Day 22: Workout (90 Day Challenge)

Last night a tornado and tornado siren woke me at 1:15 and kept Kristen and I in the basement until almost 2am. After that, I had a HORRIBlE time going back to sleep and an even WORSE time staying asleep as I knew 4:45 was approaching quickly. I hit my snooze button when my alarm went off for boot camp, and I almost talked myself into letting myself sleep and skipping the workout but I kept saying "Mind of Matter" and I drug myself out of bed.

Yesterday was a heavy cardio day and today was a heavy strength training day. We started with a cardio warmup for 10 minutes and then......we did a "whirlwind" workout which means we did each of the following exercises for 20 seconds with 8 seconds rest between. We repeated most exercises too times to really burn our muscles out. I challenged myself to do the leg muscles with my weights as well.

GOOD NEWS---- MY CHARLIE HORSE WAS GONE!!!

(there were a ton of exercises so I don't think I'll be able to remember them all)

• Military Presses
• Bicep Curls
• Lateral Raises
• Side Raises
• Hammer Curls
• Back Rows
• Tricep lifts to chin
• Runners Lunges
• Static Lunges
• Static Seat
• Squats
• Reverse Crunches
• Regular Crunches
• Flutter Kicks
• V-sits
• Bicycle Crunches
• Bicycle Forward
• Bicycle Backward
• Legs to the Heavens

Between every set of exercises we did a 45 second burst of cardio to maintain our heartrate. This included things like:

• mountain climbers
• jumping jacks
• butt kicks
• cross country skiers

The workout was a challenge. The most challenging part for me was the core work. Maybe this is something I need to put extra focus on to increase my strength. All in all, because I like a strength workout, this was a good morning........and I'm sure I'll feel it through out my day.