Tuesday is upon us.
Today I am sore in my legs as I would have guessed from doing a personal
training session last night with Amanda. My legs feel the strain today. I got there and ran for 5 minutes, half a mile
to warm up and then I went into Amanda’s leg day workout. It was really actually quite brutal. As if that is at all surprising. She likes to torture me with her workouts she
does. Personal training sessions are
only supposed to be 30 minutes but because she loves me and torturing me and
apparently has nothing better to do we ended up doing almost an hour. I guess this is a good thing, right? I mean, it’s
kind of the same thing as when we work out together and chat. Which is also
what we did, chat and have a good time.
I mean, while she kicked my ass with heavy leg stuff.
It was 6 exercises total but 4 rounds of the exercises and
each of them was particularly long and drawn out. Nothing simple about this
one. We did elevated pilot squats with
40 pounds. 20 reps. Let me tell you this
is heavy and a lot of reps. Then we
moved on to leg extensions, 35 pounds on the machine but when your legs are
straight out holding the weight it’s a 3 second hold each time, and we did 20
reps of this. And of course for good
measure on the last hold she was pushing my legs down while I had to try and
resist her and keep my legs up. It was
so brutal. My quads were on fire. Then
we did walking lunges. 20 lunges with a
3 second pulse up and down on each of them and then 20 lunges just single leg
all with holding 50 pounds. Crazy
stuff. Then it was leg press like 200
pounds up and down 20 of them. And then
it was some heavy deadlifts. 120 pound deadlifts, 15 reps only, thank goodness.
My forearm pump cannot handle more than that. And then we finished off with one
ab exercise, spider planks with the slider things under my legs so that there
was no cheating at all, 20 of those bad boys and I fell to the ground as I
finished each one.
So yes, a total of 6 agonizing exercises, 4 sets of each of
them, 20 plus reps of each. It took
pretty much an hour to complete all this and I was dripping sweat. It was enough. It was overall just enough for
the day. I decided when I was done with
it that I was just done for the day and going home. I could have ran but
honestly there was just no point yesterday. I gave myself permission to take it
easy since I did run a half marathon Sunday and then did this insane leg
workout. I knew things were going to be
hurting today and I am quite tight and sore in most leg areas. But today I have to run 3 miles. My training plan this week doesn’t look to
bad at all. This week is an “easy” week
before I gear up for the next phase of my training plan which is labelled going
farther, although nothing about it seems like it is really that much farther
than I am used to but that’s because I have been going farther than I was
supposed to for a long time.
Anyhow, this week calls for a 3 mile run, then a 4.5 mile
run, and then a 3 mile run and then this weekend I am only supposed to do a 6.5
mile run. This is an incredibly light
week for me. I don’t have any races this
weekend which is sadness but I still have to get in a run. I am really hoping to get up Saturday morning
and do an 8 mile run that is my goal for the weekend. The other runs should be easier to crank out
this week. I feel good right now but its
early morning and I always feel good at this point in the day. By the time 5 PM
rolls around I am typically not feeling as hot and mostly not wanting to go
kick ass at the gym, but I do it anyway.
Of course I do it anyway because you won’t get anywhere in life giving
up every time you don’t feel like it or life gets a little hard. You have to
dig your heals in and keep fighting the good fight. Or at least fight for what
you want.
I think tonight aside from running 3 miles I need to get in
a good upper body workout, that is my plan in some capacity to kill something
on the upper half. But we will see how
everything goes. Just keep plugging along I guess.
Oh and since it’s Tuesday, I did a couple Transformation
Tuesday pictures. Always fun to compare
and see where you have been. Have a
great one!
1 comment:
Always good to be reminded of where you've come from. You look fantastic, as always. Your arm muscles and shoulder muscles are so defined, it's awesome!
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