I. Am. Sore.

20Feb08

My thighs are killing me, I can barely walk. The lunges from Monday and today’s squats have done my legs IN. I feel myself getting stronger but DANG! Does it have to be so painful?? I wanted to do some HIIT after the weight work but my legs were screaming “NO!!! NO!!!” Maybe they will feel better when I get home so I can do it tonight.

I’m at the second phase of Stage 1 where the reps go down to 12 per set. Allowed me to up the weights which I liked. I don’t have a cable station so I’m doing the barbell bent over rows and I just feel like I’m not able to get my elbows high enough to really get to the back muscles. I want to sub one arm rows instead, but since that will take me double the time I don’t know if it will diminish the returns. I’ll have to think about that one for a bit.

Stacking my shoulders and pulling my head down into my chest for those prone jackknives really makes the pikes easier. I did pikes for every other rep and was loving it. My form was a little off, but I can work on that. I want to get to a point where I’m doing all the reps that way.

I’m glad the rep count went down to 12, 15 seemed like it would never end. And now that the reps are only 12, I feel alot better about upping the weights on the squats and leg presses. I’m okay with getting the bar over my head for now, the bar is at about 40-45 pounds depending on what exercise I’m doing. We’ll see how much longer I can keep this up.

I’m afraid of those power moves later on in the book, the ones where you like SHOOT the weights overhead. Not looking forward to that especially since I’m at home, have no one to spot me and soooo don’t want to be dropping weights on my head OR the wood floor. But I’ll just cross that bridge when I get to it.

WW is going well. I’ve run through almost all of my WPA’s for the week, it’s the bread and the tablespoon of peanut butter I have with my yogurt that’s eating up all those points. But I don’t want to deprive myself of the things I want like a half a cinnamon raisin bagel or one of those Fiber One bars or peanut butter. I did get on the scale and I have lost since last Saturday, but again I’m not making any predictions until this Saturday’s official WI.

Monday I was ravenous. I couldn’t tell if it was because I was home and just wanted to eat or if it was becaues of the weight work that morning and that my body was craving nutrition. I tried to eat well when I did eat. And have been trying to just make a really conscious effort to think about everything I’m eating. This is a good week. Usually I’ll have one good week and two bad ones. I sooooo want to make sure that doesn’t happen. If I can get down into the 150’s before the end of March I’ll be happy.

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Tags: jackknife, pain, pike, reps, sets, sore, weight loss