Bridge Kickover

I've been working on a bridge kick over for most of the summer. Here's one at Aerofit. This one's not especially pretty, but you get the point.

Basically you go up in a bridge and kick over. It's not the hardest skill ever. Your back has to be flexible enough to go up into a bridge. And the key to this one is keeping your arms straight—hands and shoulders should be in line, not extended. (Mine arms are slightly extended in this video.) And you have to kick hard with one leg.

I worked on these at my first tumbling class. You can start kicking over from a higher block (easy!) and gradually work your way down to the floor. Here, I'm kicking over from 2-3 inches of padding.

I can't quite do them all the way on the floor, but I've been pretty close for a while.

Up next: I'd love to do a front limber to back walk over.

Introduction: The Nerdy Girl's Guide to Working Out

I really should point my toes!

Hi I’m Sara. The sometimes-secretary of the nerdy girls club. I’ll be in the back taking notes and hoping no one looks at me.

I’m also a horrible show-off at the local trampoline gym and am utterly addicted to working out. That’s a new thing though.

By day I am a bespectacled copy editor (not a particularly good copy editor and I completely blind to my own typos. Apologies in advance) and after work, I do back shoot-outs on the TRX bands or work on one-handed supermans off the wall at my local trampoline gym.

I started working out seriously about a year ago. I went from a girl who exercised a few times a year (when she felt fat) to a girl who feels like I have to apologize to my trainer if I miss a day. (I’m sorry I had a work emergency and that’s why I missed the awful, awful TRX saws.)

This blog is dedicated to my awkward adventures at the gym—hoping to inspire other nerdy girls, even nerds still in the closet about their nerdiness, to not be afraid of pushups, spandex and guys with 8-pack-abs and biceps that make Popeye look like a pansy.

GET THEE TO THE GYM!  

You can still be a smart, educated, geeky girl who sneaks in any chance to read her kindle and still go to circuit training and kick serious ass on the rope climb or goblet squats.

You might not have as much time for fanfiction—but you could also write it off as research on your muscular hero or for your secret spy heroine and how they learn to do those flying kicks.

It might even be your duty as nerd to be well-rounded, to read, be cultured and be in shape. You might even::gasp:: like working out. At any rate, you should try it. (Can’t knock something you haven’t tried.)