Turkish Delight

Great day of workouts today utilising a very formidable yet highly effective exercise - the Turkish Get Up (TGU).

The TGU is an outstanding exercise that develops strength, flexibility and stability throughout the entire body. It takes tenacity and commitment to conquer this exercise. Doing the TGU slowly and steadily builds a solid foundation of strength that nearly "injury proofs" the body, making it ready for more demanding training. It also is great at strengthening the major muscle groups, smaller stabilizing muscles, and connective tissue.

Todays workout:

Row 500m
TGU 20/15/10

Record times and loads.

Tricia was in fine form today, although a little fatigued from a wonderful mother's day (I was to find out later on, all the mothers were a little low on energy today!?!) Still, Tricia did extremely well with a heavy 4kg dumbbell thorughout all repititions. Her rowing times were good, as we trained along to some Barry White and Dionne Warwick. Thanks for the music lessons Tricia.

The Dynamic Duo were back after an enjoyable seven days away in Sydney. Although a little nervous, they both equalled their best rowing times for all three rounds which is a tremendous feat of stamina. Well done Liz and Frank. The TGU proved much harder, but for the first time doing this exercise this is to be expected. Good to have you both back.

Ginette is looking great and her progress is really accelerating now. We did 300m sprints instead of the 500m row to really test her power. She performed extremely well on the TGU, so well that I threw in at the end 50 dips, 50 sit ups, and 50 back extensions. As I always say to everyone, the fitter you get the harder it gets, here's proof. Ginette really did a lot of hard work today.

Sid finished off the day. Again I gave her 300m sprints on the rower to increase her power, and she handled them very well with precise accuracy, doing all three within 2 seconds of each other. Her TGU's were a little wobbly at first, but after getting comfortable with the movement, she really did ten perfect ones in the last round. Sid, you get better every session.

Now that mother's day is over, its back to work for everyone. I look foward to a productive week in the Studio.