Incredible Leg Day with Mr. Boxer
Yesterday, I had the best leg workout ever:
6 x (10-15) barbell squats, pyramid scheme with varying foot positions
6 x (10-15) standing leg curls superset with single leg pistol squats (6-10 reps)
4 x 10 single leg back bridges superset with 4 minute bouts of continuous jump roping.
Anyway, the workout doesn’t sound like much but it’s the most I’ve done for my legs in a long while. So I’m in the group fitness room and I pull out my jump rope. There’s this ‘boxer’ guy in the corner skipping rope conservatively in the corner with his friend. He’s decked out with ankle weights, a beanie, and a thick sweater that says something something ‘Boxing Club’. I do my back bridges and then proceed to skip rope. As I start to speed up my cadence, this guy stares at me through the mirror and starts speeding his up. And before you know it, he’s doing all this funky ‘ROCKY’ stuff: twisting, going side to side, edging forward, going on a single leg, etc. Because I have to go at least four minutes, I continue after this guy stops. He takes it like I’m competing with him so we end up going back and forth, like we’re having a see-who-could-go-the-longest-and-hardest’ contest. On my last set I went about 6 minutes. I was dead tired because it was at a high cadence and the guy just wouldn’t stop! He finally fatigued at about the 4 minute mark and I had to go at least a couple of minutes longer to make a statement. Yes ladies and gentlemen,…testosterone at its worst! It’s funny because not one word was said between us, but we were definitely communicating. I’ve got to learn how to do all that fancy stuff; all I could do was go on one foot, skip side to side, and alternate legs like I’m running. My little competition with Mr. Boxer helped me to push myself and leave it all on the gym floor. I gotta hand it to the guy because he had ankle weights and his ‘fast’ was significantly faster than mine. But my love handles count as weights,…don’t they? The bottom line is that my legs were DONE!!
I topped off my workout with an easy 1000 in the pool and 15 minutes in the jacuzzi. Good times. Can’t wait till I do chest and back on Wednesday.
