Yesterday sucked, I felt so blah all day. I mean, it was nice to sleep 'in' till 7:30, was nice to not have to be going anywhere and just hanging out at home with the kids. Actually now that I think about it, I felt more energetic than I had pre-Farrell's, I just think that by the end of the day I felt sore from not working out... if that makes any sense. I did a lot of sitting and reading and playing with the boys. Beautiful weather... I guess I mowed the lawn, so that wasn't just sitting around. Maybe I didn't feel blah all day, just the end of the day... and that might just have come from dreading having to leave town for work. I don't like that, I miss my family.
Anyway, I was looking forward to the workout this morning and it was good. Justin had us do three new things, hook punches, low side kicks and pyramids. It was interesting learning the technique for for hooks, to not swing with the shoulder... gets a good tug in the abs. And pyramids... it's funny because Sarah's mentioned them many times before and it never really sank in... but since we were doing roundhouses and lunges... and I suck at lunches... it was pretty bad. By the time we were working down on the left side, I was doing maybe two lunges... instead of the 6-5-4-3-2-1.
(for those who don't know... pyramids work like this: you do one roundhouse and one lunge... then you do two roundhouses and two lunges... you do that up until you do 6 of each, then you work your way 'down' on the left side from 6 to 1.)
Low kicks were fun, I enjoyed the jab-cross-low kick combos. I kind of knocked the bag nearly into my workout partner on one of them, though... a FIT lady who I probably outweigh by 180 pounds. She was a good partner, though.
Oh, another different thing we did was a jab-roundhouse combo where you have to shift your feet between. My footwork is awful, I'm about as agile as a mammoth.
When we did jab burnouts, I kicked it up a notch at the end... felt good, I suppose I should be doing that the whole time, though. Of course, I go from that right into a plank... with arms like rubber. Planking went better than last week, though, both the regular planks and the side planks.
Randy sold me a red figure-8 band to use in workouts while I'm traveling this week and next week, so that's cool. I'll be back for the 5:30 class on Friday. I really hate that this travel is happening while I'm working the program because I can't spend extra time at home this morning or Friday afternoon to make up for lost family time during the week, I won't be home until 7 Friday night... I miss them already.
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