pain and pleasure
I suck, I know! I’m not generally one to make excuses, but here comes a big one. I haven’t been blogging cause the pain in my leg has been SO bad lately. To the point I have given up on my stubbornness towards taking something for the pain some nights… The morphine numbs the pain, but it also numbs my brain. Not a huge fan of that, but sometimes there’s only so much one person can take. As for the blog drought, sitting at my computer is agony. Don’t get me wrong, I feel bad. 😦 And there has been lots I have wanted to write about! My 100 day challenge ended Sunday. I will be taking some “after” photos in the next few days, but will have to try to get ahold of “before” pics from my trainer. This smart guy didn’t take any. Awesome. :p Not really sure they will show a whole lot of a difference, but I KNOW I do feel stronger! Yesterday I was supposed to meet a coworker at the gym. I had planned 2 hours of gym time into my day to fit in my workout, and help her out as well. When she didn’t show up, I was SO excited! Two hours to do nothing but kick MY a**?!?! Right on! 😀 So I did! It’s crazy really, when it comes to physical activity, my leg is FINE. Also the part of the day when I am completely happy 🙂
Wanna talk HAPPY?? Let me talk about accomplishments for a minute. 😀 Box jumps. I can do them physically, but my head prevents me from doing them well sometimes. Some days I stand in front of the box and we just connect. I spring up onto it like it’s nothing! Other days though, my head tells me I can’t do it before I’ve even tried. It’s usually those days that I smash my shins. Why is it our subconscious can sometimes set us up for failure? Anyways, enough of that. Yesterday I had one of my best leg workouts to date, which included 40 brilliant box jumps. That’s right 😉
One more accomplishment I’m proud of is chest dips. When I started my 100 day challenge back in January, I was barely able to perform one quality chest dip. Since all the workouts in my current program involve 4 sets of each exercise, I have worked HARD to build up my performance with these. I was happy with the progress I was making… had built up to 4 sets with 5, 4, 4, 3 reps consecutively. Then today, something was different. I don’t totally know what happened, but chest dips and I became best friends for a moment. 🙂 It was the weirdest thing… I felt like I weighed nothing for a moment or two! Very strange, but I’ll take it!
The last two weeks (ish) I’ve not felt my usual strength through my workouts. My mind was telling my arms/legs to LIFT, but they were not so willing to oblige. I just figured I was over training and needed a bit of a break. While this may have been the case, I also decided to switch back from banana pancake breakfasts to my old routine of 1/2 a baked sweet potato mixed with a dash of cinnamon and a scoop of protein powder. I figured that adding a little extra carbs back into my life might be just what I needed to get things back in gear. After two days of incredible workouts, I’m getting the feeling I may have been right!
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