Tuesday, May 21, 2013

TRX journey started last night

East Shore YMCA TRX room
Tonight was night one of my TRX classes. I signed up because it looked interesting and I need something to challenge me. When the West Shore Y started offering them, I remember telling my trainer that I could never do that, I don't have the balance. Amazing what a year can do for one's attitude.
So, after helping arrange someone to go to tonight's Oriole's game tonight with hubby (kinda forgot we had tix), I arrived at the gym and made my way to the studio. Set myself up there in the back left corner, so I wasn't totally visible from the front door, and got ready. We started out with some stretching that kinda got the heart pumping more than I anticipated. LOL! 

Since it was the first class, we did the very basics and wow, could feel it immediately! I felt good about myself because I wasn't the only one who struggled a bit with it. You could hear people in the room breathing hard, grunting, and kinda laughing. I tend to laugh when I can't do something and it seemed like I wasn't the only one who does this. 

After the class, I could already feel the soreness in my quads. I walked down to the ladies locker room saying to myself, don't fall down the steps and land on the nice lady in front of you. LOL! I didn't. 

I then managed to walk back upstairs (4 flights of stairs) to the fitness center. I somehow managed to run my interval routine. That first mile of running almost brought me to my knees! My quads were just not happy. I got through that mile and each running mile after felt easier. Hopefully that means I ran out some of the soreness setting in from TRX. If you're interested, here's my interval routine. Going to change it next time, move up the speed.

30:00-29:00 ~ Run 5.4
29:00-28:00 ~ WALK 3.5
28:00-27:00 ~ WALK 3.5
27:00-26:00 ~ Run 5.4
26:00-25:00 ~ WALK 3.5
25:00-24:00 ~ WALK 3.5
24:00-23:00 ~ Run 5.4
23:00-22:00 ~ WALK 3.5
22:00-21:00 ~ WALK 3.5
21:00-20:00 ~ Run 5.4
20:00-19:00 ~ WALK 3.5
19:00-18:00 ~ WALK 3.5
18:00-17:00 ~ Run 5.6
17:00-16:00 ~ WALK 3.5
16:00-15:00 ~ WALK 3.5
15:00-14:00 ~ Run 5.6
14:00-13:00 ~ WALK 3.5
13:00-12:00 ~ WALK 3.5
12:00-11:00 ~ Run 5.6
11:00-10:00 ~ WALK 3.5
10:00-9:00 ~ WALK 3.5
9:00-8:00 ~ Run 5.8
8:00-7:00 ~ WALK 3.5
7:00-6:00 ~ WALK 3.5
6:00-5:00 ~ Run 5.8
5:00-4:00 ~ WALK 3.5
4:00-3:00 ~ WALK 3.5
3:00-2:00 ~ Run 5.8
2:00-1:00 ~ WALK 3.5
1:00-0:00 ~ WALK 3.5

I think it helped me on my 5k this past Sat. I felt like I was going faster throughout my race and my times reflected that. I'm happy to see such a noticeable difference so quickly. Makes me want to keep doing the above. I've got less than 2 weeks til Zooma. Gotta do whatever I can to be as ready as possible. I think I'll even keep at this routine come summer when I take a break. It's tough. It's challenging. It's making a difference.
Hoping I'll be able to walk today...

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like you are ready and willing to kick some ass! Keep up the good work!

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    1. Well, I'm tryin'. LOL! Right now my quads won't allow for any ass kicking. Too sore. Sore is supposed to be good right???

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