After a good motivation chat with velogirl, I decided to jump back to stage one and finish it up with her before moving on to stage two together. It will be good for both of us to work out together at the same stage. I started early since she was on a business trip, and there's been a little bit of her playing catch up and me excited about what's next.
Workout 7A kicked my ass .. again. Tho we were pretty stylin' in our new Chucks - well, her new Chucks and my Old Navy knockoffs. Those squats are so darn tough. I don't know about all this "women are quad dominant" talk when I find that I can't get my butt low enough. During warmups I sat really low in the whole and found it pretty comforting to just let go of the bar and ta da - thank you safety rails. I know that we're really folding forward on our squats - I just don't know how much is too much. We both can get our butts to bench height no problem, but any lower and we fold forward.
Hit the puke zone dong the rows - funny how such a benign exercise generates that feeling. 3 sets of 8 pushups from the floor - yeah boy! I just looked at her and was like, "Regardless of what the mirror is showing or not showing right now in terms of the goddess thing - I cannot freakin' believe that I'm doing pushups on the floor!"
I even managed my step ups a little bit better.
This week the goal is to clean up the diet - plan, plan, plan.
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