Weekly Workout Train 4/3/2010

I’m beginning to think that starting my workout week with a killer Monkey Bar class may end up being the death of me. Or maybe that’s just because I could barely stand up straight to take the class. Either way, it was not an easy go. The motivation of homemade cookies at the end is pretty much what got me through. Anyway, it was a series of 15 exercises (do as many reps as possible) for a minute each with one break. After the first round of 15 and a short break, it was back through the cycle but backwards. Let’s see if I can remember them all (perhaps not in order):
• Push ups
• Downdog pushups
• Hindu pushups
• Diamond pushups
• Crunches
• Russian twists
• Bicycle crunches
• Split squats
• Sumo squats
• Squats with feet together, hands on head
• Toe raises
• Push kicks
• Toe jumps
• Burpees
• Sprawls
Yep, it was hard getting off the couch after that one.

Oy. That’s a pretty good word to describe Tuesday’s Monkey Bar. It was as many sets as possible of the following after our baseline:
5 Around the world (in pushup position, lift one hand, other hand, that foot, other foot for one rep)
10 Snowboarders
15 Downdog pushups
20 Bicycles
25 Lunges (left/right was one)
50 Sit ups
100 Jump rope revolutions

I finished five sets in the time allotted. That’s 25 around the worlds, 50 snowboarders, 75 Hindu pushups, 100 bicycles, 125 lunges, 250 sit ups and 500 jump rope revolutions. Sometimes I hate my Type A personality to do the math on these things. After that I decided to be a slacker and not do Krav. Could also have something to do with the fact that the three nights prior I had about 3 hours of sleep each night.

Thursday I went back to the theory that the 16 bazillion pounds of fat weren’t going to magically disappear so I decided to do both classes. Krav was a whole lotta groundwork this week which is not my favorite. Hell, I couldn’t get up right for months. Add to this the fact that you have to mount a partner and get bucked off and well, you can see where this is going. It really does make your abs engage though. There’s a floor technique affectionately called “shrimping” that I especially struggled with. At one point my instructor casually asked if I was trying to exfoliate for free on his floor as I was scraping by and not doing it properly. Whoopsie. Guess that move needs some work. The Monkey Bar workout was a circuit of 30 minutes of the following at a 40 second on/20 second off interval:
• Ladder (jumping in and out of the boxes)
• Russian Twists with weight
• Curls
• Powerwheel roll-outs
• Chin ups
• Box hops
• Some other arm exercise I can’t remember.

Friday saw me return to running. It was a beautiful day out and at least that made up for the not so stellar run. I went further the first time than I did before, but overall my time was pretty off. I know, it was my second run of the year so I should give myself a break, but I wanted to burn more than 356 calories.

And as it was the holiday, that was all for me:)