Week eight, Workout #22

April showers bring May flowers, right?

BUT I am sick of the rain, especially when I am working out. Monday was another one of those days. Although it did not rain that much on us it was still wet but that didn't stop Anthony from having me lay down on the wet turf!

Monday was another introduction into a exercise. The pull up and chin up! Man those are soooo tough. We'll be doing those twice a week from here on and as Anthony says, it is a pure strength move.

After the warm up which included a run for the first time in weeks we went right to the chin ups and pull ups. Thereafter we moved to the football field with the medicine ball. We worked on an exercise we did 5 weeks back which involved throwing the medicine ball as far as I could, lunging to it, doing push ups on it (one hand on the ground, the other on the ball) then picking it up and starting over. We did this up and down the 100 yrd field 6 times! We would throw over head, sideways, backward, etc to activate the core. Thereafter we moved to a core power workout which included full body push ups and sit ups while holding the medicine ball. The full body push ups is all about power. In the up stroke you force your entire body in the air...not only the hands as in a clapping push up but the feet too! We went right from that to sit ups while holding the medicine ball then back to push ups and so on. I think we did three sets, maybe four but I lost track as this was very very hard and kicked my ass.

Another great workout in the books.

Until tomorrow.

T