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It started with some jump rope. No big deal, though I could feel my calves working, unused to this strange exercise I haven’t done since grade school.

Then we went in the garage and Geena handed me a 25-lb kettle ball and have me do some lunges, squats, curls, rows, etc. The lunges, squats and variations of each had my quads feeling funny already. The most weight I normaly use with a lunge is a 10-lb medicine ball and usually I just do them without any weight. And I only do about 10 on each side and I’m done. I know, I need to work on this.

Then the real workout started. Geena called it “HIIT” or “High Intensity Interval Training.” I was stressing because my legs were feeling a bit like Jell-O already. She explained the list of exercises I was going to do, for 30 seconds at a time with a 15-second rest in between. There were a lot of lunges, squats and variations thereof. I wondered how long I’d last. The list of exercises consisted of maybe 10 different exercises, some repeated, so probably 15 total in a row.

I can’t remember them all but it was rough. At one point I was doing jumping lunges, switching legs as I jumped in the air, and I was in slow motion and wobbling on each landing. I think Jason was worried about me. The only thing that kept me going was knowing it was only 30 seconds.

The 15-second rests went by so fast. I barely had time to wipe my sweaty face off with my shirt and get in position for the next exercise. Geena was such a good trainer! Encouraging and motivating me and counting down the seconds. She took me on a wobbly walk afterward to cool my legs down. I was slurring my words a bit, it was that bad!

I learned a bunch of new body-weight exercises to do that I can use now. I probably won’t be able to walk right for a week, no joke. But it showed me that I really have neglected some of my muscles and need to work on my explosiveness. My core is very strong, but my butt, legs, arms and shoulders need work.

It is a great feeling to workout up to and through muscle failure. It will be hard to keep doing it without Geena here but Jason says he’ll help. I’ve now been reminded of how rewarding it is, and it’s something different to spice up the monotony of running every day.

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