Bonnie's Journey to Fitness
It might be hard, but I'm proving it can be done at any age.
This is a picture from the very first TWR Soldier Field Charity Hill Climb. The 3rd Annual event is next Saturday, October 9th and I can’t wait!!!
Not only did I put in 10 hours each day at the office, but I worked out every day. Five of those days with my trainers at TWR (a double session on Saturday). Ron, DB & Matt have a way of putting a workout together that not only challenges you … but may even have you laughing.
Ron came up with one he calls “The Assignment”. What is that, you may ask? Well, in one hour you must complete a 20 wall walk/run (carrying a 25 lb plate), 3000 meters on the row machine, 3 miles on the Airdyne bike, 200 low pull-ups, 200 push-ups, and 200 squats (while holding on to a 25 lb plate). You could break them up - do 25 pull-ups, 500 meters on row machine, 1/2 mile on bike, etc. until completed. My attempt at it was last Saturday and I was so close … only missed 25 of the squats, pull-ups and push-ups.
But wait … he added a Part 2. I faced this on Tuesday … and oye is all I’ve got to say. This time you could not break them up … if you started with the row machine you had to get in all 3000 meters before you moved on to the next one. It was the pull-ups that slowed me down … but I completed the workout with one second to spare! What an accomplishment.
DB found a way to get me running again. He had this great circuit where I would do 3 upper body moves (like the one-arm pulls, shoulder press, bench press, tricep extensions) and in between each round would hop on the treadmill and run first 1/4 mile, than 1/2 mile, back to 1/4 mile and ended with 1/2 mile. Each time I was able to beat my prior time. What a rush! He also has this thing with squats. One day he even put a tight band around my ankles and had me squat a total of six walls …. but he assures me I’ll have a J-Lo tush, circa 2002 very very soon.
I think Matt’s favorite “toy” is the new heavy workout ropes. The big one is very intimidating. The smaller one is a little easier … that is until Matt has you balance in a squat position on the Bosu ball while thrashing the rope, 100 times each arm. What a cardio workout! But what he had in store for me today took the cake. I walked in and there was a board, which he had split between strength and cardio. The strength side consisted of a 30 push-up walk, 30 pull-ups, 30 squats while holding on to a 25 lb plate, 30 curls (15 lb weights) and 30 shoulder presses (15 lb weights). The cardio side consisted of 100 jump ropes, 2 wall sled pulls, 2 wall tank push, and 4 wall plate run/walk (25 lb plate). You would do all the strength moves, in between each one the first cardio move - like the 100 jump ropes. You would keep repeating the strength moves until all the cardio moves were completed. Once I got over the initial shock of the push-up walks … I became focused … found myself in the zone until I completed it. And I must give myself a special Kudos … this was the first time I was able to jump rope since I cracked my ankle back in May. And I did a total of 500!!! I love the jump rope!
So as you can see … this was a great workout week. One which I plan to repeat for another 4 weeks.
My nephew is coming into town on Wednesday for a visit! Thursday morning I am taking him with me to TWR. Hoping he can keep up with me!!
