The Rapture = Empty Gym

Friday night I didn’t swim. Instead, Michael and I met his family at Stanford’s for happy hour to celebrate his stepsister’s birthday. I didn’t go hog wild–despite the possibility of the world ending on Saturday. 😉 I had a cheeseburger and 2 vodka tonics.

I wasn’t expecting the burger to be “normal sized” and I wasn’t expecting it to come with fries either. I guess since it was happy hour I expected a small slider type burger. Oh well! I was hungry and ate it all.

Michael and I split a salad too. It was the Southwest Chopped Salad. It was really delicious. I think I would have been okay with just the salad and not the burger as well. Again, had I known it was a normal sized burger I would have ordered just one thing.

I woke up Saturday and since the world hadn’t ended yet, I figured I better get my butt to the gym to work off Friday night’s dinner. When I got there it was a ghost town. I suppose everyone was out enjoying their last day on Earth? 😉 At the gym I found a treadmill open (who am I kidding, I had my pick of any treadmill I wanted!) with a TV and I got sucked into a few episodes of Sex and The City. That was such a good show. It was the episodes where Carrie was movie to Paris and then Big chases her to Paris. Awww….I am such a sucker for romance. Before I knew it, I’d run on the treadmill for over 3 miles. I was feeling pretty good and had been doing intervals of hills without even really noticing.

I headed down to the weight room and spent the rest of my time using the plated weight machines (also empty). I also tried a new machine!

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It was the Seated Bicep Machine. For some reason I’d always skipped that machine. I think I was intimidated by it for some reason (kind of like how I’m intimated by the bench press where you lay down?). I decided to give it a try and it was so easy I had to keep adding plates to it to add weight. I think I got up to almost 30 pounds on it. It felt good to try something new.

I did my normal routine with those plate machines–chest, back, shoulders. Then I did some ab work. I’ve neglected my ab exercises for awhile now. I grabbed one of the medicine balls and did the Russian Twist.

I finished up with lots of squats and then stretched like my life depended on it.

Somehow I managed to burn an insane amount of calories at the gym Saturday morning. Not sure exactly what I did differently…but booyah!

Gym Stats:

Time: 1:44

Calories Burned: 800

Loving my non-scale victories lately. Lots of muscle definition can be seen now! Post-workout snack was cottage cheese. Mmmm protein!

QUESTION: How did you spend your last day on earth this morning?