The sun is shinning, the snow is almost all melted, and even the birds are coming back and gracing us with their lovely chirping every morning. It is getting warm enough to go out for a nice run...sans gloves! It gets me excited for all the upcoming activities: cycling, triathlons, half marathons, running and even camping!
Last week's workouts rocked! Even though I was down with a cold for 2 days, the other days saw me giving it 100 percent of everything I had. I increased my swimming by 250 yards (5 extra laps) for each day, which meant that cumulative, I added about 1,000 yards to the week's totals, definitely stoked about this change!
Another huge change: my meetings with a personal trainer. He is helping me get proper posture while lifting and by pushing the weight a little higher. He showed me how to use some of the machines that I didn't know how to use, one of them, the Barbell Squat machine. Since I usually have to lift the barbell to place it on my shoulders, I lifted only 40 or 50 lbs, but since I don't have to lift the one on the machine, I was able to squat with 75lbs!!! I am so excited about this change and the way it will improve my leg strength. Another push came in the Dumbell Rows, all along I have been doing them with 15lbs and the trainer gave me a 20lbs dumbell, at first I laughed and said I couldn't do it. He said to try. I did, I had done 15reps and I wasn't tired so he suggested going up to 25lbs. I was able to complete 3sets of 12 reps with 25lbs!!! Stoked for sure! Of course there were other places where I sucked terribly such as the Australian Pull Up--couldn't do more than 8! I have to work on those a bit to bring them up to at least 12.
My weekly totals:
Swimming for this week:
8,000 yards
Run:
7 miles
Spin:
2 hrs
Weight Lifting:
4hrs (both upper and lower)
I am hoping that this next week brings sunshine so I can run outside, health so that I don't have to miss any days at the gym and I can get 10,000 yards of swimming, and lastly fast recuperation so that I can lift weights and start shedding some of the lbs so my cycling goes smoother this season.
In knitting news: I am still on break from both loom knitting and needle knitting. My hands still hurt from the sock knitting I had to do. I figure another week or so of no knitting will help my wrists. However, I am conducing a Sock Loom a Long if you want to join us. We are working on one design for the entire month so you can still join us.
Gotta jet for now but I'll come back and share with you my adventure in Bowling!
Yeah, the warm weather is a huge boost to the mileage! Have fun and keep exercising!
Posted by: Akshaye | March 08, 2009 at 09:16 PM
yes i would like to be on your list for the dvd
joan meadows
ibjem22@yahoo.com
thank yoy looking forward to receiving it
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Posted by: joan meadows | March 09, 2009 at 09:29 AM
Yes I think thats a great ideal. I would like to be on that list.
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Thanks
Posted by: Dawn Morski | March 13, 2009 at 08:49 AM
Look at you go! Warm weather rocks.
Posted by: Peggy | March 16, 2009 at 06:14 PM