Excellent legs workout today despite World's being annoyingly ex-central. The pouring rain seemed to bring in all the riff-raff tonight and for the first time since New Year's I actually had to wait for a machine to become available. Is it just me, or does it seem to rain every Tuesday lately?
I started off my workout with a good 15 minute elliptical warm-up where I alternated forward and backward strides. I didn't get in too many moves today but what I did do was very focused! I started off with a bunch of stretching and balancing work on the bosu ball and then did three sets of weighted one-legged bosu ball dead-lifts. Next, alternating legs and abs, I did three sets of 8 tee-pees, kneeling on the stability ball in between sets. Moving back to legs I grabbed a 30 lb. barbell and did 3 sets of 16 plie squats with the bar sitting on my shoulders/upper back. This time I did them all with lifted heels so I got a really good calf burn while hitting my hams at the same time. Definitely one of my favourite moves...and I remembered to wear long pants today to boot! haha Lastly, I did three sets of hanging straight leg lifts (12-10-8 reps) and finished up with some leg stretching on the mats. Doesn't sound like a very long workout but it took a solid hour and a half to get through it, probably because of the time it takes to get through each single leg dead-lift as well as the waiting for my elliptical. I must say, World's really needs to make a better effort at fixing their "out of order" machines...there were at least 3 open ellipticals that I could have used had they not been broken!
Tomorrow may be a run day if I'm not too crippled. I managed to get in one 5 km run last week without too much leg trouble but I'll admit I did take a walking/water break at the 2 mile mark for a few minutes before finishing it out. Even with the break though I still manged to finish in 32 minutes so at least my pace is improving!
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