Wow. First of all- thank you all so much for your kind tweets and comments on this morning's post. It can be really daunting to open up like that, but once again, this community has blown me away with its support and encouragement. You have no idea how much it means to me!
Late this morning, I headed to the gym to pump some iron, yo. I realized Thursday that many muscle groups weren't sore at all from Wednesday's routine, so I made an effort to increase them a bit and feel the burn! Like the other day, I I did three sets of 12 reps of each of the following circuits:
- squats, 20 lbs
- bent-over row, 12.5 lbs
- overhead press, 10 lbs
- upright row, 12.5 lbs
- tricep kickbacks, 5 lbs
- bicep curl, 10 lbs
- leg extensions, 80 lbs
- leg curls, 60 lbs
- pushups (on my knees...'cause I'm weak)
- plank, 30 seconds
- back extensions
- traditional crunches
- medicine ball twists, 10 lbs
- reverse crunches
Normally I find strength training to be really boring, but these past few workouts I've been enjoying using the free weights. Typically I use the weight machines, and I think that they can be a bit more tedious and annoying to constantly set up!
When I got home, I made myself my favorite pumpkin smoothie for lunch. Yes, I still have cans of the orange stuff stockpiled!
Into the blender went:
- 1 c canned pumpkin
- 1 large banana
- 1 scoop vanilla Sun Warrior
- large spoonful of almond butter
- 1 c almond milk
- lots of cinnamon
- drizzle of maple syrup
The result was thick, creamy and awesome. I'll probably be making this again in the next few days- I've got a jumbo can of pumpkin to finish up now.
For some solid food action, I also had a sliced fuji and a few peanut butter-chocolate-chip-stuffed dates.
I stopped eating these over Lent because they just weren't as good without the chocolate chips. I'm glad they're back in my life :D
I've got a massive pile of work to get started on before going out tonight. Balancing homework + social life these next few weeks is going to be hectic!
