Weekly Workout Train 5/1/10

Oh my goodness. Monday’s Monkey Bar was one for the books, or maybe that was just because I hadn’t done anything in so long. It’s kind of a blur, but let’s see if I can remember it:
Squats with arm raises
Skaters
Log jumps
Punches
Umpas
Burpees

Sounds simple so far right? Well we started with 30 seconds each exercise, 30 seconds rest. Then 40 seconds each exercise, 20 seconds rest. Then 50 seconds each exercise, 10 seconds rest. Then back through. Yeah, that’s a lot. To say that sweat was pouring down is probably an understatement but I’m at a loss for how to better describe the situation.

Tuesday was an interesting day. For Monkey Bar, we only did the baseline for sit ups and push ups (not my best day) then we did a jump rope workout. Let’s say jumping rope is not my favorite thing to do. We partnered up and it was two minutes on, two minutes off while you timed your partner. These were sprints and we had to do a total of 10 reps each. Then we cooled down with yoga. I’m telling you, jump rope is no joke and that was a hard one.

Level 2 that night saw me do warm up which came to be a bad idea. We had to be in a circle and everyone had to call out an exercise. There were a lot of people there that night. Then we did punch combinations and uppercuts. The thing is, you don’t just get an arm workout while you’re punching, but while you hold the focus mitts for your partner. My arms were toast by the end.

I wanted to run Wednesday but my knee was out of whack from the jump rope. Not wanting to completely wimp out, I did 30 minutes of pilates (mostly abs, buns and thighs). I’m not sure where the ab workout from this week came in, but they were burning about halfway through.

Thursday I got back in the groove of doing both level 2 and Monkey Bar. Level 2 was a little tough since we were doing a bunch of kicks and that hurt the knee a bit. Then we went in to uppercuts and combinations which means an arm workout when you are punching and when holding the focus mitts for others. To end there was a free for all with your partner (or in my case partners since we were a group of three) where your job as attacker was to punch the bag and their job was to keep you from doing so. Let’s just say there were moments I wanted to hit both of them;)

Monkey Bar was another pyramid that went like this:
Upright Rows with a Kettlebell
Snowboarders
Log jumps (just side to side, not over anything)
Standing Russian Twists with a Kettlebell
Umpas
Push ups (Burpees for others but since my knee isn’t so hot, I did these instead)

It was a pyramid like before with the sets being 30/30, 40/20, 50/10, 40/20, 30/30. Now, I have no arm strength what so ever so using a 18 lb. kettlebell is kind of outside my range of ability, or so I thought. I did all the sets with one. I’m not so sure how long my arms will last today, but that isn’t the point. It was intense, with a jump rope warm up and yoga cool down.

That was it for the workouts. Friday was a good dinner with good friends and Saturday I’m a good bridesmaid and trying on dresses. At least my arms should look good in them right?