Exercise details

I realized I hadn't dedicated a blog post detailing what the fitness classes had been like so far.  We've moved more to circuit exercises, each a minute long, with planks/push-ups/other horrible things in between. Here's a breakdown of what we did yesterday:

1. Come early enough, do a warm-up on the bike/treadmill/elliptical
2. Stretch with a 4ft long piece of PVC pipe (1" diameter). We hoist it up on our shoulders lengthwise and use it to stabilize our arms as we stretch
3. Use that same pipe for balance while doing 20 squats and 10 lunges on each leg
4. The circuit (I'll go in the order of where I started and with the weights I used)
1. Wall bounces with a 6lb medicine ball (basically the same as quick wall bounces with a basketball)
2. Woodchops with the same medicine ball
3. Balanced squats on a Bosu ball
4. Bent over rows with a 5lb weight
5. Lateral raises with a 3lb weight
6. Vertical raises with a 5lb weight
7. Battle ropes
8. Tricep pull downs
9. Mountain climbers (Jake runs)
10. Rope climb (you leaned back and lowered yourself as far as you could to the ground and then pulled yourself back up with the rope)
5. The in-betweens -- In between every second or third exercise we'd do one of the following - push-ups, planks, or side planks
6. Men vs. women races: We had a bench with 35lb weights on it for the women and almost 3x as much for the men. We had to pull the bench (running backwards) across the gym and then push the bench (running forwards) back to the starting position. The losing group had to do 20 push-ups. We did two rounds of this
7. Stretching

I did my first non-modified plank yesterday.  I also tried the WiO hamburger buns and they tasted good.