Exhausted!!!!

I have never been so exhausted as I am this morning! Last night I went to my Krav class and boy, the instructor ran us hard. As usual, he did the standard circuit training with knee tags, push ups, situps, jump squats, and scrawls. We did that series for about 15 minutes before we went onto punching the pad (had to use our boxing/training gloves). He has us do 2 sets of 25 jabs each on the right, left, and right/left combo. In between the sets, we had to do 10 pushups and then hold our position (on our hands and feet) for 10 seconds when we got done. After that series, we all got in a circle and rotated like a clock, switching whose pad we punched. The instructor told us that if anyone put their hands down during the punching circle, we would ALL have to do push ups (so needless to say, we were all trying to encourage everyone to keep their hands up!). I felt like I was in boot camp or something. Just when I thought things couldn't get worse, we went onto practicing knee punches (where you use your knee to punch the gut area). Of course our partners were holding the pads, but we did 4 series of knee punches (right, left, and continuous knees on each side). The instructor just couldn't let us rest inbetween knees, so he had us do 10 squats and hold it at the very end in the squat position. When I thought we were finally done for the evening (because it was 8pm and time for class to be over). He proceeded to have us do more jump squats (10, 8, 6, 4, 2 in that order) while holding it for 10 seconds in between. It was brutal!!!!! For the last 5 minutes we did stomach curls where we curled up in a ball and slowly to a count of 5, released into a straight stretch while keeping our legs and arms and head off of the floor. We did about 10 of these. We had to do a few extra because some people let their legs touch the floor and others released too fast (not to a count of 5). Lastly, he had us get in a plank position (where we are face down on our elbows and tips of our toes----kind of like what we had to do when we held our position after a push up but we were on our elbows rather than our hands). We then had to "walk" our hands and elbows up and down but not move our feet. I don't know if any of these descriptions make sense, but I'm sure you get some idea of how tough it was. It takes alot for me to sweat and last night I was soaked! I know I burned mega calories last night, which was good. I was planning on jogging today but I think I'm going to have to wait on that. I need a rest day for sure! My body just aches and I'm so tired. I know it has to be from last night's Krav Maga class. If you want a good workout that has a built-in trainer and is a good motivator, I highly recommend Krav Maga. Not only do you get a fantastic workout, but you also learn self-defense in the process which may help save your life. I know you may be reading this and wondering, "that's crazy that our class is like that", but as C has pointed out-----if I'm ever attacked, I need to have the stamina and endurance, if needed, to run or get away from my attacker. That's why some classes can be as tough as last night's. In my mind, I kill 2 birds with 1 stone, so I don't mind. It just hurts the next day! LOL