Week 2, Day 3: Riding the Pain

I realized this morning that I forgot to blog after Wednesday's class. This is probably due to two reasons:

--the shock from someone walking on my stomach
--the fatigue from my personal training session with Melanie immediately following the Tabata class

On Tuesday, Melanie had joked that she liked to line people up sometimes and walk across their abs. So on Wednesday that's what she did.

There on the floor, seven of us lined up like ties on railroad track, Mel told us to tighten our abs. I was smack in the middle of the track and when she got to me, moving so quickly across us, I must have let go of the 'tightening' because Mel catapulted off of me, touching Jamie quickly and landing on the floor.

She skipped Laura completely at the end. But so she wouldn't feel left out, Mel returned to step on Laura before breaking out in laughter.

I hadn't realized that I un-tightened but I'm fairly sure that it was from the shock of feeling a sneaker on my stomach, and the weight of a person in that sneakers. Yikes! I think my ribs are broken!

Follow that up with a personal training session with Melania, focusing on legs, and I was knocked out. Literally. I had to lie down with my legs up at one point so I wouldn't faint. Melanie and I agree that it was due to not eating enough before class. That, oh, and the fact that I haven't ever worked my body this hard in my life.

So today my legs, even two days later, felt like lead during Tabata. But as tired as I am, I do feel stronger and leaner already and, maybe in a few weeks, ready to have someone walk across my stomach again.