Balls To The Wall

It was the first time I felt a hint of fall when I left for bootcamp this morning. The feeling of a little chill was rudely interrupted when we began our workout with an 8 minute Indian run. These runs are always made more difficult and annoying when group three is lead by people who should be group two but don't want to make the commitment so instead we end up running just 10 - 20 feet behind the group two's causing the majority of the group three's to give up and walk. I'm almost talking about myself but not quite.

After that longer than usual Indian run around the two soccer fields we did 4 sets of partner 1 minute isolated squats and 4 sets of 60 partner planking high-fives. When I was squatting with one partner my knee popped so loud she heard it even over "Sgt Zipper Pouch's" screeching. (Yes I stole that euphemism) I got through about two rounds of the planks and when it came to the third and fourth round my wrists gave up so I had to just do forearm planks. We finished out our time at the skeeter buffet with a 4 minute Indian run. Our legs so heavy from the squats it felt like they could give out from under us at any moment. I did end up having to walk for a short time but when I got the 90 second count down I picked up the pace and tried to catch the group two people since all of my group threes were dispersed.

We headed in to the basketball court for a circuit that consisted of 15s of everything; table climbs, belly rolls, stability ball planks, jumping pull ups, partner under hand ball tosses and wall ball squat tosses. Belly rolls are always so awkward, trying to keep your balance with your shins on a stability ball while pulling your knees in is difficult and it's worse to dismount. It's entirely possible when I got off my ball, or fell off rather, my stability ball may have hit the guy in the head that was behind me but he didn't say a word. When CEO.com and I headed to the next room to do our pull-up jumps Sgt Zipper Pouch asked if we wanted to do banded pull-ups...she convinced CEO.com to try it but it looked like you'd actually have to be able to do a pull-up for that so I slipped out of there and did the jumping pull-ups. The wall ball tosses proved to be excruciating as you're supposed to go into a deep squat and as you come up throw this large ball up 12 feet in the air.....all this after 4 sets of partner squats?!?!? I might have trouble getting up from my chair at work today.