To set the mood.
Usually my
Thursday morning 7am Body Conditioning class is just perfect. Leesa uses these
CDs so everything is structured and you know you’ll have at least the odd
break. The page says three sweat drops but I would say it rarely goes above 2
and you have a nice ab crunching session at the end where you can cool down and
regain a regular body temperature at the end of the session.
But not
this week. The CDs always make me laugh because I don’t really understand what
the bad is saying. This week it sounded like “The Mega Fix Chicken Leg Work Out”.
So that’s what I’m going with.
I will
point out at this point that each section of exercise was accompanied by a
repetitive Reggae riff. Which whilst had a nice rhythm to work to, it also made
me feel like I should be I should be re-enacting this scene from Never Been
Kissed...
Which I
could only find in French. Apologies.
Here is the
sequence of events (Bear in mind I don’t know if these are the real exercise
names):
Round
one
Burpies –
Press Up Variation - Two step dash - Borrower Squats
a. 20 seconds work. 15 seconds rest.
b. 25 seconds work. 10 seconds rest.
(More work less rest are you kidding me? It’s 7AM!)
c. 20 seconds work. No rest.
Round
two
Squat
Thrusts – Hot Hands – Sprint in place – Take Down (this is some sort of tribal
looking lunge)
a. 20 seconds work. 15 seconds rest.
b. 25 seconds work. 10 seconds rest.
(More work less rest are you kidding me? It’s 7AM!)
c. 20 seconds work. No rest.
Round
three
Skaters –
Crab walk (I am not coordinated enough nor do I have the upper body strength
for this... I did a plank) – Two side step touch – Squat Jumps
a. 20 seconds work. 15 seconds rest.
a. 20 seconds work. 15 seconds rest.
b. 25 seconds work. 10 seconds rest.
(More work less rest are you kidding me? It’s 7AM!)
c. 20 seconds work. No rest.
Round 4 YES YOU ARE READING THIS CORRECTLY THERE WAS A FOURTH ROUND AND I
SUSPECT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MORE BUT THIS TOOK US TO 30 MINUTES WHERE SHE TURNS
OFF THE CD.
All 12
exercises. 20 seconds work. 5 seconds rest. Which is the equivalent of no rest because
it gives you enough time to take a breath, remember what the next episode is
and hold down vomit. Just...
The whole
experience was improved greatly by the new man who has braved the morning
exercise team and made everything look as theatrical as possible. A bit like
this:
Good work out guys. Good work out.
