Weekly Workout Train 3/20/10

Another week down and those 17 bazillion pounds seem to like the new residence they have taken up on my body. I swear, I’m about five seconds from inventing a home liposuction that isn’t scary. At any rate, here’s what this week’s workouts looked like.


Monday saw a return to Monkey Bar with sets and reps that included one of my least favorite exercises. I’m 100000 percent convinced that burpees were created by the devil or one of his high up minions. They suck. I’m sure we did some other things like the jump rope, sit ups, powerwheel and what not, but the burpees are what are sticking in my mind as hell. Oh well, the price right?

Tuesday was a double day with Monkey Bar and then Krav. This time around Monkey Bar had us trying to achieve different levels (alignment, strength 2, strength 3 and power) of five different exercises: push ups, box hops, sit ups with weights, jump rope, power wheel roll outs and bear crawls. I was pretty happy to hit power level for the jump rope (1000 revolutions), bear crawls (6 lengths) and weighted sit ups (100). As I do girly push ups the fact I did 50 wasn’t another power level but it is something to work on. The power level for powerwheels was 100 and we did 75 so almost. Box hops are a close second to burpees in my world so 50 was enough of those and that was strength level 3 so there;) Let’s say that doing defensive front kicks forever after this during Krav wasn’t the most fun experience ever. And my 360 defenses with counters look like I’m hitting midgets or having a seizure. There’s always room for improvement right?

Wednesday is normally a day off for me (I try to schedule my meetings to coincide with this). Instead of taking it easy, I thought a 3.5 mile walk would be a good idea. Well, the company of my dear friend LO was definitely a bonus as was the sunny weather, but my legs were in a state of rebellion about .75 miles in. And while it may appear that I live in a nice, flat area, there were moments when it felt like I was off-roading. The jury is out as to whether or not Wednesdays will be added to my schedule.

Thursday normally is another double but since V was sick I decided to only do Monkey Bar. To add a twist, it was Animal Thursday. What is that you ask? Well, all the exercises had an animal name: bear crawls, lizard lunges, crab walk, frog hops, inch worm and something else I’m forgetting. That’s not to ignore the ab work but let’s be honest, I’m past the point of thinking I’ll ever have flat abs again. R&S did not disappoint and an hour later I was feeling very sweaty and tired.

While Friday is almost never a workout day, I was feeling like a lard ass while working from home. Not that it should really count as a workout, but I did make myself do 50 push-ups (still girly on my knees) and 100 reps of abs. There.

Saturday’s masochism continued with level 2 and level 1 of Krav. While my 360 defenses with counters still stink, at least I do pretty well with choke with a pull. Not that it is used very much and not that I ever want to have to use it, but at least I’ve got the theory. Level 1 was all elbows and for once I came out with all the skin I went in with and no new bandaids. Yay!

Here’s to hoping I see some changes soon.