Ah, the close of the weekend. For many, this is a dreaded day, as you gear up for a 40 hour week in the office. For me, it doesn’t matter what day of the week it is. Sometimes I don’t work much during the week and a ton on the weekends, sometimes I work 7 days a week (although lately that hasn’t been the case) and sometimes it evens out through the week. It works for me, since my brain is scattered anyways, but I am quite sure it would give some people an ulcer.
Regardless, somehow I still find it tough to be motivated on the weekends. I want to workout, but I also just want to be lazy. On Friday, I did a leg workout that rocked my world. It altered my Saturday workout plans, in that, I didn’t work out. I couldn’t walk. I looked like I’d been riding a horse for a week. Not pretty. I did do 100 pushups (broken up into 10 sets of 10) but considered it mostly a rest day.
This morning, I woke up late. Last night was spent at my boyfriend’s new recording studio and it was the first time that we actually got to hook up some microphones and record! It was actually really freakin’ cool, especially considering how much work has been put into that place. That put us home at around 3am, so today started out slower than usual.
I met my friend Tedi at the gym at around 2pm after running a few errands with my manfriend. My legs were still sore and I just wasn’t sure how well this was going to work out. We started off doing about 15 minutes on the treadmill to warm up and then we hit the floor.
We did a series of exercises and then turned it into a buddy workout. It ended up being a complete BLAST and we plan on doing it every weekend. It’s extra motivation to have someone there with you when you’re feeling less than motivated. I’m not going to lie, my legs probably needed one more day, but I made sure to warm them up and stretch them out quite a bit in order to get through this without injury. Here’s what we did:
3 sets:
-Squat to bicep curl to shoulder press with DB’s (12-15 reps)
…………..superset with mountain climbers (50 reps total)
3 sets:
-Bosu DB Deadlifts (you can do from the floor if you’re not very stable on a bosu) (15 reps)
…………..superset with Bosu pushups (also can do from the knees if needed) (8-10 reps)
Then we did 3 sets of 2 different ab exercises with a blaster in between each set. We switched off deciding what our blaster would be. No rest. It went a little like this:
-Opposite hand to opposite foot sit ups (10 reps per side)
-50 jumping jacks (my pick)
-Opposite hand to opposite foot sit ups (10 reps per side)
-20 low box jumps (her pick)
-Opposite hand to opposite foot sit ups (10 reps per side)
-In/Out squat jumps: 10 reps legs together, 10 reps legs apart, alternating (my pick)
-Medicine ball sit ups (resting partner throws the ball to working partner, then switch) (15 reps)
-Run around the gym as fast as you can (her pick)
-Medicine ball sit ups (resting partner throws the ball to working partner, then switch) (15 reps)
-10 burpees (my pick)
-Medicine ball sit ups (resting partner throws the ball to working partner, then switch) (15 reps)
-1000 meter row (her pick)
This was a great workout and was super motivating to have a partner. It’s nice when you split the decisions because you have some control but are also not sure what to expect. Find a friend and try this workout! Let me know what you think. (Feel free to switch up any of the exercises, but you get the idea.)