Boot Camp 4

So tonight I think we all lost our minds, because we ended up arriving at the gym 45 minutes before the class started.  The gym owner was extremely confused, and looked a little irritated by it was well, but we later found out that he was just tired with a sore back.  Oh well.  We giggled and started our stretch.

The class started how all boot camp classes start with.  The ugly dynamic jumping warm up.  We also incorporated this new warm up move called an inch worm.  You start in a plank position, then you walk your hands in towards you until your bent over.  Instead of standing all the way up, you walk your arms all the way back out and do it over again.  No one in particular pissed me off, so I have nothing to rant about.  Sorry to disappoint. Standard circuit with a 40/20 ratio.  Tonight it was 4 rounds of 7 stations though.  Tonight there were few enough people to do one person per station, which made me sad because then I couldn't giggle with Kitty, but oh well.  At least she's close enough to give the eye to if something strange is happening.

• First station was called a Val Slide Back Lunge.  You put your back leg on this flat plastic thing that is slippery when on carpet, and you do a backward lunge.  This thing is great for your core, if your core is strong enough to keep you from falling over or pulling something.  Which...mine isn't.  I most certainly pulled my right hamstring the very first round.

• Second station was a TRX row.  

• Third station was a squat with a one armed shoulder press.  He offered kettle bells or dumb bells for this one.  I tried it with the kettle bell, but it hurt my hand.  It wasn't the weight, it was the way I had to hold the stupid thing.  So I switched to the dumb bell later. 

• Fourth station was jumping jacks.  Yay! Jumping! *vomits*

• Fifth station was either a full push up or a scapula push up.  A scapular push up is, in my opinion, not a push up at all.  You start in a plank position and keeping your arms straight, you move your body up and down within your shoulders.  Now for some reason, the scap push up made it really hard to breath for me, so I did a modified push up.  Darren told me that I either had to do a full push up or a scap push up and I explained that my chest was being squished during the scap push ups, and I sure as hell can't do a regular push up, so he told me to just hold a plank.  I don't see what was wrong with doing the modified push up.  I was still working my core.  Feh, whatever. 

• Sixth station was called Slam Ball.  You picked up a 10 pound weighted ball up over your head and slammed it down on the ground as hard as you can.  

• The seventh and final station was wood chops, but they weren't up to down wood chops like I'm used it.  Using one of those fancy universal weight machines we had to wood chop side to side.  I guess it was supposed to work your abs more. 

We ended with blast offs?  I think that's what it was called.  We had to hold a kettle bell and do two sets of 50 squats.  Darren gave Kitty a 10 (I think) pound kettle bell and told me that I had to use a 15 pounder!   I called him a meanie.

I felt off today and I think it's because I haven't given my muscles time to really mend.  When you give your self a longer period of time to heal, you generally come back stronger and able to work with more weight.  So next week I plan on not doing any strength training so that I can give my muscles optimum time to heal.  That also means that next week won't be our last boot camp since we won't be attending.  I still plan on doing Zumba because it's more cardio than anything, but I have to listen to my body and it's telling me that it's not happy with me right now.  But I plan on coming back the next week fully rested, fully healed, and stronger than before!