Coach Pain's Regime

Now let's get to the nitty and gritty of it all. I fast forwarded through some initial practices since they consisted of nothing but the filling out of legalese such as USARS paperwork, league dues, consent forms, medical liability waivers, and any official league paperwork.   Blogging about those will bore you to tears so let's move on along, shall we?

Let's discuss one of my favorite practices which I dubbed as Coach Pain's Regime.  That was a hard work-out!   At the end of that practice, my legs were like jello and muscles in my quads/calves/gluteus screamed each time I took a step.

During the Coach Pain's regime, we started off with the dynamic stretches to warm up those muscles.   After the stretches, off to run we went.  Ran around the track twice.

Coach Pain divided us all into two groups.  Group 1 and Group 2 lined up along each other on the track, he would give us drills.  Keep in mind, the drills were performed OFF skates during this practice.

Anyway,  ladies first in the line for Group 1 and Group 2 would do the assigned drill halfway around the track to the ending point.  Once they arrived to the ending point, second in line then would do the drill.  It continued until the last in the lines.  It was similar to the relay race.

All drills involved legs.  All leg work, folks.  They were brutal, especially if you haven't exercised in a long time.  Lunge walks, leap frogs, cross hops (hopping while crossing your legs), more lunge walks, some sort of jumping leg drill, side skeddales (dunno the right term), and again, more lunge walks.  I am sure there were more leg drill terms but bloody hell...at that point, it became pain, pain, and more pain.

When the Coach Pain's regime of leg torture started, Group 1 and Group 2 would smack-talk and raced each other. However, as more drills continued, it turned into the encouraging words, high-fives, and motivating shouts among all ladies regardless of what group we were in.   We were into this together and we came together as a team during this practice.   It was REALLY awesome to see!

As the drills ended, most of our legs were hurting and shaking.  Cool-down/stretching period was a very much welcome reprieve!

The walk to my van after the work-out was ahem interesting....I came close to crawling but that would creep people out so I decided not to.

Arrived home and took a nice hot espsom salt bath.  It was quite a hard but excellent work-out!  Coach Pain had lived up to his name.....