This week I am slowly transitioning back into my exercise routine. Last week I threw my back out and could hardly move. Anytime you stop working out for a week it always feels like you are starting over so I had to account and prepare for more soreness, fatigue, and loss of strength during my work out. I am not sure if that is all in my head but that is my experience so I will go with that. Tuesday's work outs are usually circuit training of which are what I enjoy the most out of all of my boot camp days.
Today we started running (here we go... I am very tired and running seemed to be a challenge for me) but I pushed through the feeling of wanting to stop after 1-2 minutes. I find that once I push myself over that hump, I usually find myself on the other side of the run happy as I look at the time on the treadmill as it reads 10-15 min and I am a jogging little fool.
We start off with circuit training which simply put is a combination of different resistance/aerobic exercises. Generally its not designed to be very difficult (which is probably why I like it) but more so tailored to be specific to training certain muscle groups with the hope of increasing muscle and endurance.
They call it circuit training because you do a set of certain exercises on different machines traditionally for 30-60 seconds. Our trainer (John) did it a little different for us this time. He had us do 3 sets with the highest intensity we could handle for a set of 10 then lowering the resistance to the next weight for another set of 10 with the last set of the lowest weight class for a total of 30 that were done with no break back to back.
We moved from machine to machine working body parts such as chest, back, shoulders, legs, arms, and core.
In between the circuit we did exercises on mats to break it up:
25 sit ups
25 burpee's
20 oblique crunches on each side.
Getting back to the basics!
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