Tony said he was actually going to be home a little bit earlier tonight which means I could go to the night exercise class. I was SOOOO excited!! Whitney does a GREAT job and I really wanted to attend her "Extreme Cardio Class." Even though I was shaking inside at the thought of her teaching anything with Extreme in the title! :)
It was a GREAT class. She is FABULOUS! We did a little bit of everything. I was already SO sore from the class yesterday morning that it was even a little extra hard for me. But I pulled through and felt GREAT after. Don't get me wrong - I was DEAD!! I came home and literally collapsed on the floor. Tony asked if I wanted to catch up on a White Collar episode. I said "tv's probably the only thing we can do together because I'm NOT moving from this spot!" And I didn't. For the next hour I just sat there. The only thing moving was my diaphragm.
The class definitely isn't as fun as the morning classes. The night group is a lot more serious. In the morning class, we're all talking/joking, groaning and moaning about the things required of us... and all cheering on each other's successes. But after Whitney's killer warm up when she said "okay, now that we're done with the warm up, let's move on..." and I said "what? I thought we were done now!!"... I felt that I got looks like "hey, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Yep. I felt pretty dumb at that moment. At least I was able to do everything required so I really didn't look like I sounded. ha ha. Oh well -
The other thing I love about Whitney is her vast knowledge of fitness. I explained to her about how my core is absolutely non-existent. It was never really there, but even more so now after 3 c-sections. So my problem now is that as I'm trying to turn a marshmallow into... at least a slightly hardened marshmallow (yeah, I don't even feel that I can justify using the word rock! :)... I feel that as I'm doing this, I'm hurting my lower back. So she gave me 5 different exercises that I can do to strengthen my lower back. We really are blessed here at the courts to be surrounded by SO many people with SO many different backgrounds.
Well - here's hoping that tomorrow I can even breathe without cringing in pain.....
How dare you joke about fitness! This is serious stuff Kri. Actually...you need to tel those people to lighten up! Maybe tell them the health benefits of laughter if you can't get them on board...
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