Part of being in the trial program is not sharing our personalized workouts with anyone else. So rather than outlining what my workouts for the week were in detail, here’s how I felt about them.
Ground workout #1—I think that my first day could be described as “Ow, my poor hip flexors!” Which is a good thing, because strengthening my hip flexors is something that I need and requested. It took me about fifteen minutes longer than suggested to do the full circuit plus warm up and stretching afterwards, but I was moving through everything at a slower pace to make sure I was doing it correctly. Left me pleasantly sore the next day. This is definitely a workout I’ll save for future reference.
Aerial workout #1—Conditioning, conditioning, conditioning. Again, what I need and requested. I need to push myself to get through each circuit without being distracted or trying to avoid specific exercises; this also took me longer to do than the estimated time, but I paused to spot and coach people, help figure out the start position of a move, and to give myself pep talks over every rep of one of the exercises. I’ll be saving this for future reference, as well.
Overall, I think both workouts are spot on as to what I said I wanted to focus on. I like that one solely focuses on aerials, and the other is solely ground based, which makes it easy for me to schedule them into my week. Also, that they’ve put together short videos that demo each warm-up exercise, each part of the circuit, and the final stretches, in addition to the written instructions. Both left me feeling like I did a good workout session without leaving me exhausted. I’m looking forward seeing what next week brings.
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