Fall Camp

So this is pretty much the craziest week of my life!!!  Not only is it our first full week of classes, it is fall camp for track and recruitment for SAO!!  So much going on!  The first two days of fall camp have gone well.  Yesterday we spent 2 hours going through our warm up which ususally takes barely 30 mins!!  It was painfully slow!!  Its great to be back with the team!  The freshman are really great!  After our ridiculous warm up we did some med ball work.  Today I was up bright and early for 6 am practice because I had volunteering this afternoon during practice.  Getting up that early was tough, but since it was me and the throwers I got to do the warm up at real speed :)  Then I spent some time on acceleration drills.  Finished up the morning with abs and a nice set of push ups!  While getting up was terrible, it was really nice to have my workout all done before my day even began.

Overall, this week has been good.  After a very lazy weekend getting back into the swing of things is hard.  But life seems to be going pretty well.  Classes are good.  Working at the gym today was nuts!  Some how they were a teacher short so I ended up teaching a class all by myself.  They are really nice, it is def different from aerials, more team, less classes, but it went really well.  My voice is now completely gone though! Looking forward to the rest of the week!

Another day at the gym

Today I had a haircut about 2 hours after i was done with work, so i chose to stay and work out.  The team girls were there so I headed down to the mini gym to be out of the way.  I started with some jump roping to warm up.  Then did 3 sets of 15 step ups on each legs.  Next was 3 handstand holds, 30, 45 and 60 secs.  Followed by 3 sets of 2 min abs.  Then for some more legs i did 3 sets of 1 min wall sits, and 3 sets of 10 box jumps.  For some more arms I did 3 sets of 20 push ups.  To round out the abs I did 3 sets of 10 windshield wipers up against the wall.  Happy with my haircut.  Overall it was a nice day, little more motivated to get working out again.  We will see how I feel in the morning, may just try to go to the y  after work.

Gymnastics workout???

So today, after a moderately painful trip to the dentist, i went to work about 45 mins early and decided to workout a little before I had to start teaching.  I did a quick circuit of stuff that I remembered doing so long ago...  It ended up being a full body workout which was a nice way to wake up all my muscles and hopefully get them going again.  I started with chin up pullovers, much harder than I remembered,  did 10 on the first set, 5 on the second.  Then I did 10 dips (both sets).  Next was leg lifts, both sets of 10, much harder than I remember when done on the wall!!  Then I did upside down rope climbs,  i was quite pleased with how well these actually went!  after wards was an ab exercise I don't remember the name of, I laid on the floor, held the support of one of the bars, and tried to lift my body up from my shoulders as straight as possible, i think both sets were of 10.  Then I headed over to the beam where I did a bunch of calf raises, and 1 set of 10, 1 set of 8 single leg squats, i guess u would call them.  Surprisingly, my legs were stronger than I remember!!  These felt really good on my right knee, some of the strength it still needs to recover!  Finished out the circuit with sets of 5 handstand push ups!  Overall, it was a nice day.  Great way to kill time before taking the kids to the bowling alley!  Hopefully, I can get myself back on a more regular workout routine soon, but honestly since november I have not taken more than a week off, so I think my body is enjoying a little time to recharge.

Quick Lift/ Getting ready to go!

After work yesterday I spent the afternoon packing and getting ready to leave.  Then headed down stairs to do a quick lift.
5x5 Incline bench (95lbs) much harder than I thought it would be!
4x8 decline abs with 25lbs
3x8 split jumps each leg, 10 lbs weight, with 3x8 leg raises on the decline
3x5 side/back lung series with 3x5 shoulder series and 3x8 squat curls
was supposed to do wide grip pull ups but couldn't use the bar and i did not feel like dealing with slipping off the bar so instead I did 2 x8 handstand push ups.

Today  I worked for 5 hours so now im wiped after workin with kids all day, so made the decision to relax and finish packing rather than try to fit in a workout.  Excited and anxious to get going tomorrow!

Distance Intervals?

So today I made an attempt at some kind of distance interval workout.  Headed out early this morning in order to avoid the majority of the heat!  Did about a half mile warm up.  Then did repeats of loop that is some where around 1000 m I think.  Did this three times and hit them all at just over 4:30.  By the third one i was exhausted and it was humid.  Knew I had a long run home so I called it a day.  Half mile cool down.  Then 2 min abs to finish up the day.  Spent the rest of the day shopping with mom to get ready for my trip, then spent 2 hours with kids at Aerial's, had to coach strength.  Believe me the kids were thrilled!!  Overall a good day!  Can't believe this week is half over!

Busy day!

For like the first time this summer, I can say that today was a pretty busy day!  Got up this morning to be at Aerial's to work camp from 8-12.  Kids were great had a lot of fun!  Then came home for a little while and got my lift in before heading back to Aerial's to cover a 3 yr old class.  They were much more work, but they were all really sweet kids, 7 3 yr olds at a time is just a little much!  But as for the lift here's how it went:

3x8 BB rows (1st at 65, 2nd and 3rd at 75 lbs) with decline with 25 lb weight
3x5 hang cleans (1st at 75, 2nd at 85, 3rd at 90) with 3x8 russian twists with 25 lb weight on decline
3x8 shoulder series and 3x8 curl to press with 8 lbs weight
3 x 8 NG pull ups with 3x8 leg lifts

Overall it was a great lift, I was very sore after yesterday so it was nice to give my legs a chance to recover.

Sub 7!

After two days of workouts that consisted of cleaning for hours at the gym (which is a moderate workout, I was a little sore!!!)  I finally got back out to do a real workout today.  After a couple of hours working with great kids I headed outside.  Attempted to protected the blistered area on the back of my foot with a band-aid but it was off by the end of my warm up.  I am pretty sure that the problem on monday was only caused by my shoes not being tied right, since that was the first time I wore them, because all they did today was pull off the skin from the blister, no new ones formed!!  This is very exciting because I love those shoes and would be upset if I could not use them!  So after a half mile warm up I ran a mile through the neighborhood.  It was the fastest mile of mile life, coming in in just under 7 mins.  Because I measured the distance by driving it, it is not completely perfect, but it was as close as I could get to a mile.  Then I came inside for a little body weight lift.

3x8 bench dips with my feet up
3x8 split jumps on each side
3x25 side crunches on each side
3x8 handstand push-ups
3x8 single leg calf raises on a  ledge on each side
3x20 v-seats
3x15 push-ups
3x8 box jumps
3x10 windshield wipes

Overall it was a good workout, very pleased with where i am but hoping to make a lot of improvement throughout the summer, so here we go!

Back on the run!!

After a nice week off I decided that I needed to get out of the house and move a little bit.  Especially since my high school team is hosting an all-comers meet the day after memorial day, where I will compete in something, looks like it may be as part of a 4x8 at the moment.  But since that is only a week away and im putting in some hours at work this week I wanted to get a run in today.  The plan was to run a 2.5/3 mile loop.  unfortunately in order to leave my house I have to run up a pretty steep nearly 300 meter hill, which does not all for easing into runs.  But once I got going I was feeling really good.  Around the 2 mile mark the same breathing issue I had one my last run with Michael hit me again, but since I was by myself I had less motivation to push through it, so I only got through just over 2 miles.  Did discover a pattern in the two episodes though.  Both times I had not prepared to run during the day.  I had not eaten much and was very underhydrated.  Also, both times I had done some level of activity for the few hours before I attempted the run, last time walking the mall, this morning cleaning the pit.  So I can blame myself and make sure I don't let it happen again!  Also tried my hand at the bench challenge the activedge team used as part of their race last weekend.  As many reps of bench as possible with half your body weight.  So I weighed myself and set it up. But once again was stupid and did not warm up or anything.  Only did 40 reps not quite the 50 I wanted :)  but thats ok, I have not lifted in about a month, Ill hit it before the summer is out, maybe even before i leave for cali!