If you hate balls like i do....

Besides hand wraps, and what ever you choose for cardio, to the left is all you need for today.
Its a little late, long day, i had training, then class right afterwards. My classes are like 4 hours each, but the teacher let us out early. Going off on a tangent here, sorry..... Lets sweat!

Today's workout consisted of some combination punches and kicks, squats, and the ball.....one of my arch enemies.....the exercise ball. I complained to my trainer about my thighs and back being sore, so he said he would go easy today. He lied! Well at LEAST in my eyes. Never trust a trainer, they are PROGRAMED to see you suffer and burn! LoL. Don't get me wrong, I think everyone who has a trainer has a love hate relationship. You love the fact they don't let you quit, and put up with my complaints and whines, but you HATE when your in the middle of a work out, and your in pain, they ask you how are you doing, you say in pain, they are like GREAT! 20 more. :-(

I have an ipod mix that is exactly 1 1/5 hours long. I think the ipod is heaven sent music lets your work out go by faster, and the ipod lets you put what you KNOW is going to keep you moving, and you can change up the music and keep it fresh. One of the first times I came to train all ready in hand wraps (I will go into more info on that at a later time), so i plug in my ipod, and got straight to the warm ups.

I just hate the medicine ball. My trainer has two. A regular and then some made up one that he filled with sand and duck taped! Both are heavy, but the later is the heaviest. I feel my arms are one of my weaker extremities so I don't look forward to anything including them in my program. I tried to whine, to blame it on genetics, but I can never get out of them.

First, there was walking up and down the length of the room. Actually lunges. While holding the medicine ball with your arms up but the hands holding the medicine ball is behind you. With the lunges, not only do you have to keep your back straight and good form, you are supposed to drop the knee down to practically touching the floor, so its a DEEEPPPP lunge. When you feel like you may fall out because your legs are weak, do 10 more! lol :-)

Then stationary and keeping the ball behind your head and the elbows are not spread out but held closely to the face, pump the ball up and down. After doing these (maybe 50-100; i will try to get some counts in later) then you bring your arms to the front and do the same, bring the ball to the face and then down to the thighs.

Then there is a sort of fold exercise. Standing straight up with arms up and hands still holding the ball- lock your arms straight and bring the ball down, while lifting one leg up. As you get closer, bend your back so that you are touching your legs with the ball. Imagine like you are folding yourself in half.

On to squats while holding the ball in front of you. The pressure should be on the heals of the feet. Like you are sitting back in a chair, come to a 90 degree angle and the ball should be held out in front of you, then back up.

Drop down and do push ups. I normally do the regular push ups, but go ahead and do the girly push ups if just starting out. Then push ups with the ball. One hand on the ground, one hand on the ball, push up, and roll the ball to the next hand and repeat.

I did some push kick, round house kick (swivel), and knees. I did about 5 sets. With the kicks, knees, and punches: generally a set is as i explained earlier. 1 kick, 2 kicks, 3 kicks, 4 kicks, 5 kicks, 4 kicks, 3 kicks, 2 kicks, 1 kick is considered ONE COUNT. Today I did maybe 5 or more counts each of the kicks and the knees. Along with more knees as i walk across the room. (some leg break, huh?)

I also did a few sets of each of the punches: the jab, hook, elbows, hooks.

I did some combinations. With the combination you want to remember to stay "t-ed off' which means feet should distance apart but also one slightly in front of the other- so you are standing at an angle and remember to twist on the off opposite foot than you are punching with.

Some of the combinations covered today included:

Jab with one hand and hook with the other. Try to get a rhythm going. (example jab with the right, hook with the left, repeat)

Jab with upper cut

Jab with the left, hook with the right, upper cut with the left elbow with the right.

Jab with kick

Jab with roundhouse.

Remember posture, form, twist the waist, stop for some water - but not too many breaks, you want to keep a constant pace going, and you don't want your stomach cramping up.

After about an hour of these, I did the stationary bike for about 25 minutes. I keep a pretty consistent speed 22-40 mph. The bike I use is the one that the handles also move. I keep hydrated off and on.

Then its off to the shower, I need it right about now. Today was raining, so the day seemed to drag. Up at 5am, work out at 6am, cardio at 7am, shower and class at 8am until 12 noon. took like a 30 min nap when I finally made it home.

Hasta Manana!