Mountain climbers are not a rest!
I’ll come to why they were a “rest” in a minute…
In case you hadn’t guessed Thursday was PT day 🙂
After traditional amt warm up plus mobility flailing, I did a warm up set of:
Squats, mountain climbers, press ups, lunges, spider plank knee to arm pit thingies, Plank step foot to outside of hand thingies.
Yes, I know I should learn the technical names of some of those things..
Following this I had to balance and lift stuff at the same time…
I did 10 per arm 1 armed chest press on a swiss ball (8kg)
10 per arm single armed bent over row (12kg)
waiters walk across the gym and back, 10kg per arm.
8 x 25 kg clean and press with the bar.
Next cam the deadlifts 😀 I love deadlifts!! 😀
I did 3 @ 60 kg, 3 @ 70 kg and 3 @ 75 kg 😀 they are just awesome everyone should do them!
After the awesome, can the bit where mountain climbers were put in as a rest :-S
It was HIIT with 20s work 10s rest, and the exercises in theory were supposed to be really high impact interspersed with lower impact for a “rest” and they went like this:
1) squat tuck jumps
2) mountain climbers
3) 360 split squats
4) spider knee to armpit thingies
5) burpees
6) press ups…
apparently numbers 2, 4 and 6 were designed to bring my heart rate down…
mountain climbers are not a rest!
andway…I went through the HIIT cycle twice then moved on to some boxing 🙂
we did the same sort of boxing as last week, it was still the same punch defence combos as normal but Matt had boxing gloves on instead of focus pads, which made the whole thing quicker and more realistic, especially in terms of the defence parts!
This is lots of fun, it is harder work than it was with the focus pads but very much fun! Especially after Matt stopped looking worried about throwing the punches I have to defend against…I pointed out it is very easy to defend against something that you know is coming because the other person looks really worried just before the move!
LAst, but by no means least, we did some gymnastics type strength and agility work…
TRX narrow chest press
Crow hold (which I managed for 1s)
180º Jumps from squat
360º Jumps from squat (I actually only managed 270º but I tried)
Dive bomber press ups
180º Jumps from a bosu to the floor
Narrow bosu press ups
then, after all this, because I had been telling Matt about the plank things we were doing in my core training course, I had to prove demonstrate that I could do plank first with my hands on a med ball and my feet on the floor, then with my hands on a med ball and my feet on a bosu…I should really learn to keep my mouth shut!
THat was all before work…
after work of course, I had to do squats!
160 standard squats
140 plie squats
and with that, day 335 complete 🙂
Project Warrior Goddess 
Another killer PT session, Sam!
I got two massive blisters, courtesy of my new hiking shoes, which I’m panicked as to how I’ll fix before heading to Grand Canyon for the hike on Thursday. 😦 😦 😦
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eeek! that is no good!! 😦 😦
Do you have compeed over there?
It is excellent and somehow magically stops the pain!
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Never heard of compeed. I’ll go check at the pharmacy. Ed just drained them with a sanitized pin. At least now I don’t have two giant water balloons on my heels. I’ll slap on some polysporin and bandaids, and then just before the hike I’ll put duct tape over the entire area (over the bandaid so as not to rip away the skin when I remove the tape. Duct tape was a trick I learned at BLR during the morning hikes. It’s so tight that it prevents rubbing/and hence blisters. I would’ve done well to have remembered that BEFORE yesterday’s hike.
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I used to tape my feet up with zinc oxide tape really tight so they wouldn’t run before walks, but I don;t seem to get as many blisters as I used to!
Order compeed from amazon…it is really really magic stuff!
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This was definitely a new-shoe issue. I never get blisters anymore (except with new shoes, apparently 😦 )
I won’t get the amazon order in time as we are leaving for Arizona tomorrow afternoon. 😦
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oh 😦 that is a shame!
I hope you find something simillar!
I used to get them all the time, I have improved a lot, but sometimes I still do, normally in the summer when my feet are hot, when dancing in new rocks…now I use thin walking socks to dance in with anti blister lining…which may or may not work but it is worth a try..and I always have at least 2 packs of compeed in my dancing bag!
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Good call on the stock-pile of compeed. I’ll definitely look into it for future hikes. I know they’ll come in handy at some point.
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They are definitely worth a try…even if they work like taking an umbrella with you to prevent it raining 😉
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exactly!
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on thinking about it…the umbrella thing is probably more important over here than in Vegas…or Arizona 😀
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apparently they don;t seem to be available in the states, but they are on amazon…
http://www.amazon.com/Compeed-Blister-Relief-Pack-plasters/dp/B004BTV42Y
I don;t know if you can get them quick enough…but they are awesome
drain the blisters carefully then cover with compeed, they have anesthetic and cushioning…I have used them to dance with blisters!
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Oh!! We have similar here — they’re called blister bandaids. I’ve used them! Sounds same – cushioned centre and some ointment of some sort. Will go buy some!
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they are like little gel packs that stick on your feet…
definitely worth it!
😀
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There are words in here that I do not understand, I’m going to google them all! Fantastic workout, but no, mountain climbers are NOT a rest. They are the most hated part of my circuits. Bad, bad mountain climbers!
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I hope they were real words and not just typos…I do those quite a lot!
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They looked like real words to me!
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That is ok then…I sometimes forget to proof read 😉
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