Stretching yourself


Back to Boulder Movement this evening for more strength training. I panicked, leaving the office only 20 minutes before the session, but miraculously catching a bus that got me there in ten minutes. I’m starting to settle into the routine:

Unfeasibly hard warm up, given all I’m doing is crouching or bending over – 3 minutes of downward dog, three minutes of sitting in a squat position and three minutes of stretching one leg shouldn’t be that hard.

Abs work: 90 seconds of hollow body positions, which feel remarkably easy (maybe it’s all that Pilates I used to do), followed by 3 30 second attempts to dangle from the chin up bar with my knees up, which is filling agony, a chance for me to pull various pain-insoired gurns.

Leg work: lots of deep one legged squats, which are horrible, and lunges, which are fairly easy (again, I guess that comes down to lots of running)

Upper body: rows and pull ups, which are perhaps the most taxing because I don’t have great upper body strength.

Then stretching, where I think something’s going to pop, and that’s an hour, and I’m on my way home

I got back just in time to put the girls to bed, and fell asleep between them. That I’d planned, as a half hour nap after which I could catch up on work. I didn’t expect to sleep for almost two hours. Waking groggy at ten p.m. doesn’t bode well for a good night’s sleep (nor does both girls waking to complain before midnight…)


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