Happy rainy hump day...afternoon. So we are even further over the hump than this morning, I'll take it! Day 5 of rain in Boston, I honestly feel like I moved to a different region of this earth where sun doesn't exist. Sort of weird and a little depressing. It will clear up for this weekend, so weekend please come faster! Sports update: great Bruins' win last night, what a crazy entertaining game to watch. I was in bed as the basketball game was happening so can't comment on that. Biggest Loser was amazing last night, the two smallest girls lost the highest % of weight and I was super super impressed. There may or may not have been tears on my end, it gets emotional.
I went to bed a little earlier last night [granted my standard bedtime is before 10:30pm so not saying much] because I had an impromptu appointment with a trainer at my gym at 6:15am. I don't really know what it is about me, but trainers love talking to me. What sports I do, my lifting program, technique, you name it and they want to chat with me about it. Anyway, one of the trainers at my gym came up to me last week and asked if he could show me a few new moves so I was like....ok go for it. He showed me these weird cross over pushups and 1-arm dumbell clean and squat. Both were fine but clearly not life-changing. After his little demonstration, he asked if he could do some muscle testing so he could help show me what muscle groups I should focus on going forward. I figured hey ok, he wants to do this for free, I'll let it happen.
Fastforward to 6:15am this morning. I show up at the gym and he asks me to sit in his office, where he proceeds to force me through a 30 minute conversation about my athletic history, future goals, injuries, nutrition, and everything else you could possibly talk about. 1. I was not prepared to talk for 30 minutes, nor did I have any interest in doing so and 2. I was comatose, it was 6:15am. Finally we got to the muscle testing portion of this little free consultation and he was like 'squat', so I squatted and he nodded. 'Do a pushup', so I did a pushup and he nodded. 'Lay down and extend one leg at a time to exhibit your hamstring flexibility', so I did as I was told and he nodded. After 10ish minutes of this routine, he goes 'well, you are very well balanced' at which point I told him that the session had finished because I needed to do my workout.
Ummmm that was SO not worth my time. Not only did I get up an extra 15 minutes early for this, but I also wasted 45 minutes of valuable workout time and SOME of us have to be at work by 9am. UGGGG. I managed to squeeze in a killer lower body circuit in the 20ish minutes I had left, but I did not leave smiling. I understand that his intentions were good, but the actual process and outcome was pretty worthless. Fault is totally mine, I will never accept a 'free fitness consultation' again. I advise you all to pass on the opportunity [unless this process sounded eye opening to you]. I feel like I need to wear a sign 'please don't disturb' around the gym sometimes. Goodness gracious! That is my rant for the day.
If you ever find yourself with an unexpectedly SHORT amount of time to workout, give this circuit a shot. It made my legs exhasuted and I was super sweaty, so I'm sure it did some good:
4-5x through the circuit - 90 to 120 seconds rest between sets
10x each kettlebell front lunges
20x squat jumps
20x weighted leg press
20x kettlebell squats
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