Beach day!!

The hike today was at the beach! It was really beautiful!!! So cool - it wasn't really a hike though - walked on the beach for about a mile or so, we then climbed up a cliff (see photo below) and then we walked around a neighborhood that had some inclines - we saw some great gates to houses, in fact that was all we saw of the houses - I'm sure there were some really cool houses behind those gates. So, it certainly wasn't a difficult hike but while worth the trip to see the beach part of Malibu!

The rest day very similar to the other days - stretching after the hike, then lunch. Lecture and then the afternoon group fitness classes: ball works is similar to body pump but on a stability ball. The cardio class was called Treads - on a piece of cardio equipment, warm up for 5 minutes, then for 5 minutes you increase speed and or intensity to max level that you can do for 5 minutes, then you go back down to base level for 5 minutes, then back up for 4 minutes as hard as you can, back down for 4 minutes and continue that for 3, 2,1minute and then 30 secs sprint followed by a minute at base, and then one more 30 sec sprint and then cool down. Trust me it is a great cardio burn! I ended the day with a water class.