W8 D4

Recovery: EAS Myoplex Lite
Breakfast: 1/2 cup Ezekiel Flax Cereal with 1/2 cup soy milk
Snacks: 1 handful of almonds
Lunch: 1 Spring Roll with peanut dipping sauce (Vietnamese- with noodels, shrimp and beef), Energy Vitamin Water
snack: other spring Roll with peanut dipping sauce (Vietnamese- with noodels, shrimp and beef), a handful of almonds, 1 prune, 1 sheet of nori
Dinner: Half a pear salad. 1/2 Sea bass filet with 3 bites of rice (was right at 7pm). 3 slider burgers, no cheese, no bun....lettuce, tomato, and onions

Amazing workout today.

Ran for about 20 minutes. Rudy seemed extra happy and smiley today. He was calling everyone out in a very nice way. It's cute how he has nicknames for some people. He called Nicole and Melanie the 'Dynamic Duo'. He calls saleem 'Major'. He calls Sydney 'Syd-money'. Peter is "Peter!". I got 'Arlenie'-- caught wind from Sheree that the origin of that is from Irenie on Pootie Tang! (MY sister, Alisa would get a KICK out of that one! if you haven't seen it, it's a silly movie) Cooled down and did killer sets. Everyone is 'Warrior'. :)

He made a new exercise for us today. I was tired when I started. We lunged back with the left leg, while raising the left arm with weight in hand, straight forward and and ending up above our heads-the right arm was out to the side for balance. We did this twenty times, switched sides and then maybe rested for 5 seconds and did it 10 time son each side and then rested a little bit again and then did it 10 times on each side again. I spoke to him after class and he said that he modified it from an exercise he saw on Oxana's website.

It really is true that we have more in us than we think, cause I can't believe I did it. It really gives real meaning to the Nike slogan 'Just Do It'. When we are in class, that is exactly the mindset I have to take on. Cliche, but true.

When Rudy called out for 100 bicep curls I slightly cried out aloud, "100?!" Good thing it wasn't too loud. I quickly swept away my bad attitude and slight anger/disbelief and well, I just did it. Rudy did a curl every second and I probably did 1 every 2-3 seconds. It was a challange, but it was really good. Again, just did it and can't believe that I did. We are learning mroe and more that we are indeed capable of more than we believe we are.

We did several sets of pushups, followed by rapid shado boxing, follwed by mountain climbers. I don't know exactly how many sets we did, but by the end, I was moving through molasses. the fastest my legs could go on the mountain climbers, was slow... which is a notch above super slow... After those sets, it was the first time, I collapsed my butt to the floor and really had to catch my breath before popping up. I usually make it a point to get up off the floor asap and be ready for the next exercise, but that one taxed me.

I liked it.