Whopping awesome circuit

Today was the last day of the session for my pilates studio and I definitely ended it with a bang.  Went to the recharge equipment circuit (which I had always loved but couldn't fit into the schedule regularly this session). And boy did we circuit and workit.

There was some single leg jump board which I found incredibly hard today for my right leg - it is so wimpy compared to my left. There was also some really lovely step work LOL as Jana put it - welcome back to the 80s - thankfully that was just in 1 minute intervals.

Hamstrings were definitely worked as well on one station.  We did with 1 foot on the chair's foot bar then raising and lowering our hip escalators.  I always find these one leg hip escalators so hard and especially with the foot doing the work in an elevated position like that.  But one definitely knows their hamstrings have gotten to work when doing those.

Of course I am sitting here and writing this out after getting home from the class and still feeling that great feeling post workout.  Wishing I was able to fit the circuit into my regular schedule this coming session.  Might need to make some changes to my schedule to make it happen.  And of course to counteract my wonderful work just a little bit I am also sitting here eating a bacon and tomato sandwich (only one slice of whole wheat bread though) and all I can say is it was absolutely scrumptious.  The great thing is that while bacon may not be the best thing in the world for a person I can definitely say that I can savour a few slices and be satisfied now - back not so very long ago I would have wanted to eat a whole package of the stuff.

Pilates after a 3 week break

Oh it felt so great to get back to it and working out.  Last week I just skipped out on my classes - vacation mode sunk a little too far into the brain and didn't want to shake out enough even for good health choices.  Stayed up way too late most nights and that was the real killer for the classes last week.

But today was awesome.  We did some work with thera bands on the barre and boy I can tell you that my abs got great work today.  It really was a pretty awesome workout all around. We did some modified roll downs with that thera band on the bar and it is a great reminder of just how much work a roll down can be for your abs if you work it and don't slack it off.

I also really liked the standing leg work - well "liked" might not be the word my poor glutes would choose though.  That was definitely some burn on that work.  There was also some good stretching after that with the magic circle - I always like a good stretch after working those butt muscles.

Last but not least we also did this deceptively easy looking one  that is basically a kneeling side bend.  Boy did my obliques need to work.  But I did discover that my one side felt like it worked way better than the other side.  Maybe that is the side that is weaker and so it just felt like more work.  My bigger concern is that possibly the other side wasn't really firing properly and the first side was doing all the work for it.  Might have to ask one of the instructors their opinion on that next time I am there.