For those of you who don't know, my background is in Exercise Science. I really, truly enjoy working out.
Yesterday, after much fear and trepidation, I did my first workout with my friend Bryon, the coach, at the Borgess Sports Performance. WOW!!
I was pretty nervous about this because he is one fit individual. And he expects his clients to put for 120% (what if I wasn't up to the task?)
He taught a class yesterday that was 14 minutes long (the actual working portion) and Oh! My! Goodness! -- it was challenging!
He started us off with Tabata squats (20 seconds on -- 10 seconds rest with a goal of 20 per session ....I didn't hit that goal) for 2 minutes.
Then we moved to alternating 3 stations :
1. was a 50 foot heavy rope that you had to move to create the sine wave all the way to the end (I improved but didn't actually achieve the goal -- in any of the rotations through) for a minute
2. picking up an awkward bag of sand and carrying it as fast as a could around 2 cones (Yikes!)
3. picking up another awkward bag of sand -- throwing it -- running to it -- dropping to the ground and doing something like a squat thrust (remember those from gym class?) and then throwing the bag again -- back and forth between 2 cones.
We rotated through each station 4 times. By the last, I was completely shot! And only 14 minutes older.
The cool thing about this program was that even though each station was really tough, I only had to concentrate on doing it for 1 minute -- and like I tell my classes "you can do almost anything for a minute!"
More on the research behind why a short/intense workout is as good or better than a longer/slower workout in the next post.
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