Flexibility

The virtual gym yesterday was a flexibility workout.
I strapped on the heart rate monitor and it said 48 which is very low even for me but I suppose all the skipping and running are improving my heart strength still.

Once the workout began, it showed the ideal heart rate on the screen and I leapt about like a mad thing ,trying to get my heart rate to show the same.

Most of the time, I couldn't get the rate up high enough however hard or madly I moved.
The heart rate section isn't very long on workouts where cardio is not the main focus ,so after about 5 minutes, I unstrapped it and strapped my ankle weights on for the core part of the hour.

I did some corkscrews using the weights and they are much more effective when weighted.
Bicycles are hard to do with weights on too.
There were the usual balance ball crunches which are always a good burn.

Plank twists were actually quite hard work today. I took off the ankle weights from this point on , no point doing damage to myself by being silly.
She always announces how many reps should be done and it is almost always 3 each side for this move but then she (remember she is a 3D virtual person) continues to do about 20 and I find myself trying to keep up and failing .
Well of course it isn't really a fail as I easily manage 3 each side and sometimes up to 6 but because the virtual trainer is still going strong, it feels like I should be ,too.

Flexibility is still improving I think. At the end of the workout, there is always Quad stretching and Hamstring stretching and now, I have to really have my feet a long way apart before the hamstring stretches actually 'stretch' anything.