If you check out the SNL character Mary Katherine Gallagher on Wiki-pedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Katherine_Gallagher), you will get the gist of the exercise named after this (in)famous woman - I quote: "Ultimately, she would lose control of herself and end up destroying something. She would then jump up, extend her hands in the air, and proclaim herself a "Superstar!"." It is that last sentence I would like to draw your attention to - the only difference is that when we land, it is in the lunge position, and we just keep jumping up and down landing in a lunge position, hands in the air fingers in a peace sign, sometimes gasping 'Superstar!'. They're BAAAAA-AAAAACK! The name of our trainer who is the expert in Mary Katherine's is Laura, but I no longer call her that. Her name IS Mary Katherine :)
This morning I was about a quart low. I had a blood test/physical scheduled for 11am, which meant no food from midnight until the blood was drawn. I walked into the doctor's office with three protein bars in my purse, one of which didn't make it out alive. (By the way, both the Strawberry Shortcake AND the Blueberry Crumble Pure Protein bars ROCK!) As soon as the blood was drawn, I began to eat. I would take a few bites in between 'stations' - blood, ekg, etc. My doctor asked what I was doing for fun (he likes to have a 'conversation', and get the big picture - asks about family, exercise, outside work activities, etc!). So I told him about TrainStrong. He laughed, and said GOOD! I told him I'm usually eating my third meal at noon, so pardon the chewing. Looking forward to the blood test results - I'll keep you posted!
Muscles are definitely sore, but not quite as debilitating as last time - I can make it upstairs to brush my teeth in the morning :). It does get better! But they want to keep you out of your comfort zone, and do everything they can to make sure you do, no matter what. So I still have a little bit of a waddle.
Tomorrow we are on our own! It will be a run, then a 'personal mission', one of 15 options in the training book that we can do - the only trick is that you can't repeat any of them, so depending on how I feel, I opt for a harder one so I can save the easy ones for when I'm not feeling so (train) strong:)
More later!
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Gotta LOVE those Mary Katherine's!
You go girls!!!!....i mean ladies!
Okay, it's time that I made an appearance on this site! You guys are doing great! I'm so impressed with both of you!!! Jane, you always have a smile on your face and an evil chuckle when you know what's coming next! Mitzi, you looked like a pro on the plyos today - very impressive! (do you want to lead that one next month????)
Keep it up!!! See you Monday for more fun!
Hey Ladies! Where are our "After" pics? Must we wait another Train Strong Session? i've loved reading this. Y'all are awesome.
Hey Ladies,
Great call on the personal missions, we try not to let that one out to the public...
I'd tip my cap to both of you for the fantastic work on the circuit today (if I wore one). Jane you were cruising on the basketball shuffles and Mitzi wasn't kidding when she said her upper body was strong! Great job ladies!
See you tomorrow.
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