BodyPump: 7:30am-8:30am
Running: 5pm-5:30pm
Body Pump was tough in some areas and not too tough in others, but I left feeling pretty exhausted (in a good way). I've increased my weight through the chest track and while it's still difficult, it's not as hard when I first increased. I've increased for the squats and lunges track and supposedly, nobody likes those tracks because they're so hard, but I have a much easier time doing those tracks then shoulders, triceps and biceps. Maybe my lower body is a lot stronger than my upper body, or maybe it's just how we're built as females - everyone is always telling me that women's upper body strength is not as strong as their lower body.
I've checked my spreadsheet that I use to track my progress in Body Pump and in some areas I have tripled my weights (squats, lunges) and in other areas I have more than doubled (back & hamstrings, shoulders and chest) but it's those pesky arms (triceps and biceps) where I haven't progressed much. I suppose it's not entirely a bad thing since I don't want big bulky arms anyway, but when the rest of me is progressing and getting stronger, I can't help but get frustrated when another part of me isn't cooperating.
Running - My pal Anna Lee came by work before my meeting last night - she's been wanting to hook up for a run for a while and the evenings where I don't work late I just want to go home, so she suggested that we go one night before one of my meetings started. We had both worked out in the morning with weights (plus AL did 30 minutes on the bike) but the temperature was perfect last night (22 degrees at 5pm) so we threw on our runners and hit the busy streets of Toronto. Neither of us wore a watch and I left my pedometer at home, so we didn't really have any idea how long or how far we ran but when I left work later that night I checked the odometer on the car and did a rought guesstimate of the distance and it looks like covered about 6km, and it would appear that about 5km of that was running. I would say that we were out for about 45 minutes (5 minute warmup and 10 minute cool down) and the only time we stopped during our run was at the traffic lights (well, I stopped, AL ran on the spot). As we were finishing our run AL realized all of a sudden that I don't usually run my 30 minutes all at once (I do (3) 10 minute segments) and she was instantly apologetic but I was ecstatic because I ran for as long as I did and we seemed to find a pretty good pace that suited us both. We even tackled the stairs in behind the skydome, running up BOTH flights. It was a great run, I'm already looking forward to the next time we go out :).
First off, I love the new layout of this site. Secondly, I'm glad you were thrilled with yourself, cuz you should be. Thridly, how long do you normally break for between the 10 minute segments. And don't worry, we'll have ya running at stop lights in no time, if only to make me look less crazy/foolish:)
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