Workout 4 - Cardio & Core Work/Pilates

Today's workout was a little bit of a mishmash of cardio stuff and some additional core work and some Pilates stuff.

I did a nice 5 minute warm up on the treadmill, followed by just a few high knees, butt kicks, and walking lunges.

Then, I hit the treadmill again for about 20 minutes at a higher speed to get my heart rate into the optimal range for cardiovascular health (my range is 120-145 bpm).  At first just the speed wasn't doing it, but, after we added a bit of an incline, we got my heart rate up a little bit higher.

After that we did a little bit of core work again...

First I did Supermans again, but, I didn't hold them for long - I did repetitions instead.

Then I did some bridges.  It was kind of amusing - he told me "okay now I'm going to have you do some bridges..." and, having taken tumbling as a kid, to me, bridges means these:

THANKFULLY, that's totally NOT what he meant.  He meant these:

Which I can TOTALLY handle!  So I did a few sets of those.

Then he had me do what is called the Pilates Roll Up.  Here's a nice video that shows you how it goes:
http://youtu.be/I1pWz27ln-U

It's a little bit hard yet for me to get UP to the sitting position, so, I was doing that part a little bit faster than this lady in the video, but, it can only get better from here!

Tomorrow is more core work along with lower body stuff!