Week Three! Tuesday

Breakfast: 1 Banana and an Activia yogurt
Lunch: Stir Fresh: Tofu, Chicken, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, pineapple and noodles (more meat than noodles)
Snacks: Natural Almonds, Rice Cake
Dinner: Chicken Lettuce Wraps from 'West'

Darn my 'meeting' mode on my phone. I set it to meeting mode so it doesn't make a sound during my meetings at work, but if I don't take it off of meeting mode, my alarm doesn't make a sound either. I woke at 645am today. This means night class for me.

So today was Rudy's first day back after having to travel to support his brother Mike, in a fight. It was good to have our Rudy back. Sal 'whooped it on' for us, but like Rudy says, Rudy is Daddy. He comes home and we are glad, 'cause Sal was not sparing us any. He worked us hard! They're a great team :)

During our warm-up, Sal called us each aside to weigh us in. At first this took me aback because they said that we shouldn't look at the scale. It turns out that this is Euro's request (the ad agency doing the infomercial). We will do our weigh in and measurements etc... in a couple weeks as planned. Sal, said we shouldn't even look at the number, just hop on and hop off and get to working. I looked, I think I gained like 3 pounds! But, I am trusting and believing that that 3 lbs is muscle. Rudy said that muscle weighs about 3 or 4x's as much as fat. That is good news.

Okay, so steam engines. I think last time I said that they weren't so hard anymore. Try them for five minutes! My legs were moving through molasses by the end, but I really think that I am mentally better about things not being so long anymore and just continuing to move even if I think I cannot anymore. It doesn't seem to last as long.

One cool thing Rudy pointed out today was that, getting into shape isn't hard. You can pick one thing and just do it several times. He said that he did that with Kung Fu. He picked kicking and after awhile, he was great at it.

So we did a lot of that today. Endurance. We did the squat, lift, press for a minute straight and then we did something else, probably axe chopping and then we did the squat, lift, press about 50 times. Rudy and the boys can do it with Kegs. Yes, they actually have kegs at the school to lift. Interesting...

After the strength endurance exercises, we went to work out abs. I NEED to start doing that on my own because... well, it's just sad. The exercises he has us doing, I used to be pretty good at. I take little breaks, even though I really don't want to... I have to. So, I will add ab exercises to my pushups on off days to help out with that. At least from the grunts and groans that I was hearing in the room, I may not be the only person who needs to strengthen their core. If I can achieve the 'line' on my belly by end of week 12, I will be uber-stoked! I had that once, a long time ago. I'd like to have that back. No need for a pack of anything for me. I just want my line :)

Day off tomorrow. Maybe I can catch up on my reading :)