Dry Land Training

I rarely find time any more to get those weekend workouts any more. I used to be really good at fitting in something, even before we got the TRX. Today my son, 11 year old the hockey crazy boy, asked me if I wanted to do some off ice training - dry land training. Fun! We convinced hubby to join us too!

We grabbed the TRX and exercise ball and went outside. Our side yard has some beautiful, large trees - perfect for hooking the TRX into and it provides some well needed shade on this wonderful summer day.  We also dug out the GymBoss to help us along. We started simple, 30 seconds of work and 30 seconds of rest. Nice easy exercises, 2 mins of work - we did this group twice:

1. Single leg reverse lunge on TRX
2. Single leg reverse lunge on TRX - other leg
3. Tricep dips on ball
4. Skater lunges (great for those hockey player fast starts)

Then once my son was done, hubby and I did another set (40 seconds work, 20 seconds rest):
1. sit ups with ball over head
2. low rows on the TRX
3. Delt/Lat 'Y' exercises on TRX
4. Plank/push ups

Here's a video of the skater starts, however we did them more with the leg shooting out and back like a skater rather than tucking it under as this fella is doing - his looks more like a curtsy.

I also threw in some oblique exercise ('star') on the TRX and some good, old fashion Bootstraps! 

So, I'm guessing there was maybe 20 mins of actual work there, but the good news is that it got me excited to start working out at home again. This is important as the summer months are here and I'm going to miss some lunch hour workouts due to being the 'mom's taxi' for kids getting to and from summer camps (which notoriously have horrible hours).

So, tomorrow there will be no Core Essentials in my future - lets see if I can throw in some home workout. I think I'll actually dust off some of the old workouts I've posted here.

Later!