That’s what it felt like yesterday during my session with the personal trainer. Instead of our normal work with the weights and the medicine balls, she leads me to the gym’s yoga studio. Needless to say, I was intrigued with what was to follow.
I walked in to find all manner of exercise equipment laid out for me – bosu balls, dumbbells, barbells, steps. There was no question about it. We were doing circuits. And probably a lot of them.
And circuits we did! I’ll try not to be exhaustive in listing all the exercises we did but some of the more prominent ones included barbell curls on the bosu ball, burpees with push-ups, dumbbell military presses, barbell squats and push-up circuits. Oh yeah, and there was running involved between each set just to “keep the heartrate up” as my trainer likes to remind me regularly. Like the rest of the workout isn’t accomplishing that already!
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