Well that sucked...

OK - so I have a cold. It is just in my head and everything I read says I can still work out as long as everything is "above the neck". So off I went. I told myself I would take it easy...well, that is not so easy to do when you are working out with two others and the workout is what it is. So I broke down again...yup, again. I have broken down crying one other time and today I just remember that I had a major headache that day...so I guess working out when I don't feel good is not good for my emotional health, haha! Oh well...Justin is an awesome trainer and deals with it...the poor thing should have a degree in psychology to train me! He lets me get it all out and then gets me through the rest of the workout. The two people I was working out with were very supportive too...they were right there counting down the reps with Justin and urging me on.

So today's workout was this:

100 thrusters

3 burpees every minute on the minute

So my goal was to get 100 thrusters in. I used a 30lb bar. With a thruster, you hold the bar at the top of your chest (can't think of a better way to describe it) and then squat and as you stand up, thrust the bar up over head.

I did great at first. I got 20 thrusters in that first minute. Then I did 3 burpees. Then I was tired. Then I couldn't barely lift the darn bar off the ground, hehe. I broke down at about 65 thrusters. It was to the point where I was doing 2 or 3 thrusters and then having to do burpees again. I was starting to hyperventilate (all part of me crying really)...freak out, whatever. So I took a walk to the bathroom and back...probably took a good 2-3 minute break and then Justin talked me back into it...told me I was going to do it and I could finish it. I did 15 thrusters that first minute (helped to have a break)...got the rest done in intervals of 5. Phew! I felt much better afterwards.

Then we had to do some ab stuff on the floor. The first one was a straight arm plank and then bringing one leg at a time into our chest (trying to touch our knee to our elbow, that wasn't happening!). We did those for 3 rounds, 30 seconds each. Then he had us sit on the floor, lift our feet and balance on our butt basically for the same (3 rounds, 30 seconds each). Then we stretched a bit.

Good times! Embrace the suck, as Justin would say!