Workout (Weights)
BodyPump: 7:30am-8:30am
I had a chat with Instructor B about my frustration with the slow progress in increasing my upper body weights in comparison to my lower body and she pointed out what should have been obvious to me (especially since Tay and I spent Monday afternoon at the Bodies exhibition at Tropicana looking at various cross sections of the human body, which included the various muscle groups) - that the muscles in your legs are considerably larger than the much smaller muscles that make up the muscles in your arms. She pointed to her biceps and triceps and then to her thighs and then asked me if I really thought that I could expect the tiny arm muscles to lift the same amount of weight as the lower.
And I replied no, THAT made sense but that I really wanted my upper body to make as much progress as my lower body has been - and just as fast. Again B was patient with me, explaining that smaller muscles aren't going to progress as fast as big muscles because they just don't have the same strength and power behind them. Her lecture convinced me to give my upperbody muscles a break, and to take it a little easy. So biceps and triceps got off easy. Chest and shoudlers not so much - in fact, after the shoulder track I wanted to puke but as Instructor J has told me, wanting to puke during a workout means you're working EXTRA hard.
Oh yeah, and we did lots of pushups during the shoulder track, and guess what? I'm starting to LIKE pushups - now if only I could do them on my toes instead of just on my knees like I've been doing :).
BodyPump: 7:30am-8:30am
I had a chat with Instructor B about my frustration with the slow progress in increasing my upper body weights in comparison to my lower body and she pointed out what should have been obvious to me (especially since Tay and I spent Monday afternoon at the Bodies exhibition at Tropicana looking at various cross sections of the human body, which included the various muscle groups) - that the muscles in your legs are considerably larger than the much smaller muscles that make up the muscles in your arms. She pointed to her biceps and triceps and then to her thighs and then asked me if I really thought that I could expect the tiny arm muscles to lift the same amount of weight as the lower.
And I replied no, THAT made sense but that I really wanted my upper body to make as much progress as my lower body has been - and just as fast. Again B was patient with me, explaining that smaller muscles aren't going to progress as fast as big muscles because they just don't have the same strength and power behind them. Her lecture convinced me to give my upperbody muscles a break, and to take it a little easy. So biceps and triceps got off easy. Chest and shoudlers not so much - in fact, after the shoulder track I wanted to puke but as Instructor J has told me, wanting to puke during a workout means you're working EXTRA hard.
Oh yeah, and we did lots of pushups during the shoulder track, and guess what? I'm starting to LIKE pushups - now if only I could do them on my toes instead of just on my knees like I've been doing :).
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