Jan 29, 2013 14:53
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all successful workouts must involve two main ingredients: working out and discussing forbidden things: pizza, potatoes and alcohol. These may seem counterproductively juxtaposed but for us, they work.
Today was strength focus … but Chris never limits himself to just the “workout du jour.” Oh no, he inserts other gems, such as jumping jacks and planks and that sort of stuff, cleverly disguising them as strength, but we all know they’re cardio and core, respectively. We are not fooled by this behavior.
Sweet Potato got her body fat measured today, while the rest of us did jumping jacks and cross countries. Then it was, collect some heavy weights, ladies, because we’re heading into strength training territory.
Squats with weights at shoulder height. Dead lifts with weights. Drop one weight, put the other over your head, calf raises. Drop the weight, prison squats (hands behind your heads). Pick up one weight, alternating side lunges with weight held goblet style (done for the Bear’s benefit on the ski slopes). One hand presses, then switch to the other side. Repeat whole circuit.
Next circuit, pick up weights, squats. Get balls, chest presses with back on the ball. Stand up, bent over rows, then side lunges again with weights. Drop the weights, lateral hops. Front planks on the balls. Pick up weights, presses. Repeat whole circuit.
While that doesn’t look like much on paper, every exercise was timed, and they all felt long to me. Especially when my arms were sort of falling off … I can't claim bears don't do strength training, since one of the common refrains is "strength of a bear."
Conversation during this time was remarkably subdued, until I reminded Chris that the song he was singing last week, Taylor Swift’s “I knew you were trouble when you walked in” (or at least that’s the chorus) was still in my head because I had heard it 20 times on my way to Lancaster on Sunday. He was surprised that I hadn’t heard the other one (whose name now escapes me … something about a body part …). Jayne blurted out rather loudly, “What song? The Dong Song?”, not realizing the effect such a well placed shout might have in a crowded gym. Well, that brought gales of laughter because who would name a song the Dong Song? Let’s get real. Chris fell over laughing. I would have but I had weights over my head and didn’t want to self-perform a frontal lobotomy … with two 10 pound weights … I think that might hurt.
You know, you can’t beat this class for sheer entertainment.
Baby Bear
Dolores, we missed you.
strength training focus