They worked me out today! Mar 1, 2011

This week does not seem like it will pan out to be a gym week but I am still getting it in! When my oldest came home from school today I had an epiphany and thought I should go running with him. What was I thinking? Are you faster than a 3rd grader? Well I'm not! We started out with a light jog then out of no where here comes Speedy Gonzales a.k.a. "Z." He started egging me on "let's race mommy, let's race." Me being my competitive self I took the challenge (plus the boyfriend was talking smack before we left). Z took off and flew like the wind down the street. If you could only see me huffing and puffing along the way! LOL It was fun yet exhausting at the same time. It is great to get the kids involved.

Then I had another thought, why not turn this into interval training. So instead of just randomly running with all our might I organized it a bit. We ran for our dear life like we were being chased by the mob for a 30 second count then walked briskly for 60 seconds then ran hard again and back to the brisk walk. This really got our hearts pumping and my body warmed up. We lapped the block 4 times.



When we got back to the house I wanted to start some strength exercises since today is my strength day. I asked for some guidance from my man but what I got instead was a tag team performance from Z and his dad.

These are the strength exercises they had me do:

• Squats - 3 sets of 15 while holding a 20lb hand weight
• "The Chair" - 3 sets of 10 on the left and right leg while holding a 20lb hand weight (I had to stand on a chair one foot at a time alternating the starting leg while holding the weight)
• 6-Inches - 3 sets of 10 (This is a football drill - if I messed up they kept adding more)
• Sit ups - 50 total
• "Oblique Twist" - 50 total (I sat up as if doing a sit up and then started to twist left to right)

By the end of this session I was sweating like crazy. You would not believe how my 8 year old was yelling at me and attacking me like he was my drill sergeant. His dad was just as bad. He was a little league football coach on Z's football team so they are both coming at me like I'm the player they are trying to get in line. As much as I couldn't stand them during the workout because it was hard as hell, I appreciated it at the end because I could feel that they really worked me out today.