Last night, I met up with my running group for a Bridge run and Boot Camp workout.
What followed was one of the toughest workouts I’ve had in a long time…and it felt great!
In the past, my coach has included weekly hill, track, and beach workouts depending on the training season. I really enjoyed the hill workout, then the city took our hill away for construction.
Looking back, I’m kind of glad they did – this bridge and boot camp workout far exceeded any hill run I’ve ever done! I’ve heard people say that hill workouts are a waste of time and don’t help improve anything – I say they are wrong. Several years ago, I achieved a 12 minute Half Marathon PR and at the time, I was doing weekly hill workouts with my group. That’s enough proof for me!
Our new “hill” is a giant bridge that we run over and back twice for a total of a mile – this is repeated again midway through for a total of 2 miles. If you’re really into it like a few of the runners there, you can run the bridge again a third time for a total of 3 miles. (We skipped that part…whoops!)
This workout consisted of:
- Warm-up of 1/2 mile
- 1 mile bridge run – over and back x 2
After the run, we jumped right into the boot camp stations:
- Ropes
- Tire Jumps/Step Ups
- Lots of Abs/Core
- Tire Flipping
- Lunges with Weights
- Squats with Sand
- Reverse Pushups
- More Abs/Core
- REPEAT bridge AND boot camp
This was one of my favorite parts of the workout. It reminded me of something I would see on the Biggest Loser – and I was secretly glad I didn’t have Jillian yelling at me in my ear!
Each station included instructions – this one was an overhead press with a 20 pound bar.
Tire flipping madness!
Heather and I got a butt kicking – but it was a good kick and I definitely needed it. I’ll be back for this one! Thanks, Coach and Julie!
I’m about to do reverse pushups…but first, lemme take a selfie.
Cheese, I know. :)
Do you like to cross-train? Have you ever done a boot camp type workout? What were your thoughts?
