I'm feeling awesome! I mean, all last night I had a headache from a bleach related incident involving our laundry machine, but headache aside, I feel good! I'm feeling good about my food choices, and I feel good about how much I've been working out! In fact I'm back to finding workouts to be fun!
I've found Pinterest to be a fabulous tool in helping to keep things interesting, and I have found some great tips, tricks, inspiration and workouts on that site! It definitely takes the guess work out of - well anything. I'm completely and totally a Pinterest addict, and damn proud of it!
My workout tonight was this:
Damn. My arms were shaking by the end! It was a super quick workout totaling 10 minutes duration, but man did my arms get a workout!
I started off with the first 10 pushups military style - and boy was that 10th pushup hard to get too! Then I did my 20 tricep dips and then moved on to bicep curls. For the curls, I used 5 pound weights for no other reason than convenience.
See we have these nifty Bowflex adjustable weights in our "gym" in our basement, but they were ALL THE WAY DOWNSTAIRS!! (and my calves are still feeling a little sore going down the stairs). But luckily my 5 pounds were already upstairs and conveniently right next to me - so I did the curls with them. I could have done the curls with 7 or 10 pounds, but I went with the fives out of sheer laziness. To increase the intensity though, I did very slow curls tightening my muscles the whole way. By the 23rd curl, my arms were definitely burning, so I'm happy with my "light weight" choice.
The 40 second plank was a beast though, and I got to 35 shaky seconds before my knees hit the mat, and I rested for 2 seconds before popping back up to complete my 40 second hold. I'm still saying it counts. I have to start somewhere...
The 50 tucks were difficult as well as my abs were already mad at me for the last plank hold, so I split my 50 tucks into two 25 sets. And then it was time for the plank again. This one I did on my knees - I'll need to work up to doing both sets on my toes, but for now, since my midsection resembles that of a member of the Pilsbury family, I'm comfortable with my knee plank for tonight.
I also did my push ups on my knees. After 60 super slow intense bicep curls, my arms were weak!
Tomorrow I may need Ben to wash my hair for me - depending on whether or not I can life my arms above my head with the strength of my own body. We'll see how that goes for me.
I finished my night off with a couple hard boiled eggs for protein (that I cooked while I worked out - how's that for multitasking??!) And sitting back with my laptop to write this blog entry. Now it's 10:45, which leaves me plenty of time for a decent nights sleep - so until tomorrow, I leave you!
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