Still sore from the PREVIOUS workout

Thursday a.m. training...try to ignore the soreness in the right extender from the LAST beat-up session. Today's 30-minutes of torture included:

• Squat with medicine ball (one with handles) in one hand, do shoulder press as you stand up. 20x each side
• Jump up and down on Reebok bench (on high step setting) 25x
• Chest flyes on pec-dec 15x
• Bicep 21s (10 each second time)
• Pullups 15x
• Ham curls on ball 20x
• While still on floor from ham curls, do tri extensions with barbell 15x

Repeat all.

Thoroughly enjoyed the TNT group swim after work. Mix of drills, distance, and speed. Felt great and we all had a good time.

A good endurance workout

Here is another gem from my sadistic trainer. This workout really hits the quads and hip extenders, adductors, and abductors. Because all of it is done in 30 minutes, there is no time for rest. My legs/hips were toast.

• incline pushups on Reebok bench 20x
• plank raise one leg 30s then other leg 30s
• incline pushups on bench 20x
  
• plank side leg raises 30s each side
• mountain climber 1 minute
• burpee to frog hop to end of room and back.

Repeat all.

Snowstorm didn't stop TNT group swim

We had our first group swim Saturday, and the snow didn't keep people away. About 25 people showed up, and we got to know each other a little better. Each of us swam a length while the two coaches watched and took notes, then we learned some new drills. Looks like everyone knows how to swim at least a little -- sometimes there are people who are starting from scratch. Was surprised to find out that between the two tri teams (Elkhart and Steelhead) there are 49 participants. That's an impressive number! After our workout, I detoured through Holliday Park to admire the snowfall, and it was gorgeous! Between the fresh sticky snow in the trees and the bright blue sky, it was a beautiful day.

Carrie's killer gimp workout

I'm currently sidelined from running/jumping for at least another couple of weeks, but that hasn't mattered much to my trainer. She continues to come up with sadistic workouts. This one was a prime example of her capacity to torture. I hope I remember this one correctly. It was quite traumatizing.

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Wear 5lb ankle weights for entire workout.

• pop squats 45 seconds
• alt lunge to crane 15x each side
  
  
• pushups 20x
• centipede: stand up-bend over-walk hands out to pushup. down to end of room and back
• crab walk down room and back (sit on floor, push up on hands and feet, and go)
  
  
• plank drag feet behind to end of room and back
  
• bear walk down to end of room (hands on floor in front of you)
  
• frog-hop back

First Team Meeting with Team in Training

We had our first team meeting last night, and it looks like a great group of people.There were at least two cancer survivors, and several parents of sick kids. One of our coaches (Dea) is the mother of one of our honored heroes, Lauryn. When "victims" feel compelled to raise money for an organization as a thank you, that says a lot. I'm really looking forward to getting to know these folks.

Team in Training

I've done it again, and signed up for an event with Team in Training. The Indiana chapter has really got it together and offers an awful lot, both to participants and leukemia patients, so I decided to bite the bullet and do the begging again.

Please go to the link below and do what you can. And of course, please feel free to distribute far and wide!

http://pages.teamintraining.org/in/Steelhd10/chappelppy

The event this year is a 70.3 (half-iron) in Michigan, in late July. Ironically enough, it's where several of us used to drive regularly to play in the symphony. This will be a slightly different perspective (ha!). Am also training for an earlier 70.3 in late April, down in Galveston. All of this is part of the grand plan to do a full Iron on my 50th birthday next year.

As always, my sincerest thanks for your help!

Disconnect from reality?

There's something disturbing about the pairing of photo/headline here...