Grandma's Ninja Warrior Diary: My "Homework"




So, last month when my trainer was having her baby, she gave me homework for the time she would be out. I found the homework so useful that I continued it even after she came back. Just the right aount for me right now, and I can start to see some small (wish it were large, but it is small) differences.

Still, a year and a half ago, I was much pudgier, 11 pounds heavier, and with no muscles. So, since pictures do not lie (well, not usually and not unless doctored), here is my first attempt at recroding some progress.

The pictue is so helpful, I will start to do updates for my 6-month assessments. (Short-term goals are as motivating as andmore doable than long-term goals.)

For the record, here is the daily homework:

30 minutes of cardio (yeah, I get to choose and to mix and match)
100 abs (another choice and can mix and match)
50 squats

  • Monday, Regular
  • Tuesday. Sumo
  • Wednesday. Chair
  • Thursday. Jump 
  • Friday. Front lunges
  • Sat-Sun. Burpess (really difficult right now, but with practice...lots of practice...)

30 knee push ups
10 regular push ups

To that, I add something for tricepts. That is another weak part of my body. We have been working on those at my training sessions, but they are stubborn about not wanting to get built up. Keep hiding under the skin, out of reach, but I will indeed reach them one of these days. Just have to keep after them. That is one thing I have learned. Muscles will grow if you just get exercising them over and over and over and over.

Takes about an hour all told, but I can do split the time out during the day. Turns out -- managrable, and I can feel the difference. Wish I had had "homework" all yearr (because I am not otherwise good at devising training for myself though I do do have a set of weights and straps and all sorts of exercises I have learned to do with them).

Moving on up to 1 hour a day is in order; should have done that in January, but never to late to begin, right? The answer has to be "right1"





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