doing any sort of jumping at BC).
Side note to all my fellow BC GIRL members: avoid the restroom right next to the lockers. I learned the hard way that it is definitely the MALE bathroom- no toilet paper and the sink doesn't work....lliterally every man's dream and every woman's nightmare.
It wouldn't really be a complete day at BC if I don't have some sort of spaz issue or klutzy fall, so here it goes: I probably look like a dog (no opposable thumbs) when I put on, and take off, my boxing gloves. Josh had to keep telling me like 3 minutes in advance of when it was my turn to box so I could get my gloves on in time. And because I apparently have no ability to get them off by myself, I did all my ab work while still wearing them. How awesome did I look Side Planking and doing Sprinter Sit Ups with big red boxing gloves on? Well, I was called "Captain Kangaroo" and "Impossible" several times - so that should answer THAT question.
Contemplating the 5:30am class tomorrow.....I obviously must have hit my head during today's workout!
High Point: Got to watch Molly box and now have a visual goal of what I want my arms to look like - she's so buff!
Low Point: Took almost 10 minutes to wash my hair today because my arms are so freaking tired! Sorry to everyone that stands next to me tomorrow- I don't really know if my whole head got washed.....
As you have probably already guessed we boxed today at BC! I LOVE boxing but it is the hardest workout. No wonder those professional boxers look so fit! We only did it for 45 minutes and I lost half my body weight in sweat!
Molly and I partnered up and we had to do a sequence where Molly jumped rope while I had to box. I had to finish 100 jabs, 50 uppercuts, 15 push ups, 15 jump squats, and 200 fast punches (might have screwed up the order of those, but you get the picture!) before Molly could stop jumping rope....bless her heart. When I finally finished, she walked over to me and said, "You might want to hit the restroom before jumping"....ah, she knows me too well (if you are new, please refer to my Bladders, Boot camp, and Babies post to grasp the severity of what happens while doing any sort of jumping at BC).
Side note to all my fellow BC GIRL members: avoid the restroom right next to the lockers. I learned the hard way that it is definitely the MALE bathroom- no toilet paper and the sink doesn't work....lliterally every man's dream and every woman's nightmare.
It wouldn't really be a complete day at BC if I don't have some sort of spaz issue or klutzy fall, so here it goes: I probably look like a dog (no opposable thumbs) when I put on, and take off, my boxing gloves. Josh had to keep telling me like 3 minutes in advance of when it was my turn to box so I could get my gloves on in time. And because I apparently have no ability to get them off by myself, I did all my ab work while still wearing them. How awesome did I look Side Planking and doing Sprinter Sit Ups with big red boxing gloves on? Well, I was called "Captain Kangaroo" and "Impossible" several times - so that should answer THAT question.
Contemplating the 5:30am class tomorrow.....I obviously must have hit my head during today's workout!
High Point: Got to watch Molly box and now have a visual goal of what I want my arms to look like - she's so buff!
Low Point: Took almost 10 minutes to wash my hair today because my arms are so freaking tired! Sorry to everyone that stands next to me tomorrow- I don't really know if my whole head got washed.....
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Cow Roping and Paper Plate Violence......
BC on Monday was quite the sight. We did all TRX training (rope things that hang from the ceiling so we can do suspension stuff) and some running. One of my fellow BC gals put it perfectly - nothing like getting roped up like a baby cow to make you feel awesome! Urgh....
It's never a good sign when Terri is showing us some of the moves we are doing and says, "It's Josh's goal to get here in time to see Katie do the Burpee on these [the TRX rope things]". First of all - it is terrifying, and somewhat concerning, how horrendous I am on those TRX ropes. Secondly, it's even worse that others have recognized the absolute absurdity of how I look while trying to contort my body into the exercise moves we are supposed to be doing.....sigh.....
The burpee on the TRX rope goes like this: place one foot in the strap and then drop into a push up - with your leg still suspended in the air behind you- and then hop back up into a standing position and jump. May I remind you that this is ALL ON ONE FOOT!!!! WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! Pretty sure I should have paid closer attention to the "find your balance" emphasis in the one yoga class I took.
We also did a move where we have BOTH feet in the straps - suspended behind us- and have to do a push up and then pull our knees to our chest and then back out...then repeat. OH MY LORD, where do I even start with this one? Let's see, maybe I should start with the fact that the minute I got my feet in the straps and out in the push up position, my legs completely rotated 180 degrees? So I went to my knees and got back in the push up position and it happened again! I did a complete circle - which I think should count for at least once or two plank exercises but, APPARENTLY, Josh and Terri do not encourage making up our own exercise moves on the TRX things.....whatever.
The next day we did Black Jack - 21 reps of 3,000 exercises. It might as well have been 3,000- that's how my butt and arms feel today. I still am questioning the whole thing because can't you "pass" on certain cards in the game of Blackjack? I did NOT get to "pass" or choose anything yesterday - what a rip off! After we finished, we played a game where we divided into two teams. There was a line of paper plates down the center of the room and one team was on one side and the other team was on the opposite side. When Josh called out our numbers (each of us were assigned numbers) one member on each team raced to get a paper plate. Whoever got it first runs back to their side and the other team can chase them down and tag them. Last time I played this game, I bit it.....hard. I might have gotten a little overzealous in my "snatch the plate" attempt! So this time, I made sure to try to keep my balance. I have to say, this game can get violent. The morning class had a gal get stabbed by another gal's ring, I twisted my ankle when I tried to avoid the pillar (which is not small, I am just a spaz) in the middle of the room, and a guy in our class almost knocked himself out because he almost ran into the wall! IT WAS SO FUN! I was exhausted and sore, but I had a blast! Oh, and my team won- woop, woop!!!!
Ok, I am off to BC - wish me luck!
High point- Josh and Terri did my measurements and I lost body fat percentage, inches, and weight. FINE, I'll say it - this whole hard exercise stuff works!
Low point: Confessing that I took ballet, tap, and jazz for 19 years the other day when I couldn't figure out what leg to bend! Pretty sure I have just further baffled Josh and Terri in their quest to understand how klutzy/uncoordinated I am!
It's never a good sign when Terri is showing us some of the moves we are doing and says, "It's Josh's goal to get here in time to see Katie do the Burpee on these [the TRX rope things]". First of all - it is terrifying, and somewhat concerning, how horrendous I am on those TRX ropes. Secondly, it's even worse that others have recognized the absolute absurdity of how I look while trying to contort my body into the exercise moves we are supposed to be doing.....sigh.....
The burpee on the TRX rope goes like this: place one foot in the strap and then drop into a push up - with your leg still suspended in the air behind you- and then hop back up into a standing position and jump. May I remind you that this is ALL ON ONE FOOT!!!! WHAT THE HELL?!?!?! Pretty sure I should have paid closer attention to the "find your balance" emphasis in the one yoga class I took.
We also did a move where we have BOTH feet in the straps - suspended behind us- and have to do a push up and then pull our knees to our chest and then back out...then repeat. OH MY LORD, where do I even start with this one? Let's see, maybe I should start with the fact that the minute I got my feet in the straps and out in the push up position, my legs completely rotated 180 degrees? So I went to my knees and got back in the push up position and it happened again! I did a complete circle - which I think should count for at least once or two plank exercises but, APPARENTLY, Josh and Terri do not encourage making up our own exercise moves on the TRX things.....whatever.
The next day we did Black Jack - 21 reps of 3,000 exercises. It might as well have been 3,000- that's how my butt and arms feel today. I still am questioning the whole thing because can't you "pass" on certain cards in the game of Blackjack? I did NOT get to "pass" or choose anything yesterday - what a rip off! After we finished, we played a game where we divided into two teams. There was a line of paper plates down the center of the room and one team was on one side and the other team was on the opposite side. When Josh called out our numbers (each of us were assigned numbers) one member on each team raced to get a paper plate. Whoever got it first runs back to their side and the other team can chase them down and tag them. Last time I played this game, I bit it.....hard. I might have gotten a little overzealous in my "snatch the plate" attempt! So this time, I made sure to try to keep my balance. I have to say, this game can get violent. The morning class had a gal get stabbed by another gal's ring, I twisted my ankle when I tried to avoid the pillar (which is not small, I am just a spaz) in the middle of the room, and a guy in our class almost knocked himself out because he almost ran into the wall! IT WAS SO FUN! I was exhausted and sore, but I had a blast! Oh, and my team won- woop, woop!!!!
Ok, I am off to BC - wish me luck!
High point- Josh and Terri did my measurements and I lost body fat percentage, inches, and weight. FINE, I'll say it - this whole hard exercise stuff works!
Low point: Confessing that I took ballet, tap, and jazz for 19 years the other day when I couldn't figure out what leg to bend! Pretty sure I have just further baffled Josh and Terri in their quest to understand how klutzy/uncoordinated I am!
Friday, February 15, 2013
Terri Has Made the List......
Oh sweet Terri. She has always been the gentle, sweet instructor at OK Fit (BC). She's tough in that she doesn't let us quit and has GREAT workouts, but she always has a little encouraging word or high five for us. HOW-EV-A ( and I say that in my best Queen Latifah voice), she's now on my list. She put our abs through some kind of hell today.
We did Deck of Cards with just ab exercises (and some push ups) and there were no Mason Twists. So I thought, "This will hurt but won't kill me". Wrong....dead, freaking wrong. We did some flutter kicks (not horrendous but still hard), push ups, mountain jumpers (yes, they are vomit-inducers, that's all you need to know), and sprinter sit ups. I am going to focus on the last one because it seems that those were the only words Terri knew how to say for approximately 10 minutes. :)
The sprinter sit up is when you lay on your back with your hands behind your head and then sit up while picking up one of your legs and trying to touch your opposite elbow with it. Now, we did these yesterday at BC and I loved them - seriously! But we only had to do 10 at a time. We were doing a Progression Workout (which was awesome) so we only had to do 10 of everything and then run. Therefore, I could always see a light at the end of the tunnel. With the Deck of Cards, its never ending- Terri could flip over a 5 and then flip over a 10 so now we have 15 reps to do. Side Note: I am never playing poker with her - she HAS to be a cheater. It's not possible that there were THAT many cards synonymous with the Sprinter Sit ups in that deck. Or maybe it was the blurred vision, roaring pain in my abdominal area, and the bile in my throat that was impairing my judgement of how many we were actually doing. Is it possible to have swollen ab muscles? Because I am pretty sure mine were throbbing and swollen after that.
Maybe I could have gotten past the tragedy that we call the Deck of Cards workout...but Terri added two exercises in the rotation we were doing that I can't forgive. Mason Twists (you know my feelings about those) and Man Makers. Oh, I forgot to mention that the mason twists were weighted....did I not make it abundantly clear that I hate REGULAR mason twists? There is an obvious conspiracy happening here...
On to Man Makers - hold on, I have to take a break from typing because my shoulders are so sore from these. Okay - I have them propped up on some boxes so I can finish :) Man Makers are when you hold two dumbbells and go from a standing position down into a push up position, and do a row on each arm then do a push up THEN stand up and do a squat. That's ONE man maker....I'm getting sweaty just typing about it.
After the combination of what Terri put us through, she has now made my bad list and I shall have to start resorting to calling her names in my head like I do to Josh. It's a shame because she is so sweet but I can not discriminate when it comes to forced mason twists and man makers :) They both shall come off the list (maybe) when I am wearing a bikini this summer without a sarong tied up to my collar bone to hide everything. :)
High Point: I just did three days of BC in a row without passing out, pulling a muscle, or hiding in the bathroom until class was over! BONUS: Molly, Monica, Amy, Susan, and I decided we could do a lap around the block after BC was over!
Low point: Realizing that my new running shoes don't make me look like the Brazilian model that was wearing them in the catalogue....stupid advertising, I fall for it every time!!!
We did Deck of Cards with just ab exercises (and some push ups) and there were no Mason Twists. So I thought, "This will hurt but won't kill me". Wrong....dead, freaking wrong. We did some flutter kicks (not horrendous but still hard), push ups, mountain jumpers (yes, they are vomit-inducers, that's all you need to know), and sprinter sit ups. I am going to focus on the last one because it seems that those were the only words Terri knew how to say for approximately 10 minutes. :)
The sprinter sit up is when you lay on your back with your hands behind your head and then sit up while picking up one of your legs and trying to touch your opposite elbow with it. Now, we did these yesterday at BC and I loved them - seriously! But we only had to do 10 at a time. We were doing a Progression Workout (which was awesome) so we only had to do 10 of everything and then run. Therefore, I could always see a light at the end of the tunnel. With the Deck of Cards, its never ending- Terri could flip over a 5 and then flip over a 10 so now we have 15 reps to do. Side Note: I am never playing poker with her - she HAS to be a cheater. It's not possible that there were THAT many cards synonymous with the Sprinter Sit ups in that deck. Or maybe it was the blurred vision, roaring pain in my abdominal area, and the bile in my throat that was impairing my judgement of how many we were actually doing. Is it possible to have swollen ab muscles? Because I am pretty sure mine were throbbing and swollen after that.
Maybe I could have gotten past the tragedy that we call the Deck of Cards workout...but Terri added two exercises in the rotation we were doing that I can't forgive. Mason Twists (you know my feelings about those) and Man Makers. Oh, I forgot to mention that the mason twists were weighted....did I not make it abundantly clear that I hate REGULAR mason twists? There is an obvious conspiracy happening here...
On to Man Makers - hold on, I have to take a break from typing because my shoulders are so sore from these. Okay - I have them propped up on some boxes so I can finish :) Man Makers are when you hold two dumbbells and go from a standing position down into a push up position, and do a row on each arm then do a push up THEN stand up and do a squat. That's ONE man maker....I'm getting sweaty just typing about it.
After the combination of what Terri put us through, she has now made my bad list and I shall have to start resorting to calling her names in my head like I do to Josh. It's a shame because she is so sweet but I can not discriminate when it comes to forced mason twists and man makers :) They both shall come off the list (maybe) when I am wearing a bikini this summer without a sarong tied up to my collar bone to hide everything. :)
High Point: I just did three days of BC in a row without passing out, pulling a muscle, or hiding in the bathroom until class was over! BONUS: Molly, Monica, Amy, Susan, and I decided we could do a lap around the block after BC was over!
Low point: Realizing that my new running shoes don't make me look like the Brazilian model that was wearing them in the catalogue....stupid advertising, I fall for it every time!!!
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