Hyper-Lifting ?!?!?!

When Xavy asked me how I was feeling this morning, my answer was very simple. "Like Roadkill!"  Yup, that is as accurate as I think I will be able to get without grunting and cursing.

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I am not exactly sure how it came up or how it all started.  Perhaps I am too distracted from the pain to recall all of the events of the last 18 hours.  I had to revisit my facebook status' from last night just to jog my memory.  The last one read,  "Apparently we were only on vacation in Phase 2, stopped to get a postcard and non-stop flight straight through to Phase 11. Warning: When Xavy says "we have to do this next one outside" and grabs his keys, RUN!!!!". I vaguely remember  joking with Xavy and telling him that I think I could keep up with him during his competition prep workouts. Oh' that can't have been a good move on my part.  I think I should finish this after the Aleve kicks in.

Ahhh... It is all starting to come back to me.

Now that I think of it, I think the Warrior Dash would have been a pretty nice warm-up for last nights training session. Fun? Yes.  Intense? Oh that does not even begin to describe it.   We did however at least take a nice little field trip.  I got to window shop at some of the stores in the shopping strip on one of my many trips past during walking lunges. The coolest part was training along side of Xavy.  Not only was I keeping up (Go me!), I got to see for myself what makes Xavy so damn awesome.  It was kinda like  OOO'ing and AHH'ing at Kelly's CrossFit Photos.  It is kinda satisfying watching them sweat isn't it? 

My Phase 2 was called Hypertrophy Training.  (Don't ask, just wiki it for yourself.)  My next Phase is or would have been Power Lifting.   Last night,  Xavy has decided to call this new made up phase, Hyper Lifting.  lol.  I am pretty sure he would have a more technical explanation but what it translates to is as follows:

Hyper-Lifting: The Phase of Personal Training where you lift a lot of really really heavy stuff a bunch of times  focusing on specific muscle groups rather then all over. Then repeat.  Then repeat again. Then go ahead and take 2 off of the last set of reps so we can pretend you are getting a break and then do it again.  If you are either still breathing or have not vomited on your shoes, proceed to do yet another set.

All in all, I had so much fun.  I really enjoyed training and seeing just how far I can go.  I didn't like having to wake up at 6a.m. for cardio but apparently that is part of the phase too.   I can not tell you much easier this is having such a great support system and having trainers that believe you can do anything that you set your mind to.  Let me also remind you that this may or may not be the path you are taking in your training and that is perfectly fine.  This is the kind of training that I respond to and that I enjoy.  Please don't let my inner and soon to be outer beast scare you. 


And I am going to do it all over again tonight!