Thanksgiving. I actually wasn't living the fat lyfe (thanks to Jer for the spelling), and went to the gym on Thanksgiving. what?! i know. I actually did really good and I didn't eat a ton. Anyways no one else was in the entire gym, so I worked out for a little more than a hour. Which, I promptly ruined/negated when I ate a pack of poptarts about 8pm. lesson
learned. no poptarts in the house. If they aren't there, I can't eat them and God knows I'm too lazy to actually go somewhere to get a pack. But for those of you who are/aren't interested in what I did, I'll tell you. I warmed up on the bike (God forbid I get on an elliptical) and then did 3 sets of 12 of the following in pairs of
two. Otherwise known as supersets I think. Incline press with 15lbs, dumbbell flys with 8s, then a 45 degree lat pull down and a reverse grip pulldown (which, story on that in a second) with 60lbs, then I did lying leg curls with 25lbs (and that was plenty), seated leg extension with 45lbs (going from the lying leg curl to the seated extension within 10 seconds was a little dicey), then Romanian dead lifts with a 45lb bar and hack squats with 100lbs, then I did 3 sets of 12 medicine ball raises with a 12lb ball and alternating toe touch crunches. Then I was going to do a plank, then I decided, April fools! I'm going home. The RDLs and hack squats were kinda sketch. I decided do them as slow as I could possibly stand to do it, and I wasn't sure I wasn't going to blow groceries all over God's green creation. Which made me a little happy, oddly enough, to think that I would force myself to work at such an intensity that I would throw up and not have anyone to blame but myself. weird. anyways, so I wasn't sure if I dreamed this, done this at O3 or heard becky buckwild talk about it, but I was going to do those reverse grip pulldowns and if I'm gonna do something like that, I generally watch a youtube video about it first. So, I youtubed it and I won't name names, but the one I decided to watch had a few thousand hits so I was like this must be good. This jackass has a really heavy yankee accent and he had his shirt off. I'm sorry, you can't have your shirt on in the gym?! especially when there's a camera on you? you're so cool. That's what I was thinking while I watched it. That and now I can do this safely. Anyways, that trip to the gym was a success in my book.
So. I think we all know I have a Pinterest problem, as evidenced by my phone autocorrecting interest to Pinterest. And I had to increase my data package with Verizon. So I'm on it all the time and keep seeing these workouts that say like "burn 700 calories in 10 minutes". I'm sorry, unless you're sprinting backwards on a treadmill on like a 15 incline I doubt that is the case and even if you were I still doubt the validity of that. Anyways. When I go to the gym on my own now like on the weekends, my new project is to try these workouts I find and I will probably include my thoughts on them here. However. Today I met Jennifer and we did the gym workout Darin wrote for her. 120 body weight squats later I'm ready to cut my legs off. I did 15 minutes on the bike. 4 miles on a level 8 resistance (I generally keep it on a nice even 4) and I was sweating like a whore in church. Anyways, The way it went was 10 squats, 10 chest presses, 10 squats, 10 seated rows, 10 squats, 10 shoulder presses, 10 squats, 20 crunches. Repeated 3x with minimal rest. And by minimal I mean 45 seconds. Not sure if/when I will be repeating that. Never thought I would see the day I voluntarily did 120 squats. Ever.
But. The following picture is how I'll say goodbye for now :)
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