Another Thursday, another workout. Pretty tired tonight after this one, and I'm not sure why. Don't get me wrong, Karissa put me through my paces, but I felt energized after today. It really hit me once I got home. Oh well.
I had mentioned that I was going to try for a cardio day yesterday, but after Tuesday, my hamstring tightened so much that I didn't want to push it on anything. It was still tight today, so we worked on stretching it out so I could complete my workout. We did some warm-up exercises to begin with a step lunge where I had to try to touch my same-side arm to the inside of my ankle. Then onto some shoulder warm-ups then onto squats while facing a wall and only being a couple of inches off the wall. Repeat that 3 times, then move onto the next exercise.
After that warm-up we had to work on the hamstring so we rolled it out and stretched it to loosen it up. Once that felt better we moved onto squats where we upped the weight after each set. We paired the squats with knee roll-ups but instead of using the ball we used the straps on the TRX. Much harder - both the exercise and getting my feet into the handles. Repeat 4 times.
After that we moved onto my superset for the day which were single-leg leg presses, scorpions (I'll explain in a bit), and what we call bosu belly floundering. Let me explain that too.
The scorpion exercise is one where you get into a plank position with your hands on a bench and one leg on the stability ball. From this position you twist your other leg under and over. Essentially a twisting motion while trying to keep your balance on the stability ball. Not sure why they call it a scorpion. I think it may be because your trainer is doubled over laughing which may represent a scorpion. Or they named it that to make it sound cool as opposed to what you actually have to do. It is extremely difficult is all I know.
The bosu belly floundering is the name for this strange movement when I had to balance on the bosu ball on my stomach then touch my heels with the same-side hand. You can imagine what I looked like on that one. I was floundering all over the place trying to keep my balance and twist around to touch my heels. I am so glad we aren't recording my sessions for as a teaching aid. It would hit YouTube a bit too fast for my liking.
Well, let's see if I can get to my cardio work tomorrow. Hopefully see you then.
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