Our demon-in-human-form instructor at the Y celebrates Christmas each year by wearing a series of increasingly outlandish hats to class, bringing in little treat bags of healthy snacks for us, and making us do an appalling series of exercises using the "Twelve Days of Christmas" structure. For instance, you start with one pushup; then you do two shoulder presses and one pushup; then three chest presses, two shoulder presses and one pushup ... and up to twelve burpees (squat-thrusts), eleven medicine-ball slams, etc. It takes a full half-hour. For the lower-body version we alternated 12 reps of an exercise (squats against an exercise ball, say) with lunges back and forth across the room while holding 12-pound hand weights (note the elegant echo of the "12" motif).
She told us the sum total of exercises and reps involved but I blocked it out.
Yikes!
ReplyDeleteThough I do miss the hats. :)
She was in FINE form! Plus yesterday in class there was a fit-looking college girl home on Christmas break who was wearing her team's soccer jersey. Well, that was a total red flag: "Oh, a soccer player! Let's see how strong those fine legs of yours really are!"
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas, Jenny!