Fortunately (unfortunately?) for me Mike comes up with all forms of fresh hell using kettlebells, dumbbells and my own body weight. This past Monday was all manner of torture and we didn’t use one single machine. Aside from my own war machine of a body.

The evening started off familiar enough. Goblet squats. He thinks that I am not onto his scheming but I see that the weights keep getting heavier and heavier. The next item used all that is me and a step (like the kind you would use in step aerobics). I stood on the step side-ways (when you think of step aerobics you are stepping on what I would call the wide version. I was on the narrow version) and I was instructed to jump down, feet wide, straddling the step, tap my butt to the step and jump

Transitioned to some shoulder work with Arnold presses that where sitting (glorious, glorious sitting) and two other things I don’t have technical names for. The other two exercises look deceivingly simple. I was give 3 lb. dumbbells and then told to raise my arms to a T and then bring my arms forward and touch the weights together (fat end to fat end if that makes sense) and then reverse it. From together, to a T, and down. The other one was arms are down bring them over head tap weights together twice (fat end to fat end) and then back down. Yea well 3 lbs. can get mighty heavy after a very short while. The upside is I could see some kick ass new definition in my shoulders!!

There was more of the typical things I hate, ball passes, V-up’s and some that things that I hate less.
I like to work out like this. It kills me in a good way. I like to not have to wait on a machine or ask if I can work in. I feel intimidated asking a dude who can bench a Buick if he minds if I work into rotation with my 10 lb. weight. Plus, there is really limited excuses to not work out when traveling or such. Get to work!
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