Training week of 12-18-17
12-18: PiYo Core. Continuing to do workouts that don't bug Drew's shoulders. This one is weird but goes by quickly. You do a standing ab series that I mostly feel in my legs, spend a ton of time in plank and side plank, and do a bit on your back. I'm not a huge fan of side plank, but I suppose it's fine.
12-19: Cyr wheel; Drew's shoulder was bugging him, so he didn't do too much. I mostly worked on elbow hang exits, waltzing in a more upright way (for flower picker goals, oddly enough), and sequencing. My arrow has gotten decent enough now that I can pull it off with a pretty bad arabesque, so that's exciting.
12-20: Flying trapeze. Great class, oddly enough, sine I wasn't in the mood. Some good takeoff progress.
12-21: A Little Obsessed: Booty. This is sort of a new program from Autumn, though it's mostly leading to her 80 Day Obsession program. The idea of that one seems to be that you need more than three weeks for real change in terms of muscle growth and fat loss (duh), and it's 80 dif workouts but a lot of them are variations. Also seems to be mostly focused on core and butt, but not solely. Anyway, this is her glute workout in that lead-up program. It is 30min, and you do four blocks. Each block consists of two moves done twice A/B/A/B) for 15 reps. Some you do on each side, so it's sort of 30 reps. Block 1 is marching glute bridge with bands (bridge up and down but lift one leg) and leg raise in all fours with a weight balanced at your bent knee. Block 2 is glute bridge with a band with your feet turned out and both feet down and an all four moves using the band where you have one leg out straight behind you, move it about 45 degrees out from there, and pulse up and down. Block 3 is sort of a deadlift with the band around one foot and held by the opposite hand and a weighted lunge variation. Block 4 is hamstring curls using the band (lying on your side) and weighted squat walk.
12-22: A Little Obsessed Core Cardio for about 15min and then 21 Day Fix Extreme 10min HardCORE. The format for Core Cardio is a high intensity move and medium intensity move alternating in sets of 30sec three times through followed by a core move. I think it's pretty solid, but it was irritating my foot similar to how it was hurting in Finland. After 15min that pain started radiating out, so we stopped and did the 21DFX core routine; it's 1min each move which I always find tough, though no individual move was crazy hard..
12-23: TRX in TX. We made up our own little circuit that was essentially total body. We did it tempo style (count of three on the negative) for 10 reps each move. We would take turns coming up with a TRX move (mostly just classics like rows, curls, and presses) and some sort of floor move (burpees, floor sprints, and the occasional band move for things like upright rows and lateral raises). We timed this and went for 30min. For travel resistance training, the Gravity Trainer bands have been great.
12-24: Three Week Yoga Retreat Week Three Flow with Ted. Man, I just love Ted so much; he is literally the best.
