We did this really fun workout last week that really challenged the entire core from top to bottom. Everyone loved it even though it was pretty tough.
Don’t have ropes and chains at home? No problem. You can drag anything. Just stay low and tight.
We did this really fun workout last week that really challenged the entire core from top to bottom. Everyone loved it even though it was pretty tough.
Don’t have ropes and chains at home? No problem. You can drag anything. Just stay low and tight.
So much has happened since I lasted posted here. I’ve actually been busy with another blog, www.superstrongnana.com. I’m quickly approaching 50 and suddenly have a lot more interests in my life.
Out of all the stuff I’ve been into in the last few months, boot camp is still my first love.
We’ve really changed some things around and the first was for me to take a step back from teaching. This was very hard for me because I felt like I should be at every class since this is the business I started back in 2006. The worse part is not seeing all of the friends I have made over the years. I just couldn’t continue to run the business and get up at 3:30 am anymore to teach classes. The lack of good quality sleep effected everything from my personal life to the business.
I have now turned over the reins to Mike who has been by my side for almost the whole 6 years. Two of our clients have earned their Hardstyle Kettlebell Certification and one of those, DK is working with us “full time”. Becca will be helping teach Kettlebell classes along with Mike Munroe, another long term client.
So that leaves me with teaching a few classes, doing personal training and running the business.
We’ve changed things around and added some new classes. Some of the things we are offering are Monday, Wednesday, Friday classes at 9:00 am and 6:30 pm in addition to the classes we have always had.
We are doing monthly adventure race training with our new side business, Adventure Race Camps. We can do any type of adventure race training from 2 hour obstacle race training to all night Death Race training. Some people use our ARC to prepare for races and others use it as a gut check.
We are coming to the end of our boot camp transformation challenge that began the first week of January. So far our top male and female leads have lost over 25 pounds and that is without doing anything crazy.
We are also about to begin an on-site boot camp program for Killearn Lakes Elementary School. I am very excited about this opportunity. I think teachers today have one of the toughest jobs there is and to do something to help them improve their health is a blessing.
Now that I am not waking up in the middle of the night anymore, I hope to keep up this blog as well as all of my other projects.
I got this quick video on Wednesday of the 5:30 pm class wrapping up their workout with this human centipede ab workout.
Had to bring the tires in for this one. The storm was out of this world!
Circuit was rounds of
4 tires flips
Sandbag burpees and cleans to press and overhead walking lunges
Towel drags with DB rows
Pull ups
Finished with I go, you go Kettlebell Swings doing 20, 12, 8 and 5 for 8 minutes.
I keep promising myself that I would be more faithful with this blog but as you can see, it’s not working out so well. It’s sad though, because I love to write and actually miss it. Keeping up with Facebook, Twitter and other sites I subscribe to are sucking up my time. I need to remedy that and soon.
Anyway, here is a quick video I shot of one of our workouts in May. We snuck in some corrective exercises cleverly disguised as part of our circuit. I find just telling people that a particular exercise will work their abs or butts will take care of any concerns or questions. It’s like putting your dogs heartworm pills in peanut butter. He thinks he’s getting a treat, but actually he’s getting something good for him.
Ricky thought of adding the skaters to the ropes and it was great. So the circuit was;
Rows
Tire flips
Kettlebell DL
Jump Rope
TRX Squat, Row and Curl combo
Crazy Ropes
! leg bridges (our corrective exercise)
Aquabag Reverse Lunges
We had a great workout on the ramps at Doak Campbell Stadium with the Tri-Delts.
After warming up they selected 4 cards. Each suite represented a certain exercise. They had to do 10 reps of 1 of the exercises drawn on the landing of each ramp. Of course they had to run the ramps in between.
The second round was 1 card, 10 reps for the exercise on each landing.
Last set was walking lunges half way up the ramp and finish with a sprint.
The girls did great and were a fun group to work with.
March Madness Begins
64 reps
New people do 32 reps (or 16 reps)
1 person does 65 reps (representing the play-in team)
Rows on the rings
Push-ups
Bicycles
Cobras
Jump squats
Jump lunges
Kettlebell Deadlifts
Kettlebell Swings
Wall ball
KB see saw press
Advanced do all 64 reps before moving on
all others can divide as needed.