Monday, November 21, 2011
Mixed it up a little bit today
I got to the office this morning ready to start week 8 of my Body-for-Life (only 5 weeks to go) when I got to the office I was excited and ready to get underway. I was not feeling lunges today and had pretty much no desire to do them so I decided to mix things up a little bit. Rather than do the lunges I did standing leg curls to workout my hamstrings. I don't know if I did more harm or good in the way of getting a good workout but it was nice to do something other than lunges. I did work my quads by doing leg extensions on the machine and feel like I got a pretty good workout there. I also felt a lot more burn on my calves and abs today than I have the past few workouts. The funny thing is that I didn't move the weight up on either of the exercises because 60 lbs on the abs is too much for me to handle and there is not a dumb bell heavier than 50 lbs for the calves but either way I felt like I got one of the better workouts on each of those muscles. That makes me happy since my abs are one of the places that I look to in order to see my results and know that I have quite a ways to go before I get them to were I want them to be. I got half the questions answered that I have been wanting to answer. I weighed myself Saturday morning and it turns out that I have lost 2 lbs since starting this. I was hoping to see weight gain at this point but I do know that I am seeing results so it seems that I am just losing fat weight faster than I am putting on muscle weight. I guess that means that I am either going to have to eat higher calories of protein or just work harder on the weight training days. Honestly I am OK with doing both.
Labels:
exercise,
fitness,
lower body workout,
nutrition,
Weight training
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