Monday and Tuesday's exercise

Yesterday my week began with an intense spin class. My usual instructor, Hazel, was out, and her replacement was a gal named Jeanette. Whoa, I think someone out to tell CanDo that they have a robot working for them! This girl could pedal so fast, it seemed inhuman. Seriously - even on my best day, I couldn't spin like that. So, while keeping up with her was almost comical at times, she did motivate me with great music, and several "sprints." She even split the room into 2 and had us "race" against each other. A great way to get the class pumped up!

Today I took kickboxing with Cheryl. Whoa - she turned it up a notch with several sets of pushups in between rounds of choreography. And I am proud to say I almost got all 4 sets of 16 one my toes. (near the end of the last set I took it down to my knees)  But, let me point out that she burned out our chest and shoulders with other goodies that made all those pushups extra difficult - punches holding hand weights. We did fast and slow jabs, uppercuts and elbow strikes holding the hand weights. Whew - that was tough!

After kick class was over, I stayed for Body Pump. As usual Shannon puts on a good class. Her voice was sounding so strained - she said she was losing it. Yet, she never stopped with her motivating "come one, you can do it, keep pushing, don't give up," and other phrases to ensure we didn't wuss out. I was sure by the end of the hour she wouldn't have a voice left. I was wrong. But, I hope she didn't have any other classes to teach.

I felt pretty spent at the end of the morning. Some nasty thing crawled into my throat the other day and I've been feeling kind of crappy. Besides the sore throat, I am a little fatigued, especially at night. I really felt that after class. And as expected, my 40-pound boy wanted mommy to hold him on the walk to the car. Dead-woman-walking.

I made it though, and feel better having gotten through my workouts. Now for tomorrow!!