I'm officially launching group classes at the gym, beginning the week of Sept.13th. I'll be offering 45min classes Mon-Fri 12:10-12:55pm, and Saturdays 10-10:45am. I've got a variety of classes - ranging from the women's-only, to kettlebells, bootcamp and a core class. I'm also bringing in a yoga instructor on Friday nights from 7:45-8:30 for an 8 week session. The classes will be low-key, informal, and non-intimidating. No one's gonna light candles or expect you to chant or anything like that...it's a stretching class, plain and simple! I'm hoping to get most of our not-so-stretchy guys to join and of course, the class is also open to stretchy people, members and non-members alike. Just don't expect perfect silence and a whole lotta 'om'-ing going on. Just so you know.
My strongwoman crew is all back to regular training and deciding where to go from here. Tina and Angie will be focusing solely on their powerlifting and they're both off to a fantastic start. Last Saturday Angie deadlifted 85kgs for a whopping 20 reps! Amazing stuff.
Meredith and Joyce have started preparing for another strongwoman competition. They both did very well in Kingston and I'm anxious to see where their training takes them. Warren made some lighter atlas stones for us to start practicing with and I can tell that Joyce and Meredith can't wait to get their hands on them!
Erin had her audition with the stunt company and fitness-wise, it went really well. All the hard work she's put in over the last 3 months allowed her to keep up and stay strong throughout the process. With a little more work on her martial arts skills, I'm sure she's got this one in the bag.
As for moi, I am going to attempt to train for both PL and strongwoman. I know, I know, it's hard to train for two things and be great at both, bla, bla, bla. I've already had this conversation with myself. But I'm going to give it a shot anyway! I'm heading into my 7th year of powerlifting and I still love it BUT, I also really loved doing strongman. So, it's a PL/Strongman hybrid program for me and we'll see what happens.
In case you also follow Warren's blog, don't expect too much activity there in the next two weeks - he's working like a dog these days. Oh and, speaking of dogs, Otto decided to eat the trim off the doorway yesterday and subsequently the nails that were in it so, it was off to the vet for us today! Cause I just don't have enough stuff going on......;)
I feel like I need some sort of catchy sign-off.....Warren uses 'Rock On'......not that I'm envious.....but, suggestions?
Kacey
