Grandma and her swim buddies are savages! Don't be fooled! A water workout is no joke!
I started the day with Stadiums, followed my Intervals class. Cardio day, my favorite! It was a good class, 1 minute intervals of 7 different exercises (sprints, jump squats, speed skaters, basketball jumps, foot ball run, cross jacks, and froggers) we repeated the set 3 times, with Ab Tabatas in between. For the Tabatas there was a total of three, 1 was bicycle abs, 1 was full crunches, and one was russian twists. I can feel the twists today!
After class it was time to see what these water aerobics were all about! Katie found and tried a workout on Pinterest, and I was excited to try it out as well!
Warm Up: 5 minutes- Laps
30 seconds - Tread water, Legs only
30 seconds- tread water, hands only
2 mins- water at shoulder height, Jumping Jacks
2 minutes - water at shoulder height, Sprinting
2 minutes - Laps, Dolphin swim
Repeat 3 times
Cool Down- 3 minutes- Laps
Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong! Have you ever swam laps for 5 minutes? Non stop, back and forth, kicking, arms, whole shebang.... 5 minutes feels like an eternity.... In fact I said "This is the longest 5 minutes ever!!" Katie's response: "that's how I feel when we are running!!" Point taken.
After surviving the "warm up" it was on to the next step. Treading water, while holding your hands up in the air... I knew right away this was going to be a challenge.... I can swim, I am not a swimmer, however. So anyway, I spent most of the 30 seconds on this one bobbing under the water, fail. Next, tread water, no kicking, I got this. The jumping jacks and the sprinting were completely do able, and very effective. My arms felt like jello after wards, and I could definitely feel the sprinting in my outer thighs and glutes. Next, Dolphin swim, oh my. Back to how I said I am not a swimmer, I have a sorry excuse for form in any stroke, my go to is doggy paddle... lol. First of all, I didn't have a clue what it even was... luckily Katie gave me a you tube tutorial.... Imagine how much worse it could have been without one. I decided it resembles doing "The worm"... so envision that, with frog swim arms.... that's what I created to get through those two minutes. I could definitely feel it working my core, and if I had done it correctly I would probably not be able to bend at the waist today.... At the tail end of the third set, right around Worm time, we decided we would combine those 2 minutes with the 3 minute "cool down" since the 2 minutes of dolphin swim kind of turned into freestyle anyway! so here came another 5 minutes of laps, Not my idea of a cool down! But all in all, it was effective, my body and muscles felt tired afterwards, but I wasn't in pain anywhere which was nice! I would totally do it again, if nothing else for the laughter.
That completed my work outs for yesterday. I was pretty wore out for the remainder of the day actually!! Can't say I got much else accomplished at all. LoL. Today will be better.
Started the day with stadiums again, and this time I mapped it.... approximately 2.3 miles. I started it late, so I might be off a little, I'm going to try to do it more accurately tomorrow. On my way home from the high school I was mentally planning the rest of my day... Laundry, chores, bills, errands, when I remembered that today was the day, the day I said I would conquer that 20 minute jog. I absolutely tried to talk myself out of it, put it off, think of excuses, but my "passion" won, and I decided I would pull up at the house, and just go get it done. And I DID! I did 1.94 miles in 22 minutes, and I ran the entire 20 minute stretch without stopping. Mission accomplished! Finally.
Tonight is Muscle conditioning, yahoo! I am looking forward to it like always!
Fish and shrimp is on the menu for tonight. I was going to make Sour Cream and Bacon Chicken in the crock pot, but I forgot to defrost the chicken, oops. So it is defrosting now, and hopefully I can make that tomorrow. So for today I have some cod fillets and shrimp out. I think I will grill the fish on the BBQ, wrap them in foil with a little butter, garlic, salt and pepper... and saute the shrimp in some butter and garlic. Quick, easy, and healthy, perfect!
Here is a little fun fact I will leave you with today.... I have to remind myself of it a few times a day.... try it! :)
