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Double Weight Day & Souper Supper

Double Weight Day It's a misty/foggy, chilly, gray day here today. It certainly made it that much harder getting up for work. Even harder knowing so many have the day off. Sigh. I was really feeling super lazy and contemplated making today a rest day. But I know that I'll want the rest day (need it) more later in the week. So I mustered up the energy and got in biceps and abs during lunch. Biceps was supposed to be 4 sets of 6 reps at 90% of 1RM. Dumbbell curls Hammer curls Concentration curls I had a pretty strong feeling workout and wish I could have adjusted the weights for hammer curls by 1 lb. I am finding it nearly impossible to get in a leg workout now with this new half marathon training . There just seems to be no ideal day. I have been doing legs on Monday the past couple of weeks though, so I decided to go with legs after work rather than doing any cardio. My legs were starting to feel a bit of fatigue after the weekend runs. Rather than going super heavy ...

Snow Day. Soup Day

Snow Day Workout Well, we got snow. And we got a 2-hour work delay this morning. That meant I was able to get in my leg workout first thing. I went with 3 sets of supersets plus some conditioning exercises. I did try to increase my weights from last week for many of the exercises: SS#1 Squats Plie squats SS#2 Step ups Deadlifts SS#3 Static lunges Calf raises Alternating squats with kick (16 total) Weighted plie hops -24 Firewalkers - 8 Weighted donkey kicks - 2x18 Roll-ins/hip lifts on ball Ghost Town at Work I got to work around 9:30. I let Jason drive us both in. And....there was no one there. It was a total ghost town. I did finally see one person in the hallway around 11:45. I swear there was a conspiracy this morning though. I forgot to change my password on Friday, that meant I was locked out of my computer this morning. Did I mention it was a ghost town? That meant I didn't get my new password for about an hour. Ahhhhh, good times. My boss told me to ...