September 20- Medicine Balls

Today's class focused on doing exercises from last class and adding a medicine ball in. This made the workouts even more challenging! We started with side to side stretches and I could feel a deeper stretch with the addition of the medicine ball. It also felt like the ball was pulling me down so it helped with a balance challenge. We then moved on to squats and the added weight on my legs definitely made them burn. I was sore from last class so this will definitely add on to the feeling! We took a break here and then came back for ab exercises. The cherry pickers were the hardest part for me and burned a lot. The jack crunches were hard to get used to, I was a little clumsy with ball at first but after i got a good pace I liked it. We also did L ups which surprisingly didn't hurt too much. The hardest part for me was doing the arms. The planks and planks-touch out weren't that bad but the push-ups were super challenging for me. I could feel my arms getting tired. We ended like usual with our push up routine which I can feel is starting to get easier, and that's really encouraging!