Session #10

[lynn]

Awesome upper body workout today. My arm muscles are so exhausted, I can't flex my bicep. Truly. My arms, shoulders and back are going to be in so much PAIN tomorrow.

After doing all sorts of torturous upperbody strength exercises, we did these killer bicep curls and shoulder presses with a barbell and nearly dying- DYING! he put me on the incline board and picked up two little 5-lb dumbbells. "Ah," I sighed in relief, "look at the cute little things," and groaned and nearly dropped it when he put the first one in my left hand.

We both laughed so hard, I almost couldn't do the curls.

When I stood up I admired my triceps in the big mirror (because I haven't been able to stop doing that). "Oh!" said Mr. W., "let's do some triceps too then!"

"but haven't I already worked my triceps enough doing the other upper body exercises?" I asked hopefully.

"A little..."

So we did tricep curls. God. In the middle of this my legs and abs are still hurting. "You know," I said, "I kind of expected things would stop hurting after awhile but now I'm thinking they'll never stop hurting."

"That's the idea, keep building and building and always change it up so your muscles don't get complacent." Argh.

And then tricep dips. And that finished me off. During my last set I reached my limit, having lowered myself, the harder I tried to lift myself back up, the lower I went until I fell on my bottom.

Mr. W laughed and pointed out that my arm muscles were entirely depleted. He put me on the bike to cool down for the next ten minutes and talked. I couldn't even lean on the handlebars. I sat upright on his very uncomfortable spin bike seat and listened.

After reading my diet for the past two weeks, he wants me to do a detox.

So after I left, I headed to a natural foods place near to downtown. After staring at the TMI boxes for 3 minutes (reading the backs were very hard as I couldn't really hold anything up for very long), I asked for assistance. I was too light-headed to be embarassed.

"Okay, my PT wants me to do a detox and I know nothing about these things so naturally I'm thinking of getting the most expensive one."

The assistant laughed, "this one is really good," she said handing me a box, "don't eat any fried foods on it and drink plenty of water."

Plus I had a Sunshine Card which got me about five dollars off the cost of the box- which was already $20 cheaper than the one I started to buy originally.

I'm starting it on Sunday and will try to give an accurate report of how it goes without getting gross or anything.



(Wut's going on with that bunny's head?)

Comments

[aislingfaye]

Yeah, I wonder what is up with the bunny... it's like it's wearing a little hat with poms on it. Heh!

Detox... ick. Christopher had been wanting to go on a vegan Raw diet for a while. I finally agreed. During the first week, and I was happy. We would devour salads and fruit and just enjoy ourselves and felt good.

At the end of the week, I was so incredibly sick for a day or so that I can't even look at the raw books without wanting to upchuck immediately. I can't do them at all... not sure I would ever do a detox diet either. Ick! McDougall I would do... I'd throw in some light eating -- as healthy as I could, even fast a day... but full blown detox or raw vegan? Never again... my system just can't take it sadly :( Good luck with it and I hope it works great for you! Looking forward to seeing how it works out.

And wow... my arms hurt just reading about your Adventures. Heheh!

[aislingfaye]

And this was a year or two ago, the raw diet thing, btw.... it probably sounded fairly recent the way I worded it.

[lynn]

well, it's not really drastic- it's a 14-day program and it suggests you eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs, well-cooked grains (not wheat or rice, so much), almonds and seeds (I love almonds), butter and essential oils are okay. Fish and chicken too. So it's not very strict and it's supposed to be organic and gentle. We'll see how that works. I'm actually looking forward to it- I do feel kind of toxic lately.

I have a friend on lj who's doing raw food with her partner and they're really taking to it. I think it sounds like a hassle.

[aislingfaye]

That actually sounds great! The word "detox" makes me think of people trying to errm... well... flush their systems to put it mildly heheh. That just sounds like a decent healthy way to eat light. Gentle is VERY good, especially when one is working out like you are.

I do know what you mean though... I really need to fine tune our menus. I'm still getting too much crap in there -- and it's too hot to be eating heavy or like crap. Ugh.

[lynn]

Amen sister, about the heat! When it's this hot, it seems almost everything I eat that's been processed in any way just sits in my tummy like a heavy, hard ball.

I tried to be kind of bad today (eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we detox) but I just didn't have the appetite for it, worse luck.

[aislingfaye]

Since hitting the gym, the last few times I just have not had the taste to drink too much. A week or two ago, Christopher and I went to a pub in Grapevine for a few drinks. I had a Guinness and a few sips of his whisky. Today, I had one and a half gin martinis and it was heavy on my tummy and I probably shouldn't have even bothered with the half, much less even a full drink. I have the opportunity to drink tomorrow, but I will stick to water since I'll be outside in the heat for a few hours. Even still, I just am not in the mood for alcohol right now (I've been cutting back on my tea, so I've been doing very well trying to drink more water and less of Other Things -- I still need to drink more water, though).

Sometimes even the healthiest (and any other time of the year, incredibly yummy) foods still feel a bit icky on my stomach when it gets hot. Water is awful, too, when it's that hot... I try to make sure I drink water between meals and at meals and it's especially such an effort to drink water with meals right now. Ick!

Boo for hot temps!