Gymnastics, Gymnastics, and More Gymnastics!

It's Tueday again! and you know what that means, people! 

Gymnastics time! 

Just like old times, let me tell you what i wore today - a dark blue leo with a light blue, starry streak, black leggings, white t-shirt with blue design, and a bunch of stickers in my hair. 

On the way to class, i kept falling asleep, and i thought, "i wasn't here last week, will it be awkward this day?" 

anyway, we started out as usual, running. 

i was winded to say the least! I mean, i DID just take the last week off, not to mention, i literally spent 8 days doing little more than lie in bed and surf the internet! 

i won't delve too deep into what we did.

after running and stretching, we did the one thing that i absolutely do NOT ever want to do - box jumps.

we set up a row of boxes both tall and short and we hop on them, off them, over them, with one foot, squatting, leaping, running, 

and of course, just my luck, i am exhausted, i twist my ankle one time, and face plant another…

our free time, as a result, shortened to only twenty-some minutes today, which is disappointing since i was actually feeling quite motivated, but anyway, i found my lovely friend and we head off to floor, and then bars, in which the teacher tries to get us to do glide swings, but my hands ache, you see! 

plus, it's boring.

i go off onto the other bar which is less splintery, work on pullover, back hip circle, squat on, jump to high bar connection, and i am applauded by the dude coach (whom i adore very much, strangely) 

later, i separate from the bars group and move to the track, setting up a crash mat in the foam pit, and i work on my aerials and my front tucks. 

i started with aerials, just flinging them without preparation.

i do need to work on those, since they're getting a bit rusty. my head is a bit too close to the ground for comfort, but at no point am i tempted to put my hands down, although i get the feeling that i am doing something or another wrong, in the way my body twists, but..

i'll burn that bridge when i come to it.

then, i set for a front tuck (meaning, do a straight jump) and start working on those instead.

quite a few are successful, a handful landed me on my butt or overspan me into my face, 

but while most landed me nicely on my feet, one thing i found is my massive jump before doing the actual flip.

maybe it's a habit from using springboards, i don't really know.

i also don't know if it is accepted in gymnastics, although when i took parkour lessons, they told me not to do that…

anyway, after that, we had to do conditioning, which was…

- twenty jumping jacks 

- twenty military jumping jacks (in a squat)

- plank to push up position x10

- bicycles (for core strength)

- inverted push ups x10

- wide warm push ups x10

- normal push ups x10

- triangle hand push ups x10

- superman rocking x20

- v-sit to tuck and straddle x15 

and then we stretched (i just lay there facedown on the ground)

and high five the coaches, and then off we go! 

Psssst. i'll do a post on Friday instead of Saturday this one. Maybe there'll also be one on Sunday. 

I told my mom today that i don't intend to play my new game until Friday.

she said, "why?"

i answered, "since i don't want to feel obligated to do anything else, feel guilty, or be interuppted. I'll wait until Friday, and Saturday… so that way, i can just curl up in bed and play for 12 hours straight."

…she gave me the evil eye…

but that aside, this is the reason there'll be no post on Saturday. 

for Friday i'll talk about something random, and on Sunday, i'll give a quick review of the game ;)

how's that?

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~Re~