Today was my first day back to the gym post-marathon. I opted for a short, light upper body and core workout. It was about 30 minutes total, including socializing!
First, I warmed up on the stationary bike for about 5 or 6 minutes. Really, it was more a social 5 or 6 minutes. Linda was on the bike next to me and Kelly was on the elliptical near Linda. Kelly is in our running group and we haven't seen her for a while. Linda knew Kelly was expecting, but I didn't. So, it was a little bit of a shock to look over and see a cute little baby bump!
After our little warm up, Linda and I headed over to the dumbbells for our upper body workout. We did two sets of an incline dumbbell chest press (15 reps w/ two 15 lb dumbbells), superset with dumbbell rows (15 reps each side w/ 15 lb dumbbell). Then we did two sets of front and lateral raises (20 reps w/ two 7.5 lb dumbbells) superset with dips off the bench (15 reps).
Then we moved over to the ab section the gym. We did a little circuit of back extension (15 reps), forearm plank on the fitness ball (1 minute), crunches using the fitness ball (15 reps), and bicycle crunches (30 reps). We did this circuit twice.
It was a short, easy workout, but I usually take it pretty easy the week following a marathon. I just wanted to get in there and feel like I was doing a little something. Mission accomplished! Tomorrow will be my first run post-marathon. I am planning on 6-8 easy miles.
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