Sunday, March 5, 2017

Basement with Nick: AthleanX and Jamie Lee Curtis

Nick discovered this dude on YouTube and thought we should try this ab workout.  The guy's name is Jeff, I think.  He looks like a Jeff, anyway.  He has no appreciable bodyfat and an aversion to shirts.

Although, to be honest,  if I had an upper body like that, I would arrange my life so that I would NEVER have to wear a shirt.   I would change jobs and miss family weddings.

He's promising us a 7-minute ab workout.

If it's that short, you KNOW it's going to suck for pretty much the whole 7 minutes.

60s each of
-Figure eights (laying on your back, drawing 8s - or infinity signs - in the air with your legs pointed out)
-Legs straight winshield wipers
-Twisting pistons

Rest 30s .  I feel like it should be more.

-30s Starfish crunch - I could not do these well

Then 60 s each of:
-Tuck planks
-Upper circle crunches
-Upper circle crunches rotating the other way


Then we did two rounds of this workout out of Crystal's exercise book.  This page is labelled "Legs and Booty."  

I believe it's important to work my legs AND my booty.  Let's do this:

30 frog jumps
40 alternating side lunges
24 squats with side lift
40 plank jacks
30 half burpees (also known as squat thrusts)
30 glute bridges (these made me think of Jamie Lee Curtis for some reason... oh yeah, here's why. You should probably watch the whole thing.)

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