Wednesday, June 16th

Well - I was suppose to work out Monday but my trainer kinda sorta forgot to put me in the calendar. It is OK, it happens. So instead I work out today and tomorrow. My first "two days in a row" workout. We'll see how I feel :)

Today I worked out alone...I kinda like those days because we get to focus more on technique and learning new things. Today he had me do overhead squats. It was my first time doing them...they "seem" easy in theory (well, kinda) but not so much once you are doing it! You hold a barbell up over your head and then do squats. Squats are hard enough without having to hold a bar over your head the whole time! I used a "lady's olympic bar" which is 30 lbs (the mens is 45) and then we added 5 lbs to it..so I was lifting 35 lbs. Not much! But the core muscles you use to hold that sucker up, oh my! So I did 5 rounds of 5 reps of those.

My "workout" today was the Elizabeth

21-15-9 reps of:

hang cleans (41 lbs)

ring dips (think rings that the guys use in gymnastics, I'm "dipping" on those, but I do use a band across that I rest my knees on so it is a slight bit easier)

This is for time...I did that in 9 minutes 29 seconds. Not sure what the normal is (probably far faster than what I did!) but hey, it is a start! It was my first time doing this workout too.