M2 Tuesday

Recovery: 1/4 Peanut Butter Sandwich and 3/4 Muscle Milk
Breakfast: 3 eggwhite omelette (the cook dropped 1 egg yolk in... aw well) with spinach, tomatoe and onion
Snack: Two Celery Stalks with peanut butter
Lunch:1/2 Shrimp Vermicelli with lettuce, cucumbers, and bean sprouts
Snack: other half of my lunch
Dinner: I broke my no carbs after 7 rule because my sister is in town from Switzerland tonight and she made us Thai dinner... it wasn't ready until about 730 or so... so I had a small serving of Shrimp Pad thai (2 shrimp for me) and a small serving of green curry chicken with this cute thai squash that looks like baby watermelons. I made sure my portion was small...I imagined that I could squish it in a mug size portion. I did ok.

We started out with running in the parking lot again today. It was a little chilly. I've been wearing a tank top to workout recently because I always end up pulling up my sleeves during the workouts, when I wear a t-shirt. In the mornings though, it is a little chilly. I have considered starting with a jacket, but as soon as we start to move, I am drenched in sweat.

Speaking of drenched in sweat...

When we circled up, Rudy had us do many killer moves, among them were these KILLER leg lifts at an amazing pace. So we did 20 straight forward kicks, alternating each leg, then we widened our stance and kicked out 45 degrees from our body - again alternating legs-, THEN we kicked straight out to the sides (toes up!) 20 times, alternating each leg. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! I felt like a clown, a totally uncoordinated, grunting clown... then after my hip flexors were burnin! That was kind of cool actually. I do like that feeling. I felt better though cause I was working out next to Angela, who is super at all the exercies, and even she seemed little daunted at those leg kick exercises. At least my flexibility for kicks is still decent... Margaret asked me when I 'started working in Vegas', I was very confused and then I realized she was complimenting my kicks.

After all that, we were headed into the spinning room. I knew right away what I was going to do this time... yup... the handbikes. The time had come! My legs were not going to survive and I missed out on the killer arms workout yesterday am, so it was time. I was realy intimidated by the bike, but now that I am through, I kind of liked it. Nicole had already been on the handbikes, so it was a helpful tip from her to just crank it 1/2 a turn for every regular bike full turn. I felt lame at first because as it got hard, I had to use my entire body to move the wheel. Rudy later told met that that was actually good. I guess I felt lame because my arms are so weak... but they are getting stronger each time we work! I think I want to try it again so I can strengthen my arms a bit. I encourage anyone who hasn't yet to try it.