Week In Review

Weight wise, this week was not eventful at all.  I did a whole lot of nothing.  So, my goal for this week is to get back to tracking my food and counting calories every day.  It's worked in the past, so I'm sure that's what I need to do to kick start my weight loss again.

I did, however, have a kick ass workout that I want to brag about.  After a week of having to cancel my sessions because I couldn't sleep and wasn't able to wake up at 5:00 a.m., I had a make-up training session yesterday.  Let me back-up a minute to say that my ego took a little hit on Friday morning, so I was determined to work hard at my training.  And, I did.  I rocked out 3 sets of 15 of everything he threw at me.

When it came time to do my dead lifts, we started out "light" at 95 pounds and I did my first set of 15.  He threw on another 10 pounds and I did my second set of 15.  He then asked if I wanted more weight thrown on.  Before I had time to think about it, I told him yes.  On went another 10 pounds... 115 lbs. in all.  That's the most I've ever dead lifted.  It was heavy and I made sure he was very close in case I couldn't lift it.  But, I did!  And I did 15 more dead lifts.  Then we went on to planks...

I'm holding my plank for a while when he tells me I can stop.  I don't know how long it was, but he started counting down "5... 4... 3... 2... 1..." But, I told him I had more.  I could keep going.  So, I did.  He adjusts my position a little bit to make it a little more difficult, then he watches the clock.  "That's a minute. Do you have more?"  Yep, I've got more.  I hold it for another 12 seconds before my knees hit the ground.  I'm not positive, but I don't think I've ever held a plank for over a minute before.  Although he was impressed by how long I held it, he determined that it was too easy.  So, my next one was more difficult.  My feet were no longer on the ground, they were on a barbell with weights, so it was not at all stable.  Not only was it unstable, but after a few seconds, I feel him pulling backwards on the bar.  So, not only am I having to hold my plank, I'm having to fight to keep my form as he's slowly pulling it away from me.  Needless to say, I didn't hold that for quite as long!  I do one more of those to finish off the session.

Now, it's not very often that I feel proud about something like that.  I normally assume that if I can do it, anyone can do it.  But yesterday, I was damn proud! That's stuff I'd never done before.  I left that session feeling super pumped and I can't wait until tomorrow morning to try it again!  I hope everyone else has a fabulous week!