Back to the Gym

Don't you just cringe when you hear those words? After an awesome summer of doing all of my workouts outside, the gym is the LAST place I want to be, especially since it's still so nice out. However, my coach says it's time for strength training so off I go. Let's be completely honest here, there is no way I would do this if I had to do it alone. I think I did it by myself twice last year and it was sheer torture. Thank goodness Jessi and I go together. The only way to get through something that sucks is to make it fun, and I think we're pretty good at that.

We headed into the room with the camera of course. We brought in "big balls" as Jessi calls them, hand weights, and MRSA balls (aka medicine balls). We are lucky (is that the right word?) that Ben has some awesome strength training workouts on his website. Click here to check it out. You can look through the archives to find the workouts. Although I'm sure if he ever sees this post, he's going to want to pay us to be on the videos demonstrating the exercizes because let me tell you, we are pros! ;) Let me show you...

The first exercise was the chest press on the ball. After clarifying with Jessi that this would not shrink the size of my already modest chest, we proceeded.
As you can see, my form is perfect. We then moved on to the Romanian Dead Lift Row (or something like that). Jessi like this one because it's Romanian, implying that we might just be gymnasts, and it says "dead" which implies that it's hard, therefore making us hard core.

Here's what it looks like from a different angle.

Next, we had to do squats with one leg on the ball. Jessi said Ben's leg was on a bench, but the balls should be just fine. Here she is attempting it.

Nice try, Jess! Here's me stating the obvious: "I'm so awesome at this!"

We ended with the MRSA ball around the world. It looks a little something like this.

We also did some overhead press thing, but I didn't get any pics of that.

Always remember to thank your muscles after a hard work out. They deserve it!

My favorite part of this entire work out was the other lady who was in the room. When we first came in and were cracking up and making fun of eachother, she said, "Are you guys sisters?" We get asked this so often that now we just say yes. A bit later she goes, "Are you twins? I can't tell from here." Jessi goes, "We sure are! How perceptive of you." She said, "I'm a twin too! I could just tell from your interaction that you must be twins!" LOL! Love it!

As suspected, this work out was a blast. Looking forward to many more...not necessarily the soreness that comes with it though! Thank goodness for RecoverEase!