Second Team Workout with Tyler

Last night we worked our quads AGAIN - along with some other stuff... I am praying that Larsyn isn't going to have us doing quad stuff tonight, or walking is going to be more of a challenge! (And I will sleep downstairs if we do more stair stuff tonight!!)

We did a circuit - station 1 = stairs (aaaaaa) - we were on the second floor of the Wellness Center and during this station, we went downstairs to the basement and then walked up the stairs; station 2 - backward lunges; station 3 - I don't know how to describe these... side lunges - but they looked and felt more like slalom skiing...; station 4 - push-ups; station 5 - plank (aaaaaa); station 6 - bridge (my fave!) = when you lay down on your back, with your feet close to your rear end and you lift your rear end off the floor and hold it until that station is done... harder than it seems, but I like it, too; station 7 - used a band and the bar on the railing to do squats interspersed with arm thingys (don't know how to explain this either); station 8 - squats against the wall, with an exercise ball between you and the wall.

We were at each station for as long as it took the person doing the stairs to leave, do the stairs, and come back again - I lucked out and had push-ups when one of the mentors was doing the stairs and the time went by pretty quickly!!

So, we did one round of a circuit, then we went half-way around the track, 1/4 of the way doing side lunges on 1 side and then 1/4 of the way doing side lunges on the other side, then water break, then round 2 of circuit.  Then I thought we'd just stretch out and be good to go, because that all took 45 minutes... No dice.

Next we went downstairs to the cardio room and we each got on a treadmill and started at incline 5, we chose the speed, and for 10 minutes we increased to the next level of incline for each minute until we were at 15 (I swear I thought I was going to fall backwards!!) Then we put it back on 1 incline for 1 minute.  Finally, we stretched.

We weren't supposed to hold onto the rails for the inclines - but I did when we got to the higher inclines because I was so sure I was going to fall or collapse - this was much harder than you'd think!! And for the first time, it hurt to breathe - but I wasn't as panicky as I probably should've been and I didn't have my inhaler with me (I know, bad, bad, bad...).  But I told Tyler I would tell him if it was really bad, so I guess I was fine :)

We were DRENCHED in sweat afterwards - so that's my new caveat - REALLY sore the next day = great workout... and drenched in sweat after workout = great workout!!