Park workout

JP recently said he wanted to start doing stair running (stair sprinting, actually), so we loaded Jenna up yesterday and headed down to Irmo Park.  I remembered there were stairs there, but when we got there it was not what I remembered.  We almost left, but decided to go anyway.  Good thing we did.

Once we set up the blanket and got some toys out for Jenna, we mapped out a plan.  There were three sets of steps that had two stairs and a bit of sidewalk to each section, followed by a set of stairs that had about 12-18 steps on them.  What we decided to do was bound the first three set of stairs and then sprint the second section.  I did two sets of these back to back, and then did box jumps on a ledge at the bottom.  JP did the same thing, but did push ups or incline push ups in between the stair bounds and sprints and box jumps.  I worked legs yesterday morning, so my legs were tired, so I did about 5 rounds of the bounds, stair sprints and box jumps, and then switched to alternating big boys with box jumps.  In all we spent about 30 minutes and had a great workout!  Jenna also got to play in the park, which she loved. 

I look forward to doing this more often!

As a side note: I realized yesterday that I am in much better shape than I was when I got pregnant.  My body may not be back to where it was then (although I am close!), but my endurance is much better.  I can remember not being able to do big boys before and yesterday I did them for a while without too much struggle.  Woohoo!

I am also excited to visit my new gym buddy, Carla, and her husband, for a run through prowler sled sprints on the hill by their house.  I have a feeling those will kick my butt in a whole new way! :):)

For reference:

Fast forward this one to about 30 seconds to see stair bounding

Box jumps (ours were not this tall)

Big Boys (go to 2 minutes and watch through 2:20 as Trish Warren does tire big boys)

Prowler sled sprints: