Monday June 21st

Saturday June 19, 2010

Weight: 156.8

Exercise: 30 minutes on the elliptical and 25 minutes (7 miles) on the bike - kept the resistance pretty high the whole time on both machines and tried to really go as fast as I could the whole time so that I could strengthen my leg muscles more and hopefully have that help keep me knees in check a little better. Plus I really wanted to get a good cardio workout since I haven't been running for the past week. I've felt like a total slacker and I HATE it! But I needed to give my knee a good long rest. I also went in to 26.2 a running store here in town and got my gait analysis done and then got online and ordered some new shoes.

Monday June 21, 2010

Weight: 156.8

Exercise: 30 minutes on the bike (8.5 miles) did some good intervals of super fast speed and normal resistance to pretty slow and SUPER high resistance, held each for at least a minute then would do moderate speed and resistance in between.

30 minutes abs

15 minutes glutes

HARDEST STINKING 1 hour of weight class EVER!!! We did circuit training but it was crazy hard! Maybe it was because I did such a good workout this morning or maybe it was just because it was hard! We did tons of jump squats and walking squats with weights and we did burpie push ups where you jump into push up position do a push up and then jump back and then jump up in the air and then jump back down and do it again... and again... and again! We did planks on the exercise ball and pikes on the exercise ball (feet on the ball hands on the ground then lift your rear up into the air as the ball rolls in towards your hands and you are in an upside down 'V' position and then roll back down) and we did deep squats and concentrated bicep curls and hammer curls while in squat position and we did some crazy tricep concentrated push ups on dumbells and then after you come up you turn to the side and lift one arm all the way up above your body so you are balancing one hand on the dumbell and your legs straight and toes on the ground and your body facing the side with one arm holding a dumbell straight above you - hard to explain but even harder to do!) What else? There was more, and we did 15 reps of each (or held plank for 1 minute) and then went right into the next with no rest. Everyone was totally burned out and one of the girls almost passed out! It was crazy! But felt good to work so hard.

It feels good to get some cardio in and strength training on my legs again. I'm hoping that by the time my new shoes come (they should be here Tuesday or Wednesday) I should be good to do my short runs this week. I have a 4 mile, then 30 minute fartlek, then 4 miles and I am hoping and praying that I'll be able to do my long run this Saturday of 16 miles. I am planning on going really slow this week to ease into it a little. But since I'm almost positive that I haven't injured anything yet (no sharp or shooting pains in a specific location) and that it's just strain caused by retarded shoes. I guess we'll find out after I start running in my new shoes. I'm SO excited to get them! They left Cerritos California this morning at 4:12 am and are on their way to me right now! Hooray!