During the holiday break, M&I decided to crush a workout utilizing my our new speed ladder. M&I will be trying out for Texas' elite club teams out of Austin, Showdown (women's) and Doublewide (Men's). Many people try out for these teams, so we want to be in our best shape to keep up with the talent that is in this HUGE state!

Maybe I can get M to do some speed ladder lessons via video! In the meantime, check out some of our video as proof we are working our butts off:

We also did one of Melissa Witmer's programs from Twelve Weeks to Game Time. M&I plan to stick to this as best we can beginning in February, right before our tryouts begin.

Twelve Weeks to Game Time is a three month program designed for ultimate players (or any sport, really) to get in their best athletic shape before tryouts. The twelve weeks are broken down into conditioning, strength, and performance.


We picked one of the conditioning workouts that combines a nice warm-up, plyometrics, speed and quickness, and endurance conditioning. WHEW! It kicks your butt and let's just say my lower half was screaming the next day.



                                Wish us the best on our journey to elite club ultimate!

Another week has passed and more workouts have been logged. However, my workouts have been a little light compared to week's past due to a hip injury.

So here is the story: every night this past week, there has been pick up ultimate frisbee at Trinity University. The pick up game has ranged from newer players to club veterans, so the game is always a bit interesting. Now, most people, when playing pick up, don't go "as hard" as they might when playing in a tournament or scrimmage.

Well, I am just not one of those people.

Turf sucks.

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One of the newer players saw me streaking toward the end zone with no one covering me for 15 yards and put up his best backhand throw. I was running the disk down thinking, "Yes, this is my glory moment - layout catch for a score!" This disk flies over my head and I start to layout to grab it while it was still in the air.

Suddenly, my body remembers that I have weak on a workout hiatus for several months. My lower back and legs are much weaker than when I am in shape for a frisbee season. My right knee thuds to the ground and my left hip is being ripped open by the turf I was playing on.

Yeah, I didn't catch it.

Silver lining does follow! I was able to really focus on my abs and glutes this week in my NTC workout. I tried Gabby Douglas' lower body workout - a simple 15 minute workout that focused a lot on your lower core muscles, your hip flexors, and inner groin muscles. This was perfect to avoid getting another hip scar like nasty little one above.



M&I will be trying out of my new Christmas presents this weekend: a speed training ladder! Workout post will definitely come from that.

"The only bad workout is the one you didn't do"

 - Someone Smart

I have been MIA this week and got behind with posts since my Mom and Grandma were here late last week all the way to Monday (posts to come)! It was such a wonderful trip and I miss them like crazy, but I get to see my Grandma for Christmas.

Anyway, as promised I did my workout for Fitness Fridays. I even learned how to create overlays on PicMonkey thanks to the blogger community! What do you think of my Fitness Fridays logo? The photo is courtesy of Nike Training Club.

Ok, on to my workout. I did the Wednesday  Thursday set that was focused on cardio. I almost skipped this one since I get a lot of cardio during my weekly frisbee-ing with Trinity and SAUltimate.  However, I remembered that Nike Training Club knows how to kick someone's butt, no matter what the focus is. I took a look at the workout, saw it was 45 minutes (cursed the app for giving me a hardcore workout that long), and clicked begin.

The one part of the workout that particularly stuck out to me was the Froggers. Sweet baby Jesus, NTC really liked these. Thanks to the 1000 sets it had us do, my inner thighs are dying today. Want to know what a Frogger is? Check out the vid below:



See? However, the app decided to take it a step further and forgo the "alternating" part. Yikes!

If you want to sculpt your booty and hip flexors, try doing three sets of these babies for 1 minute. Ready? Go!

Two Fridays ago, I mentioned that I was teetering with the idea of doing Friday Favorites or Fitness Fridays. The first attempt was Friday Favorites and I had fun doing that post, but I am too competitive for that. I decided to try out Fitness Fridays.

Being that my mom came in town yesterday, I definitely didn't do this workout today buttt the point is I WORKED OUT! I have been on a three month hiatus since we moved.

I actually really enjoy working out but once I lose a routine, I really struggle with getting on a new one. The first one is the hardest. So because I committed myself to Fitness Fridays, I decided to get my butt in gear!

We have a gym in our apartment complex, so I got dressed and marched down there. I enter the code and BAM! denied. What the freak?!

So, I accepted the rejection and headed upstairs to remember the NTC app. Better known as Nike Training Club!

Since it has been awhile and have gained some unwanted weight, I decided to go with the beginner "Lean" workout plan. This puts together a set of workouts over a 4 week course to get you back in shape at your pace. You can set goals, set reminders, and update the app of when your next workout will be. Not to mention, I can include my own music to jam out to: Taylor's 1989, of course. (It's a great choice, btw)

That is just a screen shot of some of my "activities" as part of the workout.

The best part about this app? It is FREE! Absolutely free. Nike believes in the power of women and it's so cool that they offer this.

Are there other bloggers out there that want to take the challenge and do Fitness Fridays with me?