I saw them working the D12 in their garage a couple times a week and foolishly thought this was a good idea and set out to try it in my own garage.
12 jumping jacks, 12 burpees, 12 lunges and so on. 11 jumping jacks, 11 burpees, 11 lunges, and so on.
This was me by the time I was down to round 8.
I stubbornly kept going and finished the Dirty Dozen after nearly an hour and 20 minutes of exercise torture, and then cried when I walked the next day. Reese had joined me for part of it and was encouraging every time I needed to get up off the floor.
"Well there's no way I'm ever doing THAT again!" I told them. That was when we realized I had been doing a true "Dirty Dozen" not "cheaper by the dozen" where you take away one of the exercises each round! No wonder it took me so long! I had done a total of 78 jumping jacks, 78 burpees, 78 lunges...down to 78 sprints! So I did the workout again with Laura, Tiger, and Emma, and it was SO much easier, because you only do one of the exercises 78 times (sprints) and the others get erased off the list one by one with each round. Still the most difficult workout I've ever done, but I didn't think I was going to pass out after, and I wasn't icing my legs that night.
I'm halfway through week 2 and Tiger changed up the exercises and increased the workout days on us. #5 (plank up downs) got erased after round one, because we could barely make it through 12 of them. I decided it's his dirty trick to keep burpees up there longer than 1 round, because we always want them gone right away. It's only been a short time, so obviously I don't see results, but oh boy, I can feel them!
Weezy and I are on our own tomorrow. We're tempted to do a dirty 9...or perhaps a dirty 6 without Tiger there to hold us accountable ;)
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