P.I.N.K. Fitness Workout #7

I started P.I.N.K. Fitness workout #7 this morning! I really wanted to stay in bed but I couldn’t let my readers down, all three of them. So let me tell you, 20 minutes of weightlifting may not seem like much but I was sweating like I had done 50 minutes of cardio. The exercises in this workout are building you up to do an Olympic style clean and jerk. I’m sure a real competitive weightlifter would laugh at me for breathing heavy and sweating with only 5 lbs. on my bar, but it was a lot of work for me. There were 9 exercises total, you do 10 reps for each exercise, and 3 rotations for the entire workout. Six of those exercises included a squat. That’s 180 squats!!! My legs started shaking halfway through. I usually don’t take a break between rotations but this morning I needed to. I did pretty good though; I limited my breaks to 2-3 minutes. Now the real clean and jerk starts with the bar on the floor and you squat to pick it up; but with P.I.N.K. Fitness, we start standing while holding the bar near the pelvis, squat down and then jump shrug up. I don’t know if that’s going to change in later workouts- - I’ve only gone as far as #9- -but since I have no desire to be a competitive weightlifter, the P.I.N.K. Fitness way works for me. I just hope I have the strength the get up tomorrow for the Urban Rebounder.