Training March 5
Run: 3 miles
Weights: Upper Body, Pull day

Thanks for all of the helpful suggestions you guys! My mission this weekend is at least two new bras.

So I realized I probably oughta explain my whole lifting "push day/pull day" thing. If you're a reader of Oxygen magazine, you probably know what I'm talking about, but if not, here goes.

In their February issue, they featured a training program that isolated not only certain muscles, but also the manner in which you perform the exercises. So on a push day, I perform upper body moves that have me pushing the weight away from me - chest presses, flys, tricep kickbacks, etc. - and on a pull day, it's moves that have me pulling the weight towards me - rows, bicep curls, dead lifts, etc. - and you do each on separate days. There also is a lower body section - squats, lunges, other horrible things - that is responsible for all of the hobbling I've been doing as of late.

Each move is done with a heavier weight, 15 reps, two times. I don't know - really, I don't - if it's helping that much yet but I really am hoping that I'll start seeing some results soon. When you're buried underneath all of this clothing day in, day out, stupid winter, it's tough to get a gauge.

I know there are probably more intense, more ideal programs but this has kept me lifting this season, which is more than I could have said before. After next week, I plan on kicking it up a bit, perhaps going back to an old routine I used and loved. For now, this is working in that it has me picking up weights.

Baby steps. Baby steps.

Posted by Erin at 12:35 PM | filed under: Random