Sheba’s Training Blog

So this is a new class at my gym, and is taught by the guy that is my personal trainer. He said it would be tough, but that he would help me modify as needed and that I should definitely attend.

It is hard to document all that we did but I was sore and exhausted beyond anything I have done in more than a year… it looked like everyone else in the class was also pushed to their personal limits too. He didn’t yell at us like a drill Sargent (too much) but I imagine that it might be similar to the type of exercises that are done in boot camp.

We started with 5 laps around the interior of the gym. I was able to do 3 of them at a steady jog, but the last 2 I slowed down to a jog/walk. Then into the exercise classroom and we did sprints back and forth across the room doing a changing variety of crossovers, high knees, butt kicks, backwards and side slide type runs. I am sure these all have official names but I just followed what everyone else was doing, as best as I could. Being January the class was packed and we struggled to not run into each other. (first 15 mins)

Then we did a variety of lunges, squats and leg moves. All at a fast pace. My heart rate was probably too high and I had to take a few mini breaks to sip some water or slow down the moves. We also did some ball throws with weighted balls and then used a big exercise ball to do some other leg things… I can’t even describe. (15 min)

When I take classes it is hard not to try and keep up with the other members, but I seem to always be the fattest, most out of shape person in the class… so I can’t keep up. This is good because I push myself more than if I am just working out in the gym by myself, but bad because I sometimes strain myself and actually get injured. (I really pulled my neck doing the ab work and it hurts a lot today)

So then he set up some centers and paired us off. I was paired with the most incredibly fit looking woman, who I guess to be a few years older than me. If she had an ounce of body fat on her, I don’t know where it was hiding. The centers were ball throws, lat pull downs with a band, arm press things with a band, push ups, arm curls with hand weights, jump rope… I think that’s all of them. We spent a few minutes doing as much as we could at each center and then rotating. We had to do each center twice. I was tripping up pretty bad on the jump rope and thought have I really forgotten how to jump rope? but then I realized the rope I had was just WAY too short. I found a longer one and did much better. I think we did this whole part for another 15 mins. I seriously was loosing my ability to think straight with how hard I was pushing myself.

Last 15 mins was abs and some (tiny) cool-down. Most of the abs were things with our legs in the air and then coming down and holding. We did some regular crunches and also crunches holding a round weight on our chest.

My other tracking program that provides me with calorie estimates doesn’t really have anything that fits so I broke it down like this.

• Calisthenics: vigorous  25min  320cal
• Circuit Training  20min  256cal
• Walk/Jog < 10 min/mile  15min  144cal

So he says he is going to do different stuff every week so it will never get boring. That’s how he is with my training too… we never do the same thing twice. The pounds should melt off if I keep going to this class!

So this is my 3/3 day to the gym for the first week.  exhausted but satisfied

Workout:

• Type: Strength Training
• Date: 01/04/2008
• Time: 11:48:29
• Total Time: 1:00:00.00
• Calories: 720

Filed under: Strength Training