Balance

Did 2:34: right but that included some hopping.

Several trys later i did a 2:08 without hopping.

2:25 Left without hopping

Also did 25 pushups pretty easy.

Integrative Strength

Got up at 5 and went to the gym. It's not that hard, I just go to sleep in my gymn clothes. I have been thinking about running down to the gymn (2 miles) working out and running/walking back, but I am always glad I don't. These workouts are good for me, I could not push myself this hard by myself. I was okay today, but tonight my legs are sore.

Balance:

2:12 on right
1:54 on left

Balance/Swim

Ll 2:02
Rl 2:01

Easier with boots, but still hard.

Later I swam for 25 minutes.

Playground Extreme

Did Playground Extreme this morning. Here was the layout
1. Planks, moving from side to side with feet extended.
2. Bicept curls
3. medicine ball one legged squats
4. sliding with one leg back then press with bar
5.knee kicking a heavy bag
6. one legged squats with knee suspended in a swing
7. bouning on a trampoline one bounce landing up steps and doing it again
8. squats using swiss ball and heavy weights
9. Pushups with legs on swiss ball
10. one arm presses
11. leaning on swiss ball doing shoulder presses
12. pullups
13. agility side to sides
14. Something else I forgot

one minute of exercise, 15 seconds of rest

Two circuits

warm up and cool down

I paid so I am committed to 25 classes in 3 months

Balance

I have decided to work on my balance. As a test I stood on each leg as long as I could. Here are the results:

Right leg 1:10
Left leg: 0:54

I am setting an ambitious goal of 10 minutes.

Tried again later. 1:18 left
47 right

Malibu Fitness 5K 11-24-2011

Got up early to run the Malibu 5 K with Chevaughn. It was only 15 minutes away in Farmington, but the race started at 6:45. It was cold -- 30 degrees. I wore shorts, but also had a Underarmour shirt and my ClamMan Hoodie. Still I never quite warmed up. The race was relatively flat. I ran without a watch and never really pressed myself. My IT band on the left leg acted up a little, but not enough to affect my stride. I finished in 28:57, which I was fine with. I didn't feel like suffering. Overall, it was a much nicer and far more convinient race than Manchester.

Results

28:57
9:31 pace
373 of 718
235 of 373 for men
41 of 71 for men 50-59

Integrative strength

Got up at 5:00 to get to the gym at 5:30. I did not want to go. Hopefully, if I can make it a habit, plus clean out the garage enough to have the car in it in the morning so i won't have to scrape ice in the winter, it will be easier. This was the last of my three free sessions. It is a hard workout. I didn't use heavier than a 15 pound dumbell, but it wears you down still. It is a full body weight-lifting, balance, stretching routine without too much rest. There were a lot of people there this morning. I know that I need to take these classes because I don't push myself in my individual workouts like I am pushed here.

If I join, it will cost $275 for 25 sessions over the next three months. That's twice a week, which I think is doable. I will of course be doing other workouts at home at cornerstone and on the road.

Extreme Playground

So I did the extreme Playground class this morning. It was fun, but tiring. They had the following stations.
1. Standing on a bosu ball, pulling wights off a machine with an ab twist movement
2. Using kettle balls with a squat to shoulder press
3. Doing jumping jacks on a trampoline with small dumbells in each hand
4. Holding a medicine ball and stepping over a gate, landing on a small balance ball on each side.
5. Running from one cone to the next and back
6.going under a gate, jumping up, jumping onto a banch and then again
7. Grapping a heavy bag from the floor, standing it up, dropping it, picking it up again
8. Doing a monkey bar swing from one bar to the next (I sucked at this)
9. Doing a side jump, dropping down with a medicine ball, getting back up
10. Positioning your hands on push up bar while your legs are on a slide, going up and down.

You do each station for maybe two minutes, then a bell goes off and you move to the next with a short rest in between.

We did two circuits of each. Afterwards we did 4 minutes of squat tabatas. 20 seconds of squats, ten seconds of rest and repeat X 8.

There was a warmup and cool down period. Total time 1 hour.

We'll see how I feel later today and tomorrow, but this workout two to three times a week would be good for me.

Integrative Strength

Took a one hour Integrative Strength Class tonight in West Hartford at the location of the old gym I used to go to. It was a combination of weights, blance work and stretching at a fast pace. Lots of squats and lunges with weights and pushups. When it got to the pushup part, I could barely do forty seconds of them after doing sixty plus pushups last winter. At the end the instructor told me what I already knew, i am very stiff and have muscle imbalances, and he didn't tell me this, but I have a weak core. He said there was hope for me. Thanks.

We'll see how stiff I am tomorrow, my lower back is stiff tonight. They offer a variety of classes, lots of body weight work. My goal for the next three months is overall strength and fitness, so I may make a go of it. Next class is Saturday morning. That one is called Extreme Playground. You get three free classes before you have to join.

Swim

Swam for 25 minutes. Did some 50 yard sprint's. Slow. Best time With water level start was 52 seconds. I did one dive start and that was 47 seconds. I thought I was going to fall off the starting block.

2.4 Mile Run

Ran 2.4 Miles this morning. My IT band hurt. I had to stop for ten paces at one point, thenran the rest of the way. I need to stretch more.

Gymn

Rode bike 2 miles, lifted, rode two miles

Gymn

Ran 1 mile
Did the weights
Rode 2

Legs were very wobbly after

Gymn

4 miles on bike

Lifted same as last time just a little heavier

Rode 2 miles

Gymn Workout

Rode 10 minutes on the bike, then lifted two sets of 15 on the following:

Bench Press/Incline Press
Leg Press
Lat Pull Down
Leg Extension
Leg Curl
Curls
Upright Row
Tricep Extension
Dumbell Squat

Then rode 20 minutes on bike

The Ran 1 mile at a 10:00 pace on treadmill.

Workouts have been scare lately since the storm. I am hoping to get back to a daily routine.