Have I ever mentioned how much I love to sleep in? You can talk to anyone in my family or my friends, and they will tell you how much I love a good snooze until 10:00 or later. It is really a bummer for the people at my house that are morning people. It is not my job to plan early things on Saturday, and if I go to church on Saturday night, then Sunday morning too. This makes it especially bad for the Saturday 10:00 am work outs.
This morning I got up at 8:30 and quickly ate a bowl of cereal. I am still finishing up the box of Special K - with Berries, and it's a good thing it's almost gone, because the dried strawberry's are getting mushy. Gaaaag! I try to eat at least an hour before my workout because my stomach doesn't always love the exercise I am doing. I changed into my workout clothes and left in plenty of time to get there.
I was glad to see that the other three amigos were there, ready to work out, when I got there. And Ron had an extra special day planned for us. He is real big on doing circut workouts. We started with squats, then lunges, then bar work, then we were off lunging across the gym, to the next station. There we did 25 quick steps up and down on a box, hanging leg raises, more box steps, chest presses, and more box work, then lunges to the next station. Does anyone remember Groucho Marx? He used to do this crouching, knees bent, wiggling his eyebrows, and waiving his cigar when he walked thing. It was as if he was doing a purma lunge, and was in a real big hurry. Well, that's what we looked like skulking across the gym in our lunge walk. The only thing missing was the waggling eyebrows and the cigars. ANYWAY....we went from the box up, down things, to bicep curl on the machine, then mountain climbers, then we had to RUN to the next station, where we would start over. Run....HA! That's good....
Two things really got to me on this circut. The first being that the hanging leg lift is hard! It isn't so bad when you step up into the machine, facing outwards, you put your elbows in the arm holders, and step off, where you dangle, then lift your legs up and down. The problem with me was that I stepped into the contraption, held myself up, and stepped off only to have my weight shift to where my shoulders were almost above the top of my head. I felt like a water balloon, and believe me, it didn't feel good. I hoisted myself up and managed to do the 20 lifts, the first go around, then on the second go around, I did individual leg lifts. Right, left, right, left, except I looked like I was running in mid-air. Not good form at all. And it hurt! The third and final time we were supposed to do that exercise, there were two people using the machine, so we got a break...but it didn't set well with me, so when we were done, I went over and did the 20 leg lifts we were supposed to do, the regular, legs together way. Call me a brown noser, but I really wanted to finish the entire cycle.
The second thing is that when we were doing the bicep curls, it was done on a machine with pullys. There is a top hook, and a bottom hook. We were using the bottom hook with the barbell on one of those carabiner (climbing hook - sp?) type connectors. The top connector had a single handle that looked like a stirrup (horse saddle type) on it. When you pull up to do the curls, the top hook jiggles just slightly. No big deal...usually. Well I got to that machine, and went to do my first curl, but realized that Popeye must have been before me with how heavy it was, so I adjusted the weight down. I was really curling away, when something fell from above me, hitting me on the forehead. It was that stirrup! The clip wasn't closed, and in all my zeal and vigor, I managed to jiggle it off! I saw stars for just a second or two, and was really hoping that I wasn't bleeding. I could have looked into one of the floor to ceiling mirrors that are all around the place, but I avoid them like the plague. I pretend to be a vampire with no reflection, because when I have sneeked a peek, I looked really bad. So, I finished my set, did my mountain climbers (appropriate right?), and ran down to start over again. No one screamed or called 911 so I knew I wasn't bleeding. I don't think anyone actually saw what happend , and for that I am glad. I don't want special treatment, or excuses, at all!
We did the circit three times, and then finished up with some killer ab moves. I am very pleased to say that I am getting better at holding my legs up and doing crunches. It is killer but I can feel the differrence. We did planks again, and this time there was no cheating. It was a great work out.
Tomorrow is the 2:30 HCC class. I hobbled my way to the car and ate an apple on the way home. Oddly enough, I didn't feel like taking a nap. I felt pretty good after all......
Kelly
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