Week Five Day Five and I'm Glad I Made It Here

Yay for an empty gym!

I had a hectic morning dropping my son off at camp, getting the Check Engine light checked out in my old car (turns out to be a small exhaust leak that needs a "smoke" test to determine where exactly it is), pick up some more Ensure® at the local Kmart (they have the best price and I have a coupon!), go to my eye doc appointment (the generic eye drops seem to be working as well as the name brand so my pressures are 15 and my doc wants them to be 12-13), pick up some kale at the nearby Hannafords (the store is closer to the eye doc than the gym and here I can get organic kale that's more leaf and less stem than at the ShopRite), and then head to the gym. Finally. It's nearly noon by the time I get there, and I'm suddenly hungry. Aarg!

Hill 6 and Intervals 7

I toss the kale into a cooler I keep in the car and hope for the best with the windows cracked a bit. It's definitely a lot warmer today than it was yesterday. I'm hoping that my hunger pangs will abate with exercise. It's worked in the past, and the technique doesn't fail me today. By the time I finish my first leg, I feel warmed up and sweaty. And definitely not hungry although I gulp several mouthfuls of water before punching in the intervals program. I feel so good I'm singing along with my tunes. There's hardly anyone here and that's great! I'm not planning to stay all day though, so after my eight and a half miles or so, I stretch, do some abs, and stretch again. It's after 1 pm and I have things to do before picking up my son from camp! I don't have time to play with the Nexersys today, which is a bummer. Perhaps next week when my husband takes my son to camp all week (they're actually going together as a father-son thing).

Week Five Day Five Cardio
Precor 35 min hill #6 = 4.02 miles + 35 min intervals #7 = 4.51 Grand Total = 8.53 miles Wahoo!
Torso Twist Station: 2 x 25 @ 50 lbs
Cage Stretch with Heel Dips and Side Kicks
Ab Crunch Station: 100
Flat Bench Twisting Sit Ups: 150
Mat Stretch: I shorten my session by leaving out the last hamstring/calf stretch

The gym scale reads 108.0 lbs which makes me happy. Always best to end the week with a weight lower than the beginning of the week. I see Mo briefly and we barely chat while I'm on the Precor and she's on her way out the door. I also see R in the free weight area and I'm surprised because he's never usually at the gym on Fridays until late. Of course, I'm usually here a whole lot earlier.

I flex my arm in the locker room mirror and think that it looks a tad scrawny. Hhmm. I've just spent five weeks doing a "once-a-week-per-body-part workout" and I'm not sure if I'm really seeing any gains strengthwise except for back and hamstrings. My biceps have a decent peak, but the concentration curls hurt too much, and if there's pain then there's probably damage that should be avoided. There's a definite difference between fatigue pain and muscle/tendon destruction pain. The same can be said of pull ups, and lat pull downs although I suppose that at lower weights (less than my body weight) my elbows might forgive the movement enough for my lats to benefit. I guess it's another experiment to be considered.