I Felt Like G.I. Jo

I think Sgt Laura took a page out of G.I. Jane for today's workout. Our first exercise was called The Human Stopwatch Drill. I tell you, there's nothing more effective when torturing someone than inflicting the pain on someone else and making them watch. That's what the Human Stopwatch did. We had to pick a partner and go to opposite ends of the 2 basketball courts. One of you must plank while the other person runs the length of the 2 basketball courts and back 5 times. The idea that someone is suffering through planks for that length of time is a good motivator to run faster. What made it even worse was the three rounds we did, we had to have a new partner for each one so you had to torture three separate people.

We then went to the classroom for sets of 60 partner sit-ups, planking high fives and side crunches. The planks and the high fives I can do with some speed but ain't no way I can pump out 60 sit-ups quite yet. I think I slowly got to 30 when this pinching in my lower back became unbearable. Thankfully on the round of 40 we did, I was partnered with G-Boss Man so we were in the same boat, planks and side crunches ok, sit-ups not so much. Sgt Laura didn't even believe us when we finished the planking high-fives, probably because G-Boss exaggerates every other number. :-)