And of course it's going to be an insane week so I figured I need my extra workout beforehand (although I'm sure I will need it even more after I get back)
But I'm glad we trained today, it was a super fun session and I got to do a lot of cool things I've never done before
I got there right on time but Jason was actually running late so I had to kill about 20 minutes jogging on the treadmill to warmup. Nothing crazy, I didn't want to exhaust myself before we even got started. There was a show on about Lundqvist doing stuff and it had subtitles so that kept my mind of the running part.
Finally Jason was ready so he beckoned me away from the treadmill and had me roll out my back for a bit since it's still really tight from earlier this week
Then we got started with the real stuff. Free weight room today, we had to wait for the squat rack to open up, so I had to do leg presses on this contraption where you are sitting almost upside down, and then push the weights above you. The problem was, when I got into the contraption, my feet couldn't even reach the platform! Hilarity ensued. By the time he adjusted everything, the squats were open, so I only had to do one set and a quick set of body weight squats. Then onto the real squats
We worked our way up to a set of 5 reps with 155lbs by the end. Huzzah! Making my way back to 225!
Then enough with the big weights, we went over to the TRX for some new stuff. I did a series of reverse lunge to pistol squats, one set standing up between each, on set staying low and bringing the leg straight through to the front, and the last set staying low but with a straight leg and rotating it around to the front. And totally looking badass while doing so. Totally
Then we went up front and played around with a medicine ball, where I had to throw it up high to where the wall meets the ceiling and try to catch it on its way down. The first few throws are not so bad, but that exercise gets exponentially harder, very quickly
Then with 15lb Dumbbells I did walking lunge with press. That one also is fine at first but by the last lunge my shoulders are screaming to be ripped out of my sockets if only to get some relief.
Then I did a super fun thing. Long jumps across the floor. There are these two black lines that frame the training area floor, I don't even know how wide, but it took about 4 and a half jumps to get to each side. So I was trying to clear the lines in 4 jumps and kept coming a tiny half hop short. Then finally on my second to last pass, I hurled myself across the floor and cleared the lines on my 4th jump!! It was awesome! I felt like I just won the Olympics, hahaha! Of course the very last jump I just barely fell short, my toes cleared the line but not the triumphant pass like the previous one
By that point my body had had enough. Fortunately the only thing I had left to do was V-ups and reverse plank. Then glorious stretching, and now to go home to start packing for my VAYCAY!!! Booyah
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