This morning I mixed up my routine a bit for a lower intensity cardio workout, and took a class called Full Out, with a dance-machine instructor, named Omar. It's a latin dance class, where we basically just follow his every move, shaking our hips, and having a good time. I really enjoy it, even if I do feel a bit silly sometimes trying to replicate his sexy moves.
After class, I had an hour of personal training with Cheryl. Today, we did what she called "pyramids." Basically, we focused on a body part, and did 3 different exercises. We started with 12 reps for each exercise, and then went down to 11 reps, and on down to 9 reps. We did that for shoulders, abs, chest and legs.
Since I had told her I was sharing the band exercises from last week, we added another banded exercise to the mix this week. It worked the triceps and was also part of a pyramid. This particular set of exercises included: 1)laying on a exercise ball with my chest over the ball, and keeping my arms level at my sides and doing tricep kickbacks 2)standing with the exercise band and doing tricep extensions (see photos) and 3) laying on my back with my head supported by the ball with my hips up in the air, using a body bar to do skull crushers.
So, the banded tricep extension is pretty easy to do. Just stand on one end of your band, to get enough resistance. Then holding the other end's handle with both hands over your head (see photo 1), simply drop your hands back toward your neck, keeping your elbows in tight (see photo 2).
You can add this tricep to a pyramid of your liking: tricep dips, tricep extensions with hand weights, tricep pushups, etc.
So there you have it. Stay posted for the next exercise of the week on Friday!
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