Day 3 of July Challenge

I have to work tonight. I work part time at a local nursing home and I work basically every other weekend on the night shift. I have to work tonight because everyone is required to pull a holiday shift every year and 4th of July is the holiday I pulled. The good part is that my shift is the night BEFORE the holiday, so after a few hours of sleep we'll still have the rest of the day and evening to play.

The challenge is going well. Yesterday I did Krista's beginner lower body workout which consists of Squats, Straight Leg Dead Lifts, Calf Raises and Good Mornings. I did most of the exercises unweighted (not the dead lifts) and I am still sore as hell today.

Today I ran over to the gym and did Krista's beginner upper body workout (lat pull, shoulder press, 1 arm row and bench press) and then 30 minutes on the eliptical. My legs were able to workout some of the soreness and that felt good.

I've probably mentioned that I'm not a fan of the scale... it is a useful datapoint in a lot of ways, but right now I'm just being discouraged by it... so I'm going to forgo it for as long as possible. A set weight has never been my ultimate goal so much as a level of leanness and a level of fitness and since the scale will tell me neither of those it can go jump in the lake for now.

Posted by Lexy at July 3, 2007 01:34 PM