Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Crunches in High Heels

Here's another one for the history books...today at the gym I saw a girl doing crunches while wearing high heels. And yes, it seemed as awkward for her as it looked. I have nothing against high heels, but the crunches were useless...

My workout was not bad...moving on to the lower body/torso training Workout B of the Turbulence Training 2K3 program. I switched it up a little.

General Bodyweight Warmup

Prisoner Squat
Forward Lunges
Waiter's bow
Pushups
Shoulder Rotations
Neck Rotations
Groin Stretch
1-Leg RDL
Prisoner Squat
Forward Lunges
Chest Stretch
Hip Flexor Stretch
Side Stretch

Specific Warmup

Overhead Squat - 95x3x5

Squat - 45x15, 135x12, 185x8, 225x6

Strength Sets

Squat 275x5x5

Supersets

1A) Forward Lunge 135x2x8
1B) Side Plank 2x45seconds

2) BB RDL - 225x10

3A) Plank - 2x60 seconds
3B) Stability Ball Leg Curl - 2x20

My legs will be sore tomorrow, even though I held back on the heavy weights today. It was the lunges that got them.

One last tip before I go...

If you are going to do cleans - or "what you think are cleans" - don't do them with a fixed barbell, and don't just reverse curl the weight from your hips to your shoulders. That is lame.

Either learn how to do it properly, or find something else to do.

You can't clean a body bar,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

PS - I'm looking for a good gym near the World Trade Center area of NYC for Thursday...anyone, anyone?

Jay Ferruggia said there is a Gold's Gym near there but if you have a better idea, let me know.

PPS - If you want to join me on the TT2K3 workout...

... Click Here to grab your copy of Turbulence Training

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Crunches in high heels is something you should have taken a picture of.

Craig Ballantyne, CTT, Certified Turbulence Trainer said...

This is true. Though I may have gotten a heel in the eye for my troubles.

Unknown said...

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