Saturday Morning Cardios

Good Evening,

Its been a busy weekend. Sorry for being late with the blog. This Saturday morning was my first Saturday workout with the group. Every Saturday I'm bringing a guest and they are going to blog about their experience at Versus. My first guest was Krista. Krista thinks she is a work out master. I remember good times when i would sit on her couch eating krispy kreme donuts as she completed her P90X. The only encouraging words i had for her were " Superman" and "Banana". lol. She has always worked out, and she has an amazing body to prove it. I just knew she would want to be my first guest. The whole week we grew excited and nervous at the same time. I did not know what Nathan was going to have us do, but i knew it would be challenging. I go to pick Krista up, and she comes outside all decked out like she was going to play tennis with one of the housewives of Beverly hills. Soon i noticed the nervousness in her eyes. As we pulled up to Jackson Trail, i see a ton of fit, skinny, good looking people, stretching and talking. Instantly i wanted to turn around and go back home. Luckily i had my ace right there to keep me focused. We did our normal warm-up, which for Krista was a breeze she finished ahead of me and then started stretching like she in the Olympics.  Our workout for the day would be to run 200 meters, at the end of the 200 meters, we had to do 10 kick-backs. Run 200 meters back to the start line and do 10 jumping squats, we did all of this for 20 min AMRP. I did 3.5 rounds, which i am still amazed at. Krista completed 5, and some guy in blue did like 7. It was an awesome workout and probably one of my favorites. Its such a nice feeling to run in the wild as i would call it. I will tell you that if you run on the trace have your middle finger ready for the bikers. Supposedly the bikers have the right of way, i don't agree. The bikers on the trace were a little cocky and rude, if i had not been out of breath i would have thrown a stick into one mans spokes, take that "coming on your left". Here is Krista's Blog about our workout, you will notice that she uses great grammar, it should be a much needed re leaf for all of my educated followers.

Krista take it away:..........

What did I just do? I took my level of pride from a 7.5 to a 1.3. Of course I knew the "versus workout" would be challenging. . . I prepared myself early- had a healthy dinner the night before and turned in early for plenty of rest. 8 am, alarm goes off, I'm up and out of bed like it's the first day of school. I put on my cute workout gear, eat my 70 cal. Light and Fit Activia yogurt, grab my bottled water, bandage my blister and wait for Matt's text. We arrive at the Jackson Trace about 9 a.m. There are about 20 or so people standing around, stretching and such. I'm excited. I've worked out my whole life and just recently started eating healthier, jump roping, plyometrics, and all around trying to do better. I'd seen changes in myself and was ready to be put to a different challenge. We join the group. We all know that no matter how much one may argue against it, there is a certain competition among the female class. Whether that be a good or bad thing, it's inevitable. So not only do I want to do my best, I also don't want to be the slowest chick out there looking like I've never set foot in a gym. We begin our stretch and matt tells me I'm showing off. "Um, this is how I stretch, Matthew." Then I refer to The Office episode where Michael Scott hosts a Run for Rabies Cure and gets mad because Toby is stretching and taking it too seriously. Lol. Anyway, Nathan- the instructor- tells us our workout is to run to the orange cone (400 meters), do 15 kick backs, run back and do 15 jump squats. Each set was 1 round and we had to do as many rounds as we could in 20 minutes. Easy, right?? So we start lining up and he tells those who will be running faster, to get towards the front. Matt goes straight to the back. Lol So I get somewhat toward the front but not too far so I don't get embarrassed. We are about to begin when a girl comes and gets in right front of me. Immediately I'm thinking "Oh, for real?" But when we started running, I was glad she did bc then I would've been more embarrassed. She was good and unknowingly challenged me to do better. The beginning was basically a "ooh look at me, I'm running fast and I'm really fit," the middle was more like "uh, for real!?" and the end was a "is he ever going to stop us?!" Nathan was very encouraging. He didn't yell, he only encouraged positively in a soft voice. Which I found comforting in my time of pain. At round 5, he tells us "30 more seconds, get your last squat jumps in." "Happily!!," I thought. As soon as I was done, I checked around for my partner. There he was coming up right behind us all with such integrity. He did 3.5 rounds! I was so proud of him. I ran to him so we could finish together like we were a real team. I should've started yelling at him like a drill sargeant just to see what he'd do. Lol So I go to stretch, right? And I notice this girl staring at me so I look up at her and she says "Um, are you going to vomit??" ... Wow. "No, just stretching, thanks!" We finished the workout off with about 10 group pictures and headed back with a new sense of self. I'm glad I did it and if anyone wants to back out now, I'll gladly fill their spot.