I Need More Weight

Last night at the gym I started my workout with the Return to Running Plan so I could try to participate in the Twitter #fitblog chat. It’d been a few weeks since I was able to participate and I missed chatting with everyone! There were a lot of good questions in last night’s chat. Here’s one:

QUESTION: What is happiness to you?

It proved to be more difficult than I thought to participate while on a treadmill but I did my best. During the “walk” portion I would type or catch up on tweets, then I’d jog. Needless to say, it took me longer to complete the 1.5 miles. 😉

Actually it took a lot longer than last time.

After the walk/jog for 1.5 mile, I began lifting weights.

I quickly realized something surprising: THE WEIGHTS WERE TOO LIGHT! Every machine I did (that I normally do) was too EASY! Could it be that I had broken through another plateau?

I was pretty excited. I increased the weight on almost every machine I use and had a fantastic workout. There was one triceps machine that I did not increase the weight with. That’s definitely an area of my body I still struggle with.

After the weight lifting, I worked on my core and strengthened my hips:

I have three hip and IT Band strengthening exercises I do. I see some progress since starting them three weeks ago. I don’t shake as much, but I’m not quite strong on my right side either. I hope that continues to improve.

I ran into an old coworker at the gym. She said she was taking the Turbo Kickboxing class and said I should join her. Since my workout was over I said maybe next week. Now that I’ll know someone in the class that might push me to do it!

Gym Stats:

Time: 1:30

Calories Burned: 601

Routine: Treadmill, weights, core, stretching, strengthening

I accidentally reset my watch before I could take a picture of my workout stats so I had to look in the “Diary.” Luckily it was the first workout of the week.

I got home and immediately drank my Glutamine muscle recovery drink.

I liked the orange flavor better.

I used my foam roller and then fixed leftovers for dinner. I reheated the last of the brown rice, steamed some veggies, and reheated the leftover burger patties from my magazine dinner.

I used Goddess Dressing on the veggies.

Reheated burger patties do not turn out very well. I didn’t eat much of them. Oh well. I had one scoop of ice cream for dessert.

And I played with Jeremy’s iPad for a bit. I’d never seen one before so it was cool to see.

It was a good night, a good workout, and I had time to watch a few episodes of Grey’s Anatomy before heading to bed.

QUESTION: Do you have an iPad? Did you participate in the #fitblog chat?