December 4- Last Day

Today was the last day of class :(
 I really ended up enjoying this class way more than I thought. I learned a lot exercises that I know I can continue to keep in my life. We started with our final which was what have we learned from this class. Then we went on to do 120 of each exercise. It was really cool to see just how far we've all come this semester! Hopefully I can take another fitness class next semester because it really gave me the motivation to work out more often!

November 29- 75 of everything!

Today we did 75 repetitions of everything. Once again we started with 75 regular crunches, L-ups, and butterfly crunches. We also broke things into 3 sets of 25 to make it easier because after awhile I think all of our abs were burning! We did sit ups to the opposite leg and V-ups. The V-ups were definitely the hardest part for me! By that time my abs were pretty tired! After that we switched up to side planks and regular planks which were kind of harder for me today because I got a flu shot yesterday so my arm was a little sore. Also, we did ski lunges in 3 sets of 25 and surprisingly my legs didn't hurt as much today. We wrapped up by doing our timed Russian Twists and our fastest time was 52 seconds. We ended with push ups and were off for the weekend :)

November 27- 100 of everything!

Today's class was a little different from previous days because we amped up everything we did. We started off doing 100 regular crunches, 100 L-ups, and 100 crunches with our legs straight out. As a class we all did 10 sets of push out crunches. It was definitely harder and more challenging! Then some of us got the chance to choose exercises to do so we ended up doing 100 Russian Twists and 100 lunges. After the 100 lunges, my legs were burning so bad! We also did 100 regular bridges and 100 pulsing bridges. I didn't think that it would hurt that much but my legs were burning after that too. We also did side and regular planks, which are always hard for me. We also made our pushups harder and instead of starting at 10 we started at 11. This class was harder but I really liked the challenge even though my body is super sore right now :)

November 20

Today was the last day of class before Thanksgiving break, so although a lot of people were off traveling we still had fun. We got in a circle and went down the list of exercises everyone wanted to do. I think we had a pretty good variety of exercises. We did a lot of Russian Twists and lunges and squats. There was also some yoga which was a good balance with the more challenging exercises. Class was really laid back and relaxed and every one had an opportunity to contribute. Of course we ended with our typical push ups! It was a perfect way to really get awake and then start my Thanksgiving break!

November 16

Yesterday I woke up with yet another migraine and didn't make it to class. Thursday was basically a day of me taking advil and trying to get work done later in the day. Thankfully when I woke up Friday it had died down a lot and I was feeling better by the afternoon.

Since I hadn't been able to go to class I tried something different for a work out with my roommates. We spent the night trying out belly dancing videos. It was really fun for us to just kind of mess around and try something completely new! It was cool because we created different routines along with the video.

I also tried to think of some exercises I could add to my fitness plan. Since I really want to work on toning by legs I was looking up some different types of lunges. I found a couple of really interesting ones so I'm looking forward to seeing how those actually turn out.

November 13- Partner Work

During today's class we broke up into partners and did the core training partner routines. We used a lot of different things like BOSU balls, resistance bands, and exercise balls. I worked with Tayler and we pretty much just went down the list of exercises until we got to the end.

We started off using the resistance bands and working on our upper body muscles. We did exercises standing a few feet away from each other and pulled the resistance bands back and forth to strengthen our arm muscles. We also did some exercises where we would rotate while pulling the resistance bands which added more of a challenge by engaging our abdominal muscles.

We used the exercise balls a lot with the abdominal workouts to make it a little harder. We did crunches as well and each time we came up we had to high five our partner. I think a lot of the ab exercises really targeted the lower abs, which I like. The hardest part for me was doing the right-center-left leg drops because there were so many continuous repetitions.

Other exercises like lunges and balancing on the BOSU balls were good too. They weren't too hard but doing a lot of repetitions helped to make it effective!

November 8

Today was our first day back to a regular schedule. It was cool because some of the things we did in the teaching days were incorporated into our routine. Most of the focus today was on abs but we did some squats as well and used the resistance bands. I was glad we had our music back and were really working out. I feel like the teaching days may have been a little easier at times so it was great to get back to that! At the end of class we got in a circle and did Russian twists with an exercise ball. I love doing that exercise, I'm not sure why but it is one of my favorites. Then of course we ended with our push up routine but because it was our first time doing it in a while we took it easy and only started from 5 :)