Thursday - February 10 - Day 46

I was sitting at the doctor's office today when I texted The Trainer and ask him to send something if he gets a chance.  Almost immediately, I got:

10 burpees
10 jump squats
10 db snatch - each arm (explanation in a minute)
10 v ups
10 knee ups
10 wall balls using 12# med ball (explanation coming)

Alrighty!  This does not look fun.  I texted him back and said "This looks gross, but definitely better than the half assed shit I came up with yesterday.  Definitely not one of my better attempts."

We had to have the Platoon 1 guys show us the db snatches and wall balls.  Yeah, I'm a 12 year old boy in a 41 year old woman's body cause I let my mind go into the gutter and thought these exercises sounded so nasty.  I laughed my ass off.

The db snatch.  I hate it.  Since I hate it, this means I'm sure The Trainer will incorporate it into all my workouts.  Kinda like burpees.  He knows how much I hate them.  I hate the db snatches almost as much as I hate the burpees.

I used a 15# dumbbell for these.  Lay it on the ground between your feet - which are slightly more than hip width apart.  Squat, pick up the db and then in one fluid motion, jump up and extend the db all the way in the air.  Sound stupid?  Yeah it LOOKS and FEELS stupid too.  Makes absolutely no sense to me.  None.  And apparently, there is a "rhythm" you get into when doing these things.  I found no such rhythm.  Supposed to do them in one fluid movement.  Yeah, there was nothing fluid about them for me.  Nothing.

Wall balls were not that much better - but they weren't as bad as I thought.  Hold the med ball in your hands, squat and when you come back up - throw the ball as high onto the wall as you can; then catch it.  Stupid little exercise.

After that, I went and got my hair did so I may be a little extra cranky for having to sit in my own funk (sweat from the workout) for 3 extra hours after the nasty ass workout.  Whatever.

YAY for completing 95% of this workout today, by the way.  I didn't finish all of it.  I sometimes can't find the extra reserve of energy to push myself that last little bit.  Just didn't have it.