well, last week was interesting. work was ridiculous, stress levels way too high to be healthy. and my workout last week? all over the place. i still felt great, but it was just…different. so this morning brent says we need to change it up.
rather than starting on the leg press, we started on leg extensions. usually, my legs are already worked by the time i get to the extensions, so they are just so hard for me. but starting with them meant fresh muscles. i think the weight was at 200, and i did really well. or at least i think i did. it felt good. burned like it should. i didn’t struggle like i had in the past few weeks, coming off the leg press. was kind of eye-opening for me, since we hadn’t done that order before, to see how much of a difference it makes. i mean, yeah, i knew it would make a difference, but to actually DO it really showed me the difference.
brent is just awesome too. somehow, no matter how hard i’m struggling (whether it’s last week’s mental stress mess or pure physical struggle against the machines), he makes it fun. i come out of the studio feeling so much better, physically and mentally. it’s like he’s a trainer and a therapist. so cool.
anyway, so we did the extensions, then the chest press. that one felt good too. maybe it’s just coming off last week that made this week feel so much better. i don’t know, but pretty much all of the machines felt good this week. i mean, they were hard, and my muscles burned and all that, but i felt like it was a good workout. it went like it “should”…you know, whatever that means.
all of the other machines were like normal except that we swapped out the abdominal crunch machine for the pull down machine. that was hard, but it was good. i could tell it was working a lot of muscles at once. i really felt it in my arms, but i could also tell that my abs were really working. i did better on the hip adduction (i forget, is that the pull in one, that’s the one i mean) than i have before. i think i actually completed two full reps myself, and most of the third, when i think i have only done one before. nice, i like progress.
on the chest press machine, brent said something about me doing really well, that the weight was at 180. i told him “you know that really means nothing to me, right” because to me it’s just a number. sure, it means something to him, since he has other people to compare it to, but to me, it could be 100 or 300 and it still wouldn’t mean much. ok, if it was 300, i’d be pretty impressed with myself because that is a big number. but 180? no clue.
so we changed it up. i think it was a really good thing to do. i feel great right now. a little muscle fatigue, but that’s a good thing.
the other cool thing (how could i forget!) happened over the weekend. my mom commented on how good i look. she is considering going to brent, after seeing the progress that i have made. now is that a compliment or what?! very cool.
measurements for this week. not much change since last week, but then again, they’re just numbers. it’s nice to feel less worried about the numbers because i like what i’m seeing in the mirror. now that’s progress.
16-Jul 22-Jul 29-Jul 5-Aug 12-Aug 19-Aug RHR 54 50 59 53 weight 166 166 165 162 162 161 calf 13.5 13.5 13.25 13.25 13.25 13 thigh 23.25 23 22.5 22.25 22.25 22 across hip bones 42.75 42 41 40.75 40.75 40.75 widest belly point 39.75 39.5 39.5 natural waist 35 34.5 33.25 33.25 33.5 33 chest 40 39.75 40 40 neck 14 14.25 13.75 13.5 13.5 13.75 bicep 12 12 12.5 12.25 12.5 12.25
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