Fit2Fat2FitBlog Day 19 February 5
The Coaches heard “Throwback Thursday” and thought it was “Throw-up Thursday.”
But I didn’t puke. I thought about it once or twice. And by the end of the workout, I was thankful for the butt-kicking. I needed it. Really.
Coach Neil started us with dynamic warmups. (warmups on the move). We stretched and then headed to the end zone. Up first? This: Bear crawls for 10 yards, inch worms for 10 yards, lunge and twist for 10 yards, crab walks (which my shoulders hate) for 10 yards and then a sprint to the other end zone. Then we sprinted 100 yards back. I think we did that three times but it may have been four.
That was just the beginning.
Line 1 ran into the weight room where we did a weird type of pushup that focused on our (burned out) shoulders. Then we did arm circles to make them burn more. We repeated that a few times until it was time to go back out.
Coach Richard had us do an exercise on the box (like box jumps for example) and then we did 200-yard heave and retrieve (throwing a 12-lb. weighted ball down the football field as you sprint.) We did 800-yards of that. (I think). I hit one of my teammates with the ball. I have guilt.
From there, we did a 60-yard W-drill where we sprinted, backpedaled and shuffled from the sideline to the hash every five yards — nonstop. Coach Trahan kept us moving the whole time — and then at the end had us run a 100-yard sprint.
I am not the fastest in Line 1, but I’m not the slowest either. At the fifty, I was in the back group and found a little more in my tank. I kicked it in and finished faster than I thought.
Today is a tough for me personally. But this morning’s workout showed me that I have a little more in the tank than I thought. I wasn’t mentally prepared for today, but I did it. That gives me the confidence to know that I can handle whatever life throws at me today.