Saturday, January 15, 2011

January Challenge Update

So I went to the gym again on Wednesday night and took advantage of a free personal training session. The guy killed me! I kept telling him that I had not been to the gym in 2 years, but I'm thinking now that he might have thought I was just making excuses. We started off with 90 calf raises using the machine with weights on your shoulders! Followed by at least 90 reptitions of abducter and 90 repitiions of adducter presses on machines. Then I did walking squats. Followed by 30 jumping squats. Then I did a wall sit. Then I did a quad workout on a machine (probably about 90 repitions-the guy seemed to like 30-30-30 sets (Even when I was in great shape I usually did 10-10-10 sets). We finished the workout off with a ton of sit ups on some machine I had never used before. Of course I am super competitive (and used to be in really good shape) so I pushed my way through the entire workout. Well, I am paying for it now!! I could barely get out of bed on Thursday and have been limping around ever since. (I joked that I wouldn't be able to walk the next day, but I never actually believed it would happen). My left calf is killing me!!! I can't straighten my leg with my heel on the ground and today gave in and took ibuprofen, elevated and iced it. :( So much for my January challenge and new years resolution to work out regualrly. I already wasn't able to get my 3 days in this week and unless my leg drastically improves it doesn't look like I will be making it to the gym this upcoming week either.  :(

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