Well hello log. I kinda forgot to post yesterday. Actually I was so p-ed off at my computer it consumed my thoughts. My current desktop is a few days short of a year old and on Wednesday I got the old blue screen of death. Good times. Anyway, it seems to be working today! I took the hard drive from my old laptop and got an external case for it so now I have two hard drives. I am currently backing everything up. Learned that lesson way too many times. Here's hoping I won't go through another computer. This is my fourth computer in 8 years. I have a way with technology....
So on Wednesday I ran 3 miles with my DH. I always think its a good idea in the beginning to run with him but he runs sooo much faster than me. Its a good challenge but it kills me.
Thursday May 1st: Stage 2 A3
Squat Push Press: 2x10, 55# ummmm I did 55 this time with much struggle so I think my previous weight was way off. I must have thought those 5's were 10's
step up: 2x10, 20's - ready to move up to 25's I think.
1 pt db row: 4x10, 20's - need to move up on these too. They were challenging, but I could definitely do more next time.
split static lunge: 2x10, 25's - I like how I feel these in my butt!
push up: 2x12, bw
Plank: 2x60, I forced myself to finish this. I think I had my arms in the wrong place last time. I looked at the book again and it felt better this time.
Woodchop: I used a 20lb dumbbell but stood up this time and tried to mimic the path shown in the book. I know that this is using more of my shoulder than if I had a cable machine but I felt like I was working this time.
Intervals: 22 min +/-. I sort of did the prescribed Stage 2 from the book this time. But I did 5 one minute all out effort with 1 minute jog. I had flashbacks to my 400 meter days in track. It took me just over a minute to run a 400 back in high school. I think it would take longer now. Just a little longer.
Tonight my DH and I used a gift card we have had for months to Buca di Beppo. I had pasta for the first time in 3 months! It tasted great. I am excited to see how bloated I will be tomorrow - ha! Gotta have treats every once in a while. I can't help but feel a tiny bit guilty though. Amazing how your mindset changes once you commit to eating a certain way.
Not fitness related:
So now back to my computer issues. My laptop crashed on me exactly a year ago this week. I was in the middle of creating my wedding invitations in Adobe Illustrator. I had spent weeks designing these things and then one day I came home and the computer was gone. I had to start from scratch on these which sucked big time, but I also lost pictures, 5 years of architecture school projects, and misc. other items which was way worse. Just a warning to everyone out there reading this....get an external hard drive, make cd's of data, make actual prints of your pictures and back up your data!
My next computer WILL be a Mac. I am so sick of viruses and crashes. I know they aren't perfect either but I am hating on PC's big time.
(Also, my little brother (he's 6'2" 210, so not so little) whom I admire dearly just finished his junior A hockey career tonight. He will play in college next year so its not all over, but its the end of another era. On Sunday he scored the teams game winning goal in OT to send them to nationals. It was such an amazing moment - I am so proud of him.)