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Back to the fun stuff!
Workout
Today’s workout had me pumpin’ some iron!
I seriously love strength training. It is so much more entertaining than cardio for me and I love feeling my muscles scream back at me. It’s hard to believe I used to be a cardio queen.
I did 25 minutes of cardio on the elliptical before heading into the weight room to complete three sets of 15 repetitions of the following exercises:
- Leg extensions
- Leg press
- Incline bicep curls
- Front shoulder raises
- Tricep dips
- Deadlifts
- One-legged leg extensions
- Bridges (aka the most awkward move at the gym)
- Tricep pull-downs
- Overhead press
- 60 second plank
- Crunches
It was a doozie! I typically hate working out my legs (I’m such a baby when it comes to squats and lunges), but after nearly a week of no leg extensions, leg presses or heavy-weighted squats, it felt good to work ‘em out again.
Exposed
I actually have a little story to share with you guys about an exposing event that happened during my workout today.
Hiney exposure. (Y) <—It’s a hiney! Haha! (I swear I’m 26.)
Anyway, as I sat on the leg extension machine, I scooted my butt back, but my shorts and legs were so sweaty that my shorts stayed in place while my body kept moving.
In other words, the guy sitting on the leg press machine behind me got an eyeful of tooshie.
And I was totally wearing my “Sexy Little Bride” underwear that I got during my bachelorette party.
I’m just hoping my pants weren’t down long enough for him to read anything.
Lunch? Snack? Eat Everything in Sight?
I would take you though my lunch today, but I ate just about everything in sight standing up in the kitchen like a maniac and didn’t snap any photos because I’m pretty sure three handfuls of blueberries, a couple servings of pretzel thins and crab dip and half a box of Junior Mints from the freezer (they’re so good cold) were consumed in 0.5 seconds. Ooph.
And then there was this:
Hey, at least I used a spoon, right?
Today is definitely one of those days where I feel like I can eat everything in sight and still not feel full. It’s a bottomless pit kind of day. Hoping my appetite and normal hunger cues return to normal by dinner time, otherwise I may be raiding Ryan’s mom’s pantry of all of her ice animal crackers when we arrive in Sarasota tonight.
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I hate days like that; where I can’t get “full,” not days where my pants fall down — I haven’t had one of those… yet!
I had to add to your butt!!
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Now it has a waist too!!
Oh! it didn’t turn out when I posted. Add a couple spaces to the top line and it’s pretty cute!
It’s funny to think I used to hate weight training! I haven’t been able to do it properly for the last 2 weeks properly and I am SO looking forward to getting back into my regular lifting routine on Monday.
I always feel “exposed” when I’m doing the hip abductor machine aka: the “gyno” machine ( as my friends and I call it). Running shorts + abducter machine just don’t mix.
Also, snacky days definitely happen more when I am in my mom’s kitchen!
Ah hollow days are the worst! I learned that saying from The Hunger Games series 🙂 So good if you haven’t read them yet ha!
But sounds like a great gym ses workout! You make me want a membership at the YMCA but I’ll just stick with my at home bodyrock.tv workouts and running for now. I have the college gym (community college) for when I really want some strength training lol.
I remember the days, pre-pregnancy, when I still fit into my bride undies! *sigh*…lol.
i love and hate bottomless pit days simultaneously. at least you never get that super icky full feeling (at least i don’t) and can just keep eating!
I’m so glad you mentioned being exposed! I had been meaning to ask (without sounding like a creeper or anything) if you typically wear undies under workout shorts that come with that built-in underwear looking piece.. Haha 🙂 I’m so new to these high-tech running clothes!
I eat lunch standing up all the time… just snacking on a little bit of everything. It’s the best lunch when your being indecisive!
I know why you’re hungry today…because of all the strength training you did! When I life weights, I’m starving that day. It’s because it puts your metabolism on fiya 🙂 Gotta love the weights!
Hahah thanks for having the guts to share your workout exposure story! It reminds me of one of those “Traumarama” stories that they used to have in the back of Seventeen magazine 🙂
I also clicked through to your linked post with tips to beginning strength training, and I just want to say that I appreciate you sharing advice for real people like that and putting it in understandable terms! I’ve been interested in yet totally ignorant of how to start strength training, and that post will definitely help.
Todays a bottomless pit kind of day for me too. Definitely annhiliated about 20 handfuls of popcorn, m&ms and trail mix…BEFORE eating my entire dinner. Oops 🙂
I’ve been a bottomless pit of BUYING food today, luckily have kept myself busy enough to avoid eating it all…. but when I end up in Trader Joes… I just can’t stop myself!
Hilarious! Oh, how I’ve had those moments. I got a personal trainer for 10 weeks a few years back and as she was stretching me out after one particularly schweaty workout, she had me scoot back on the mat so I could do a new stretch — and OFF came the shorts! If I hadn’t been wearing my little compression shorts underneath, that would have been baaaaaad.
I guess on a positive note, my face was already red!! I just swiped ’em back up where they belong and went back to work (with my trainer – a chick- snorting and giggling for the rest of the time).
ah what a bummer about the exposure! I think the worst that’s happened to me is just a really obvious wedgy that you could see through my pants. I definiely know what you mean by those times where you just graze through all sorts of kitchen goods.Definitely happened to me last night.
I eat like a man after I lift. LoL
I love the exposed story – I feel like things like that happen to me all the time. Meh, oh well.
I love/hate days that I feel like I could eat the entire world!
Oh my gosh, I love that that story is bad enough, but that you were also wearing those panties! Stuff like that happens to me all the time. I wore workout pants the other day that I thought were good to go, turns out you could see my brightly striped panties through them, no wonder I was getting looks…
I have those same undies but in white! haha. And still wear mine too 😉
I love frozen Junior Mints!
Hahaha, at least the undies stayed on! 🙂
I’m not a fan of lungs and squats either – all through high school my volleyball coach made us do laps of lunges all around the gym, so now I dread them. But I know they are good for me, so I try to distract myself by doing compound moves instead of just a gazillion lunges alone.
Bottomless pit days = that time of the month…for me anyways! I just can’t seem to be satisfied!!!
I’ve been a bottomless pit the past few days (thank you hormones), but the problem is, I crave sugar and white carbs during these days. I totally forget about veggies and fruits, which is what I want every other day of the month. At least you got some good stuff in and didn’t just eat cookies like me.
i thought i recognized that post yesterday!thats hilarious about the gym though, better that than in some sort off formal public place!
ya, tossing around the big weights will def set that metabolism on overdrive…workout hard, eat hard, right?!? 😉
on a slightly random note, i’ve been doing a funny little running/froyo themed fairy tale with some bloggers as characters (i really hope this doesn’t come off sounding really just weird and creepy!!) and u and sadie take part in the fun for the third installment, if u care to take a look. 🙂
Mmmmmm! Iced animal crackers were my ultimate fave when I was little! And now!
Oh no! That would definitely be embarrassing. Then again, it could have been worse. You could have been commando….one reason I NEVER go commando lol.
This post made me laugh!
Aren’t those uncomfortable to wear when you work out? I have those undies in blue and I hardly ever wear them because I’m afraid the jewels will leave little imprints in my dresses 🙂
Looks like a tiring strength work out!
It’s okay…I just exposed full boob in the pool. Hopefully none of my neighbors were outside. I didn’t have the guts to look and see if they were. I just discreetly placed my boob back in it’s suit and decided it was time to get ready to do some work.
Happy Saturday!
Julie!
You are MIA this morning!
I need my daily dose of PBFINGERS!
Hahaha! Your story is TOO funny! I guess that’s one benefit of going to an all womens’ gym. I definitely identify with those bottomless pit days…we’ve all been there!