So, its Monday again and after taking a rest day yesterday I was more than ready to get back to it in the gym. The office filtered out early today as its Halloween and everyone with kids went home to get ready for trick-or-treating. Well, I'm certainly not going to be denied an early departure just because I don't have any children so I was more than happy to get to the gym early! Unfortunately my body wasn't as eager to workout as my mind; I only got in an 8 minute run before the cramps set in and then pushed myself through a painful additional 2 before deciding to cut it short today. Oh well, maybe I just needed a running warm-up before the marathon sesh I'm going to have tomorrow, eh?! Haha maybe, but more than likely my brain was just overly fixated on Halloween candy...
After my weak run I ventured upstairs to do back and chest. Today's weight workout included 3 sets of 8 chest press, 3 sets of 8 bent-over rows (one side at a time) and lastly 3 sets of 8 sitting rows using the cables. Then I moved onto abs starting with leg lifts on the standing leg lift/tricep dip machine (I have no idea what this is really called). I did 2 sets of 8 front lifts and then 2 sets of 8 side lifts. I acually like the machine at Planet better because you can hold the tricip dip bars while doing your lifts, making it more of a balancing/total body strengthening exercise. Plus, it makes you look like a gymnast :) The last thing I did was 3 sets of 8 stability ball leg lifts. I know I do these a lot but they just work so well! Finishing with a lot of lower body stretches again, I then left and went to Whole Foods for some delicious homemade chicken soup for dinner. I'm not usually much of a soup person but it sounded so perfect on this frigid post-blizzard evening. It did not disappoint.
I know what machine you're talking about! It's my second fav machine next to the rower!
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