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Last week, to close out my birthday month, I treated a group of friends to an aerial silks class with Heather. They were good sports about it, and it was a lot of fun to introduce them to aerial acrobatics. Maureen put it best: "The things I do for you. I can't believe you got me to wear spandex and do the splits." That's right! It's my birthday and I'll aerial if I want to!
Catchup. Buffin-time. Big weights.
The theme of this morning's training session with Buffin was time, time and swearing. He did the timing, I did the swearing. He timed me during a kettlebell circuit of one armed squat presses, swings. Then a circuit of pushups, thenone-armed transfer swings, and one-armed squat transfers. And then he had the nerve to bring out a sandbag, so I did all sorts of side lunges and squats with the sandbag, then a bunch of core exercises, finished off with seated rows. I swear there will come a day when I am so tired, I fall asleep before I even leave the building.
Climb to the top, negative pullup in a straddle on the way down.BAM.
Inversions are haaaaaaard. I can't wait for the day when I can get my butt over my head without someone having to be on "booty duty."
Back to the gym for spin class. Not sure I like going to the gym twice in one day. It's a lot of schlepping. It certainly doesn't agree with my preferred core values of gluttony and sloth, but it does agree with my core value of awesomeness. Class was hard, afterwards my shirt was wet like I'd gone swimming in it.
Midday aerial silks class. It was very exciting for two reasons. 1) Boula, a Russian gymnast was in class, and it is always fun to see him do exciting man silk thing. 2) Stephanie, aka Flipper Baby, my aerial silks idol, took class! Stephanie is part of an avant garde performance troupe, where she blew my mind by performing the cleanest silks routine ever, while wearing fins, snorkel and mask. She's also married to this extremely attractive man who plays the guitar. All the men I love are married to very talented aerialists. Do hear that sound? Oh, that's just my heart shattering all over the floor. No big deal.
Anyway, I am working on being able to do an inverted straddle (see photo for demonstration), but it is very hard to keep my booty pointed towards the ceiling, and not let it drop to the floor. Lady Bulldozer noticed something about the way my legs do the work when my butt should be doing more of it, so she and I hung out with our bums against the wall while I practiced using my butt muscles to keep my butt upright. It was very technical, and yet silly. Silkies have no boundaries when it comes to touching other people's body parts to demonstrate which muscles should do the heavy lifting.
p.s. For a walk down memory lane, here are the two posts I wrote about Flipper Baby and the sad little torch I carry for her husband. http://socialworkout.com/stream/show/98593
http://socialworkout.com/stream/show/98596
(Image: http://marisa-u.blogspot.com/)
Join von Hottie for Chapter 19 of her journey to Aerial Silks and redefine "social climbing." In Chapter 19, we continue to master the art of getting our butts over our heads (inversions), increase our flexibility, climb higher and stay in the air longer.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, but you have to train the body to make it happen. Every day is an exercise in success, so slip on your ruby slippers, put on your game face and follow me down The Silk Road.
*I know personal training may be cost-prohibitive to some. Just do the best you can. Maybe Jillian Michaels DVD is your personal trainer. Maybe your BFF is your trainer. You decide .
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