Circuit #2
1. Squats. Because of my knees, I have to be very careful about how I do these, so I am using a stability ball, just like the chick in the picture. ~ 15 reps
2. Lateral Pulls. Keeping the stability ball with me, I next get down on my knees and work my abs. I balance on my arms and roll the ball away from me, which takes me into a plank position. ~ 15 reps.
3. Band rotations. I take a resistance band and rotate my torso from side to side. This works my abs, specifically my obliques. ~ 20 reps. (I do make this face while I do it. It helps. Trust me.)
4. Tube walk with medicine ball. I take a shorter resistance band, place it on my feet, and then do five steps to the left, doing a chest press with a medicine ball each time that my feet come together. Then five steps back to the right, same thing. ~ 10lb med. ball, 3 reps in each direction.
5. Straight leg dead lift with arm curl to shoulder press. It’s a lot to say, and a lot to do. Your hands change position about 100 times. Fine, only four. But it’s a lot of thinking for me!!
You start out doing a bend with the weights.
Then you straighten, change your weights into a curl grip, and do a bicep curl.
Then switch your hands and weight out and do a shoulder press.
~ 10 lb weights, 12 reps.
6. Cable chest press. Much like the one I do in Circuit #1, but instead, just one arm at a time. ~ 12.5 lbs, 15 reps each arm.
I made it through the whole thing almost 3 times. Go me!!
Calories burned: 750
