Friday, August 13, 2010

DAY 31: CORE CARDIO AND BALANCE

Recovery Day 3

Today I woke up and did my Core Cardio and Balance workout. It was awesome. It's much easier to do when you don't go on a 5 hour hike before. I had a wonderful workout this morning and really felt great!

Then at night, I went to a Parkour class. Parkour is the art of overcoming any obstacle within your path by adapting to your environment. In simpler terms, it is getting from point A to point B in the fastest, most efficient way possible. This class was awesome! The warm up was really good and the stretches felt amazing. Then we did some exercises where we went across the floor using bi-pedal or quadri-pedal movement which were really good for my stabilizing muscles. Then came the fun part which was practicing some vault skills to get over obstables.
It was so cool because it was a fun, supportive environment where I could SAFELY practice moves and skills to gain confidence before taking it outside.

After an awesomely active day, I'm going to bed.

men

DAY 30: CORE CARDIO AND BALANCE

Today was Recovery Day 2....yeah RIGHT!

In the morning , after breakfast, I went on a 5 hour hike up through Eaton Canyon running, rock climbing and climbing up through waterfalls. IT WAS AMAZING! What a great place! We hiked upstream for 3 hours, took a short break, then came back down.

Once I was home, I was able to eat a nice meal and rest a little, then I did my workout.

It's amazing how much his workout burns some of my muscles. The deep slow exercises really really work my body well! I enjoy it but I really wanna get started on my MAX INTERVALS!