It's only Wednesday, feels like it's been a long week already. Kickboxing Monday and strength training yesterday... both times were with Jillian. I don't know if it's just her or if someone went to a clinic and decided to add in some new tortures, but there have been some new evils added in. Yesterday we did the three-position pushups drill deal where you have position 1 is arms straight, position 2 is midway and position 3 is the lowest point... and she calls out positions for you to move to and hold it there. This was after doing like 20 pushups anyway, it was pretty brutal... I couldn't do it, my arms gave out. Then later we were holding a straight-arm plank and she had us just shift to an oblique straight-arm plank, then shift to a reverse plank, then oblique the other side, then back to straight arm planks. That was in one way cool, but also pretty tough... which is good. I just have weak points in my shoulders that don't support my massive weight when shifting around like that yet. :-( Kind of like how the angle of dips is a really weak area for me.
Yesterday's evil was jump squats after doing drop sets of squats. Jump squats started from holding a squat, then jump, then down and hold the squat... repeat. I don't know why that burns so exceptionally much, I was about to fall down.
Jill was telling people to band up and I caught her glaring at me... or at least in my direction... on squats. I hate that because my legs are strong so I can squat a lot but when I've got two purples and a blue band that I have to hold to do the squats, it's not my thighs that burn out, my shoulders, elbows and hands/wrists start to hurt like hell from holding the bands up. Actually, I think I injured my right thumb, it's been hurting since last night. I wish we had squat racks with free weights for that exercise... or maybe just a bar I could hook the bands onto... maybe I'll think about doing that with the bars we have. I'll probably break them. :-(
Sarah felt no desire to go to strength training yesterday, we're going to 5:30 today (after Emma gets home so she can watch the boys). I need to be careful doing backfists kickboxing because I think I started tweaking/injuring my left ankle pivoting on it. It was sore last week on Friday Funday, too, but that wasn't from pivoting, it was just pushing off doing jabs and whatnot. Just to cover the rest of my injuries, my right knee is fine, I've been really careful to keep my form good when doing knees/rounds with it... and my turf toe (left big toe) is pretty good, I can do pushups without it hurting too much. Lunges still suck on it... but it's getting better.
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