I'm impressed...I went over to SIL's apartment today to train her. I didn't work out with her because I worked out this morning and had plans to test myself tonight...more on that later. SIL worked her butt off. Her legs were super sore from Saturday's workout, and I expected as much, so I had planned on an intense upper body workout for her. I had her do 50 reps of each cable press, pushups, chins, and body rows. She used a pink cable, I used the PPU to assist her pushups, and she was between 60 and 90 degrees for chins and body rows. She did GREAT. She split the reps up into 5 sets of 10, and did it like a circuit. Afterwards she did touchdowns, a few situps, and a little HEY. Her posture is still improving, and she hasn't felt the pinched nerve acting up in the last few days. Tomorrow I think I'll have her walk on the treadmill while I run on the other. Maybe we'll throw in a little leg work, we'll see. I can tell that my challenge will be to keep her from overtraining...
OK, as for my workouts today. This morning we did 3 rounds of 25 burpees, 50 mountain climers, 50 jumping jacks, 25 situps, and 50 squats. I was totally not awake this morning, and so I thought that I was supposed to do 100 jumping jacks and 100 squats. I have no idea how many mountain climbers I did in the first round - I think I at least got that right...they're different than the way we do them at MBG though - we had to plant our both our feet each side of each rep. The squats weren't quite like hindu squats, but close...we had to touch the sides of our heels each time. After I finished, I did a couple extra sets of situps. I finished pretty fast, but I had to keep stopping to pull my pants up...they felt like they were about to fall off. I think its time to buy new pants.
Tonight, I ran through a workout from the MBG website that I did last October to compare my reps. I did one minute each of hang cleans, military presses, renegade rows, push presses, squat cleans, pushups, snatches, front squats, swings, PW crawls, PW curls, mountain climbers, situps, and thinker, with 1 min rest between each. The only thing that I did not get a better number in was situps, and I was off by 3 reps (55 last time, 52 this time). I also did not take any extra breaks this time - the only extra break time was to move my coffee table and put the PW on. I'm happy...but I also wish there was more improvement. I want to be stronger. I think I may really be my worst critic. :)
Be strong!
3 comments:
Hey! Tell that inner critic to back off my friend! Really, K-smash, your workouts and your dedication are awesome! Your SIL's progress is a testament to the good energy and motivation you bring to your training, so don't forget to include that in your evaluation of yourself. I want to add that looking at time and reps to make a general judgment about progress is helpful, but it never tells the whole story so don't lose sight of that. I will bet that with your improved reps on your "test" you also had improved form, which counts far more than numbers in my book. WOW yourself!
Agreed. Its nice to have someone constantly pushing (ie, you!) but a good trainer can also back off and offer praise when its due. You sometimes forget that part of self personal-training!
And you're the best kind of personal trainer to your SIL, too.
Thank you so much!! You're right... It is important to take time to appreciate the improvements and just be positive about where I am rather than always playing drill sergeant with myself. You two are so encouraging! Thank you!!!!!!
Seeing SIL progress, both physically and mentally, is so rewarding. That's always the best part of training someone or with someone...the mental growth and progress. Its so nice to see her confidence and resolve growing.
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