Wow! Brian left us something to remember him by, when he designed today's workout. He created a routine that included the shoulders, legs, abs, and cardio. My shoulders were still cryin' from Tues, and my abs, hips, and legs were moaning from Wed. My legs felt like they had worked out every day this week with 50 lb. weights. I was really tired. It took all my discipline to come in today, and I fell asleep twice on the snooze button.
But as always, unless I have no way to get to camp, I am compelled to come and fulfill my promise to myself, and maintain accountability to Adventure. I can't stand it when I miss my boot camp.
Now today's workout was even deeper. Brian decided to floor it! Naturally Brian's partner in crime, the Velvet Hammer, was put in charge to decimate our enemy Mr. Fats. This was gonna be an outright war, folks! Something about her told me she was out for blood.
I knew I was in trouble as soon as I walked through the door. Her eyes were shiny and gleaming; she looked like she was a cat that just finished gulping a mouse for dinner when she caught my glance. :)
She appeared to be such a sweet little thing! Yet I saw something deep in her eyes that warned me that this human/ creature was craving blood as her eyes danced with mischief! Yikes! What the heck have I got myself in to??
I had to rub my eyes several times as I imagined fangs growing from the sides of her mouth as she smiled and tossed her head back, laughing. Huh?! In fact, I think I saw a vampire peering at me from behind those bright black eyes!
It was! It was! It was a vampire I saw hiding under her golden blonde hair and fair skin. I swear!
At that moment, I decided I better get a move on before she sank her fangs in me and got a taste for my blood! ;) As far as I could tell, the Velvet Hammer was going to suck a little blood from all of us before it was all over.
We started off on the ladder as a warm-up and then did circuits that included lots of intense work, including some deadlifts and cardio.
Some of the things we did for our shoulders included the shoulder push up, reverse lunges with shoulder raises, and doing the exercise bands to work the trapeze muscles in the shoulders.
The shoulder push up is always a goodie, and most of the time you're gonna hear a lot of huffing and puffing, groaning and mumbling cause they are so tough! Our routine was strenuous, and highly effective.
But you know what, warriors? Actually I am thrilled. I have begun to notice in the mirror that my deltoids are beginning to rock! Ever so slightly, they are shaping into some really nice mounded curves. My transformation is beginning to take form. Wow-wee!
For the abs, there was no reprieve! We did spider planks, penguins, russian twists, chops, ab crossovers, and a pose typically used in yoga. We also had the opportunity to choose our ab exercises at least a few times. I usually like to do the bicycle crunches best, or some form of the plank.
This had tremendous variety, and I felt all my muscles working to failure. Think about how svelte we are gonna get! Look at that repertoire! What a premier ab routine!
This is another area in which I am beginning to see some changes. I still have a layer of padding to burn off, but my upper abs are getting toner, and I notice this when I get dressed in the morning. Whoo-hoo! When I take off another 15 lbs, I am gonna have some glam-abs and feel like a rockstar!
Then of course, there was a generous amount of cardio that required us to work our legs. And work we did! This was when I really believed our vampire was circulating the floor for blood! We did everything from wall taps, to squat jumps, knee highs, and wall runs. We did lunges that nearly killed me. I focused on every muscle group, making each rep count. The best in the batch was the squat sits. I even held a weight to make it that much better, and it was lethal!
As a last encore, the Velvet Hammer treated us to a "quad burnout". You know she loves those treats!! Yep, and this was serious, folks. We did each of the exercises in this group on one leg. Awesome for balance, but extraordinary for taxing the muscles that had to stabilize our weight.
Both my quads and glutes were blowing up after our sergeant buried us with that one. But I would give a million dollars for a set of quads like the Velvet Hammer! ;)
This workout had me psyched. The Velvet Hammer didn't disappoint. It was an extraordinary workout, and the combination cardio and leg sets were the bomb! They set my muscles on fire!
Finally near the end of our camp, I shook myself out of my vivid daydream, rubbed my eyes again, and realized that I was physically intact. I had not transformed in a walking zombie. No blood could be found at the camp. Wow! Everyone else appeared normal too.
As much as I anticipated the Hammer's fangs to pierce my skin and draw blood, I later realized it was simply a figment of my dazzling imagination.
When I woke up from my daydream, it was just our hard core drill sergeant deadpanning with glee. No fangs! I guess she really was not that vampire creature out to collect blood. Whew! Thank Goodness!
Still, the Velvet Hammer did squeeze the blood from our workouts........fangs or no fangs! Gonna have to watch her folks.
After getting such a premium workout, I was psyched enough to run 1.5 miles after class on Friday. Little by little, I am trying to increase my distance and stamina. And I am succeeding.
Tomorrow is Saturday. I missed our Monday workout, so I owe myself one. I guess I will come in tomorrow for more blood curdling action via the Velvet Hammer! Hope you'll be there! Nothing like getting "Hammered" on the weekend! ;)
the pinK tiger..........
.....gonna get "velvet" hammered..........
p.s. And I did! I was "velvet hammered". She tanked me! (L0L)
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