Weird Stuff

BONUS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOOOVE Bonus blogs because it usually means something very excellent!!!!! Brian did cardio with me today for the first time in almost a year and it was so much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad he had time again. It actually gave me some ideas of doing a few more things on my own, and it started my brain thinking about what I could rig up to do some of the other stuff on my own. haha. It also put a different spin on cardio for me after this weekend. One thing I heard over and over from Jeremy, the guy that did the deadlifting stuff this weekend, was that no matter what exercise he's doing, he does his best to mimick his deadlift movements. I thought that was really great and it puts a whole new light on any workout exercise that I'm doing. It really makes me feel like I'm always improving my bench no matter what I do. I've always kind of known that, but, this way of looking at it gives a direct link from each exercise to the bench press. Brian reminded me a couple of times today on some exercises we were doing. It made me enjoy the cardio more because I didn't just think of it as trying to get my weight down or maintaining my weight. I thought of it as actually practicing my bench press with every movement I did. (Plus it's always easier when Brian is there with his comments and the stuff he comes up with to do).

I didn't know he was going to work with me. It was a great surprise. I started out just doing suicides across the aerobics room. Then he came out and said "You wanna do some weird stuff?" I know I smiled from ear to ear when I looked up at him. We did some rope work, where he holds one end & I pull myself back and forth from end to end. But, he actually held it down under my arms instead of overhead so that it worked my lats more. It worked pretty well. I'm weaker that way, so, it was good to work on it. Then he gave me one of the sand bags and I had to do a triceps extension behind my head and then press it in front. It was kinda scary. My back was pretty weak trying to hold it in the air and I was pretty wobbly...but Brian walked all around the room to set other things up while I was doing it & my chair never tipped, so it was okay. haha. We did some supersets with those two for a while.

Then Brian busted out the huge 12 lb. med-ball. Now, I just have to tell you all that when I was little, my grandpa would try to work with me on catching little tennis balls and such in the living room and I would duck or flinch every time. I don't like things flying toward me at a high speed (or what to me is a high speed. haha). The most I've ever used with Brian is 8 lbs., but that's for wall bounces. He's used a 6 lb. ball for me to lay on my back and throw up at him, but, I've never touched a 12 lb. ball. Today he strapped me in a chair & we threw this ball back and forth for about 10 minutes. As if that wasn't enough for me to adjust to, then he told me to get on the floor and WE DID use the 12 lb. ball for him to drop at me while I was on my back and me to catch and throw back up at him. He said "Ready?" I said "Are you kidding me? That's 12 lbs!!!" He said "Do you want lighter?" Well, then I feel challenged, so of course I'm not going to say yes. But then, again, he said "Ready?" I said "No.", put my hands up and he let it go. I did super well though!!!!!!!!!!!! I did drop it toward my face one time and Brian said "You dropped that one! That's not my fault!!" haha. Then as we were getting done, he said "You trust me don't ya?" I wanted to say DUH!!!!!!!! But i just said a very firm, assured "Yes". lol. Then he had me do some backward wheeling across the room a few times. I actually wasn't near as bad at it as I thought I'd be.

All in all I did 30 minutes of cardio today and honest to the Good Lord it felt like 10. It was awesome & so much fun. Very refreshing. Now I have some tricks up my sleeve that I'll have to try on Saturday when he's busy training downstairs ;-)