Yesterday was a great, but tough, workout! We started with lunges across the gym (about the length of a basketball court, I guess) up and back a couple of times. Then we moved onto "Charlie Chaplains" which is spreading your feet wide with toes pointing out and taking little steps on the balls of your feet. Man, is that hard!
We also put a band on our ankles and did lunges up and down the gym. At one point we have a bar behind our backs to help with the right form. If you've seen a kid walk with his shorts around his ankles making a run for the potty, you've seen the form!
After that, we moved onto the BOSU ball. We stood on the balls of our feet and did calf raises, then moved onto balancing on one leg. Talk about burn!
We also did bridges on the BOSU. The first few seconds aren't bad, anyway. We also reversed this and had our feet on the ball and arms on the floor.
We also did "tickers" where you have one leg on the middle of the BOSU and lunge with the other leg at the "hour" on the clock, so basically 12 times around and then we went backwards. That was interesting.
I've always (well recently, anyway) wondered what BOSU stands for and here is the story from it's inventor:
"It was a Friday night in 1999. The Knicks had just lost game seven of the eastern conference finals and I had taken another nasty spill jumping on my stability balls.
As I lay in bed contemplating how I could continue to Bounce On Something Unstable and thus continue to feel the amazing results in my body - like no more back pain and no more pain in my feet first thing out of bed, I had an Ah-Ha moment and an Idea was born."
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