Just One of Those Days...

...when you wanna break stuff (in the words of Limp Bizkit). You know, the kind of day when everything seems to be going wrong and you are one tiny step away from picking up your whole life, running away and never looking back. Yeah, that was today. It was almost to the point of me skipping the gym entirely and going home to sit on the couch and feel bad for myself. Well luckily I didn't. I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. When something bad happens, something good usually follows. It may not be the same amount of goodness as the badness but over time things generally even out. In my experience anyway.

So, as you can imagine the treadmill got quite a beating today! I busted out my 20 minutes despite wanting to keel over around minute 18. The woman to my left was making these obnoxious throat-clearing noises the whole time. I kept looking over at her with what I'm sure was an extremely annoyed and irritated expression but she was completely oblivious. There used to be a woman at World's who did the same thing on the stationary bike everyday. I think thats what made me switch to the eliptical. I guess I'll have to be more careful in my treadmill selection next time. Although, I suppose her adding to my anger issue is probably what kept me going!

Next I headed upstairs to do 3 sets of 8 reps each on the inner/outer thigh machine.  Then, I wanted to do something I hadn't done in a while so I went back downstairs to the stretching area and did stability ball hamstring curls. These are great for both the hams and glutes and even better if done one-legged. However, I only did one set of one-legged curls as my hamstrings are killing me! I think I may have to run every other day for a while until my legs forgive me.

While breaking in-between sets this guy I'd seen there a few times before came over to me and said he was a software developer currently building a fitness app for smartphones...and wanted to know if I'd be interested in being one of the fitness models! How cool is that?! Now I'm not totally naive. I realize it could have been his no-balls way of getting my number but I think he was legit. Anyway, it wouldn't be until the Springtime so now I have a reason to get into rediculously good shape in the meantime!

By now my F-you-right-back (in the words of Frankee) attitude was fading as I had better things on my mind. Moving onto abs, I did four sets of 8 crunches on the stability ball (two front sets and two side-to-side) with a 10-lb. plate on my chest. Then, I finished off with more crunches on the incline crunch bench. No weights, just crunches until I couldn't crunch anymore!

So, alls well that ends well I suppose. I'm totally amping up my routine over the next few months in case this opportunity does follow through and if it doesn't, well its not like its going to hurt to have a stronger, tighter bod in time for bikini season!