Exercise Doesn't Have to Make You Feel Bad

Had a great weekend and a good workout this morning. Saturday, I did an indoor bike ride of around 45 minutes. Not really a hard workout, but it was instructive. Doing the LSD (Long, Slow Distance) page left me feeling stiff in the legs and back. Not exactly the best feeling.

 Sunday was a lot more fun. I spent time mostly hanging out and playing with my daughter. We played chase (ever try to follow a little 7 year old through the trees? Not easy.) and jumped rope. The jump roping was fun, since I was able to work on double unders while I played. We did the normal "Cinderella, dressed in yella" rhyme while I did basic singles. Then, when it came time to doctor counting, I started doing double unders. I never got over 15, but I did feel a lot more comfortable doing consecutive double unders.

Today was a pretty nice day as well. This mornings workout was Tabata intervals of:

Kettlebell Swings (25#)
Sit Ups
Jump Rope (# revolutions)

I put a lot of effort into the workout, but it seemed to go by pretty quickly. I've done some Tabata interval workouts that seemed to take forever, so having one fly by was a nice change.

After the WOD, we worked on double unders a bit more, since they're the movement of the month. I've found there are a couple of tricks to double unders. One is learning wrist speed. Without the ability to move the rope, you can't jump over it. The second was how high to jump. I focused some time on each of these aspects and was again able to string together several double unders again. I'm definitely feeling better about my double unders now than I did at the beginning of the month.

Update:
The work out at Unity Martial Arts today was pretty tough on the legs. We worked on stances and kicks today. By the time I finished the workout, my legs were burning. Two workouts a day are pretty tough sometimes, even when one is a martial arts workout.

We worked on our back stances quite a bit. In addition, we worked on the transitions for our kicks. This is tough because you're standing on one leg and using that leg to push yourself forward into your next stance, all the while trying to stay low and keep your balance.Not easy at all.