What's In A Name?

     Day two of joint training is in the books! Emily has done well enough to earn her gym nickname. It's a rite of passage in our dungeon. Well, I've made it a rite of passage. I gave one to Frank after we had been working out for a while. He was dubbed Frankie 10 Rep because no matter that man is supposed to be doing, he does 10 reps. It's maddening, but I've learned to roll with it. Tonight, Emily was bestowed with the illustrious name of.... Gumby. She likes it.

     Here's what Gumby and I accomplished tonight:

PUSHUPS:

Emily: (x5) 3x Tonight, she did them on her toes so there was improvement there.

Me: (x10) 3x

CHEST PULLS:

Em: Black Band (x10) 1x

       Purple Band (x10) 2x

Me: Purple Band (x10) 2x

       Green Band (x10)1x

FACE PULLS:

Em: Purple Band (x10) 3x

Me: Green Band (x10) 3x I could have and probably should have, bumped up in either the resistance or the reps on both pulls. These were honestly too easy.

V Sit:

Em: (x10) 3x She struggled with these, so they weren't technically v sits. She did a combination of leg lifts and sit-ups.

Me: (x10) 3x I struggled with these as well. I got my legs and arms up, but my arms definitely traveled more than my legs did! We both need to improve on this one.

SWISS BALL PIKE:

Em couldn't quite do these. She did try, and I give her full credit for that. She ended up doing just basic planks.

Em: 13 seconds, 18, 14, 16, 20, 25, 30, 40

She started out telling herself that she couldn't do it. I got her to buckle down and grind and she improved a lot!

Me: x5, x7, x8 This one shocked me because they had become so difficult. They're still one of my favorite things to do, but it was a smack in the face how far I had regressed.

SMALL BALL HAMMY CURLS:

(the balls we used were about 8" I believe)

Em: (x10) 3x This was another one that was a struggle for the girl, but she gritted her teeth and kept getting them one by one. We did have a good laugh while she was doing it though. Her body was getting tired, so as she was trying to pull her legs towards her, her entire torso did some weird spastic thing, lol. Priceless.

Me: (x10) 3x

SPANISH SQUATS:

Em: Black band (x10) 3x I tried this squat technique with her because she's having a hard time grasping the right form. This actually seemed to help. One of the biggest problems she has is her knees caving in. Having the band around her knees was a good way for her to understand the idea of "pushing your knees out"

Me: Green band (x10) 3x I did these with my sleeves over the KT tape. Of course, there was the god-awful grinding noises, but there was no pain, so I was happy with that.

HANGING KNEE RAISES:

Em: (x10) 3x

Me: (x10) 3x

     And that was that. I'm very pleased and proud of her improvement just in this short time. Not just in her physical ability, but her mental ability to focus and give a little more just when she thinks she's done. It's a good thing to see. Gumby may turn out to be pretty tough!