Rest Day and more Dental Joy

Today I go to the dentist again to get fitted for my crown. I hate that I will have a "fake tooth" in my mouth now, but there is no getting around it, so in I go to sit for another hour and a half with my jaw stretched open with people poking and prodding until I am choking on my own saliva... (can you tell how thoroughly excited I am about this?)

So due to scheduling conflicts it seems that today will have to be a rest day which is fine because yesterday's leg workout in Bootcamp has my quads tight and screaming today... I was doing deep squats with the 25s (holding them up at my shoulders) and then we did top half and bottom half squats with the same weights... if you've never done these and are looking for a new challenge for your legs here's a quick description:

Top half are pretty easy - hold your dbs up at your shoulders as if you were holding a bar instead of dbs and only squat about half as far as you would for a full squat, return to standing, repeat. Pause at the top and bottom of each half squat for a good challenge

Bottom halfs are the killers - hold your dbs up at your shoulders as if you were holding a bar instead of dbs and squat all the way down for a full squat, but only return to the half way up point and then go back down.... pause at the top and bottom of each half sqat... I dare ya!

If you can do fulls, tops, bottoms and then a final set of fulls you've got more endurance in your legs than I do. I crapped out in the middle of the last set of fulls and just couldn't do anymore... the burning and shaking was intense.

Alissa has invited me on a 7miler on saturday tho, which I'm trying to work into my weekend schedule. 7 miles is almost a mile further than I've ever run before (10k or 6.2 is my top distance so far) but with Alissa it would be fun I think! I am going to try really hard to work it out because I know it would be a challenge... and I've been looking for some of those lately!

Oh... and some casual (ie. unflexed and just sorta normal) Bikini pictures are in the works... I've got some photoshoping to do (croping, not airbrushing, I promise!!) but hopefully I can get it taken care of this weekend. We'll see.

Posted by Lexy at June 10, 2004 09:14 AM