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!!!