Fitness Evaluation

I’ve been work­ing out at least three times a week since mid-Decem­ber and I sup­pose that changes are start­ing to take place. I’m lift­ing more and might be putting on some weight, but for the life of me I can’t seem to get a decent ab-work­out. I used to have this killer one that I picked up from the cheer­lead­ing squad at ND, it would real­ly kick my ass; hun­dreds of ab-doobers in a ses­sion. Unless I’ve for­got­ten some­thing or am doing things incor­rect­ly, this work­out isn’t doing much any­more. The gym has med­i­cine balls to help out, and I think I’m going to start doing at least the ab work­out and pushups even on off days.

Now that the weath­er is pick­ing up, I’m ready to run again. I find myself sniff­ing the air and hop­ping around like a goon.

4 thoughts on “Fitness Evaluation”

  1. If you’re talk­ing about the Fit­works where I go, I high­ly rec­om­mend the two ab bench­es that are near the train­ing desk. You fit your feet under the lit­tle black things and then lie back against the pads…do you know which ones I mean? One if flat like a nor­mal bench and the oth­er is an incline. You can hug a weight against your chest to make it hard­er. The one that’s the best is the one with the real steep incline.
    I also rec­om­mend the two machines that require you to prop your body up and then lift your legs in the air. If you do a few sets of 20 reps in a row, you should feel it! I do a set of 20 of just rais­ing my legs straight out and then go right into a set of 20 of rais­ing them in tuck posi­tion with my knees bent. And then the real killer is that I fin­ish with a set of 20 of rais­ing them out in front of me straight, hold­ing them there and flex­ing at the knee and puls­ing out…kind of hard to explain.

  3. I think we go to dif­fer­ent Fit­Works, Aman­da. I’ve been using the ab-bench­es, but apart from the incline one, I’m not get­ting much out of it. I might call up friend I know who has some great con­di­tion­ing rou­tines.

  4. I tore one of my abs ( a por­tion of the rec­tus abdomi­nus) using one of those machines in high school. Took for­ev­er to heal.

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