Today's aerobics class used those giant inflated stability balls and dumbbells. I was doing well with the dumbbells until she had us roll down the ball to rest our shoulders and do bench presses. Wobblier still was balancing my lower back and butt on it to do crunches. The height of me feeling like a porpoise came when she had us lay on the ball with our belly button in the middle and do back extensions. It gets better... now we had to roll forward without getting up off the ball and with only our feet and ankles on the ball, hold a plank position for one minute. The truly beautiful part was rolling back into the back extension position. The thoughts going through my mind resembled songs of the humpback whale.
I am convinced that this would have been leagues easier if I had not walked over fresh asphalt tar that morning and through the grass. There was no traction on my shoes whatsoever. So lolling about on a giant bouncy ball unable to get a grip on the floor, I'm sure, will be high quality entertainment for me in retrospect. The good news is that I am certain I can handle heavier dumbbells next time. Because we were going for endurance and I had never done this type of exercise before, I went for the five pounders. Next time I think I may go for seven or nine pounders.
She had us do lots of squats and lunges today as well. I have to be careful with lunges because I am convinced that I have strained or even torn something in my left superior end of my quadriceps. I injured it several weeks ago in my weightlifting class doing exactly that, lunges.
My abdominals are still burning. She has us work the different areas in succession to get a complete workout. I'm grateful for that but, it is a smile through gritting teeth.
I'm feeling the burn even after the exercises are done. That means its working. As much as my body is not used to this and it keeps screaming at me to cut it out, I'm actually having fun among the bouncing tight bodied sorority bitches. Tomorrow we have a core workout with step risers and in the evening I have Viking PT.
I don't remember if I wrote about it but, we missed our ride to Viking PT on Tuesday. Zac's phone was on silent and we didn't hear Rob call. Poo. I messaged Rob and Dave and apologized. If we had any money at all for gas we would have high tailed it up to the PT site quick, fast, and in a hurry.
I'm still nervous about it though. I think I heard them say the group completion thing was going to be Thursday. 50 plus reps of a few exercises but everyone has to finish within a given time even if that means the other group members picking up the extra reps others cannot finish. That's a lot of pressure. I understand the purpose though. We did similar exercises on Parris Island. Team building, cohesion. I'm trying really hard not to psych myself out about this but I can't help but predict that I will be the weakest link.
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