A lesson in coordination...

I have never claimed to be the most coordinated girl in the world, but since I have started working out with a trainer I have found out exactly how clumsy/uncoordinated I am.  It started with little things like tripping over the BOSU or toppling over when I was coming off a step - but today had to take the cake.  I was taken down by a little piece of stretchy plastic that every 3 year old can use - yes my friends, I was beaten by a skipping rope.

It wasn't one of the horrible ones that we had to use as a kid - the yellow ones that you had to burn the ends on that left little plastic splinters in your hand.  No it was one of the cheap thin ones that has the plastic handles.  It all started off innocently enough - Paul demonstrated exactly how he wanted it done - and I was to repeat exactly what he did.  It wasn't anything fancy like double jumps or skipping on one foot - no sir, it was regular skipping.

Now, I should premise this by saying that I bought some fancy new shoes too - so I am going to blame part of it on 'learning' my new shoes - but they can't take all the credit.  So I take the rope and put the handles in both hands, and just as I did in pre-school I started with the rope behind both of my feet....so far so good...then I brought it over my head (or at least tried to) and whacked myself in the back of the head with it - see that can't possibly be the shoes fault.  So back to my starting position with the rope behind my feet handles in each hand - and this time it made it all the way over my head only to be stopped by my feet.  It seems that I must work on hand/eye coordination (which should worry anyone who drives with me).

I tried a few more times and then wiping away his tears of laughter, Paul had me do it with no rope.  Just the jumping part of it (which is awkward enough for me) but I imagine I looked a little strange to everyone else waving my arms around like I still had the skipping rope in my hands....so I was beaten by a simple piece of plastic - but not to be outdone, we kept trying that throughout the session and by the end I was able to string together 10-12 skips....this is not the end dear skipping rope....not the end....