Thursday, March 25, 2010 Workout

I was pleasantly suprised to see that it was 48 degrees outside when I went to boot camp....PERFECT workout temp! It was only about 10 minutes into the workout that I had my sweatshirt off! It was also the first time that I smelled grass this year. We did a ton of our work on the grass so my face was literally in the grass and I was picking grass off my hands. It smelled so fresh and good! Mmmmmm....

There were loads of people at boot camp today which was motivating...good thing because I didn't sleep much at all last night so I needed the motivation!

 

We did a very high paced circuit type workout (literally, we didn't have a breathing or water break once). As you read below it's going to seem like a TON of different exercises, but it was! We honestly did all of these!

 

We started with loads of different stair steps and hops and leg lift things (but it was on a curb so it wasn't very high compared to our normal stair steps). This got the heart rate up!

Then we formed a big circle in the parking lot then we'd do an exercise into the center and do it back out to our starting position. Exercises include:

• Sprints
• lunges (with weights)
• grapevine
• shuffle
• hopping (not good for shin splints)
• high knees
• butt kicks, etc.  
• bear crawls
• inch worms (hate them, my body isn't made for this)

Between each of the circle drills we went to our mats and did a combo of the following exercises:

• normal push ups
• wide push ups
• narrow push ups
• military presses
• rows
• over head lifts
• flys
• tricep extensions
• tricep overhead lifts
• crunches
• crunches with individual legs up
• plank with different ways of lifting your legs
• flutter kicks

Then,  in the midst of all of it, some of the stuff was done with the resistance bands. We did:

• Chariot pulls- forward, backward & both sides (the tops of my thighs were burning!)
• rows for our backs 

Well, I'm SURE that I missed some things but this is what I remembered. It wa sa good workout. Now I'm icing my legs : )