Session 9 of ASA's May MVP class
Upper body day! At one point, G said, "You're getting stronger, Kitt. I can tell." Whoo!
Ladder drills. Kris had started early on these, so we were a little messed up. Nothing new here, the usual LR-RL, scissors, outside-L, outside-R, outside-R-outside-L-outside-together, outside-inside, etc.
The first exercise was explosive jumping. We had a medicine ball between our feet. Squatting down, explode into a jump, bringing the medicine ball up and catching it. I figured it out eventually, but thought the 6# ball was rough.
3 sets of the explosive jumps were broken up with 30 seconds of 12" box toe taps. I seem to do those much better than Kris does, for some reason. He can't find a rhythm or something.
Since this was an upperbody workout, the next drill was overhead passes from the knees. 3 sets of 12, followed by 3 sets of 12 overhead passes standing (feet shoulder width apart). We then did chest passes. I had a hard time catching the 8# ball, so G caught the ball for me and passed it to me, for me to throw to Kris, who threw back to G.
I had traversal pushups next, three sets of 10, whereas Kris had the pushups where one hand is on a medicine ball, explode up from a pushup and land with the other hand on the ball. I managed a few of them (6) on the last set.
The next drill was inverted pushups along the wall. I didn't do so well on these. I couldn't walk on my hands to back up towards the wall, and ended up doing a cartwheel into a handstand with Kris helping me stop my rotational momentum. I managed to do a few micro-dips, but not enough to say I did any pushup.
Tricep dips followed. Using the 12" wooden boxes, legs out straight, three sets of 20 tricep dips. I did okay, nothing spectacular. My wrists hurt after the first set, implying I was going them wrong.
Standing twists came next. Standing with an athletic base, holding a weight plate (I had 25#, Kris had a 50# plate), looking straight ahead, twist side to side for 30 seconds. 3 sets of these.
The usual 15 minutes of abs followed.