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Originally Posted by JDR3
Weekend update?????????????????????
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oh yes, the weekend update! yesterday ended up being busy with clients so here ya go JDR!
HOLY ****. What a freckin' weekend. I am so happy I decided to go to the cert. I learned so much and am so freckin sore. I'll share a few things now and I am sure much more will come to me later.
First of all I was feeling like I was coming down with something all week and of corse friday morning it starts to really hit. Kris (bf) and I drive down Friday, and i rest up friday night hoping ot feel better. Sat morning felt ok, but throat hurt and just exhaused. I show up at the facility and like 2 min after i check in Tony B (video guy) comes up and introduces himself saying there are a few regular posters there this weekend. For somereason I thought posters were the ones who attened the certs, but I guess not. Anyway, I walked by Nicole and was so stoked to see her there. btw she is freckin TINY I have no idea how she weighs 123. she is about my height and her legs are freckin SMALL, not in a bad way but in a fit, but how the hell are you squatting 265? I expected her to be bigger. her upperbody is freckin RIPPED.
We started with a lecture, then the some exercise demos then break into groups and go over the exercises with the trainers. While we were doing that Dave's comes and double checks if I can do pull-ups. I say yes. after that they call us all over and say they have 'volunteers' to do a 1/2 cindy. I whisper to my new friend Andy,' god I feel bad for those people' then I hear my name called out. WTF? **** I have to do 1/2 cindy with no warm-up and with a bunch of dudes. 2 other girls did it but they did
jumping pull-ups. these peeps were on you for form. push-ups were chin, chest, stomach, thighs all touching the ground together or the rep dosent count. each participant (8) i think had a trainer assigned to them to count and verify reps/rounds. I only did 9 rounds was on my 10th when the 10 min were up. I actually tied the guys, and beat a couple I think. I don't recall anyone breaking 10 rounds. pull-ups and squats were fine it was the full push-ups that killed me, especially my shoulder. they started off fine until round 6 or so. by round 7-8 nicole was down at my side yelling, where did those perfect push-ups go? lol
anyway, had a huge coughing fit after that. cindy while sick=not good. thankgod it was lecture time again. coaches lectures were amazing, some of the stuff we have seen already in videos but he really elaborates on everything. I could listen to him and nicole lecture for hours. that was definitely my favorite part of the weekend. At the end of the day there was another workout, but those of us who participated in 1/2 cindy were told not to do the workout, which was fine by me.
Day 2 was similar, lectures, group warm-up with 50+ med ball cleans, group skill work, lectures, Fran demo (charity freckin kicked frans ass with a sub 4 min 3:56? workout). lecture lecture, group stations. one station was muscle ups with dave. he told me to come try one, and I was like uh no I can't do it. he's like just try. I try and made it on my first attempt! sooo happy to get a muscle up! then our last station was a WOD
30-20-10 double unders, KB swings
my time was 3:40 missed the #1 girl time which was 3:20.
I was spent, and still sick. my chest is sooooooooo freckin sore. my legs ache but my chest is just done. I can't even extend my arms. putting on my bra almost killed me this mornig, and forget washing my hair.
so couple of random bits that shocked the hell out of me.
when talking to Tony (video dude) he mentioned something about me doing 'roaming diane', and also talked about a couple random things I've said in the comments. I was like dude you guys read that stuff?! I had no idea and was blown away that 1.) they read that **** and 2.) the notice names of posters. Then in one of coaches lectures he asks the group, anyone here hate
jumping rope? I am one of the people who raise my hand and he looks and me and says 'but you were a gymnast'. I said i still don't like jumping rope and he's like i don't believe that. WTF? how the hell does he know that? crazy. I think the most amazing part to me was not only do they put out this great program, but they take the time to read the posts and learn about those following CF. blew me away.
Anyway, after that I got a moment to talk to coach, say thanks and talked biefly about gymnastics. very nice guy.
I learned so much and met a ton of great people. I went into the gym last night to train my clients with more confidence, and overall knowledge. I'm also applying what I learned and planning to possibly tweak my training a bit, and after a few conversations with Nicole will be changing up my diet. I've got a bit more reading and planning to do but hope to start up next week.
Right before we left I went up to Nicole to thank her for everything and tell her she is such an insirpation to me (yes cheesy but whatever), she gave me a hug and said 'oh I heard you did 'roaming diane', you've gotta send in a video!' so cute. we chatted a bit about training etc, what a nice lady she is. glad to have met her.
amazing weekend, just bummed i was sick so it was kind of a haze. itwas like going to an intense summer camp! can't wait to go to another. we will see if I can workout today, i hurt.
Monday, September 17, 2007
rest day
: This should give me a little more free time, so I don't feel like I am killing myself.
