End of week 1

I made it through 'Friday fun day' yesterday... good kickboxing, first time I did roundhouses for power, felt great to kick the bag as hard as I could.  My right hip is kind of acting up so I was trying not to push what hurt... I really don't want to torque something that puts me out of commission at all.  There was another guy there so I had a partner on the bag which was good.  My core strength is better, I was able to plank better while 'resting' than I could Wednesday which is good.  Still failing, though... which ironically is also good.

Taking a step back, Thursday wound up being my cheat day.  The guy at Famous Daves (where I was at for work) bought me lunch... and they talked me into the bread pudding.  It's delicious... far too delicious.  I also went and weighed myself yesterday morning and was up 4 pounds.  Ironically, the white board at the gym advised us not to weigh ourselves and that the scale was the enemy... I need to stay away from it... focus on what I'm doing in the gym and the food regimen and not worry about my weight.

This morning (Saturday) was cool, the gym was full (only two classes on Saturday, I think) and Justin changed the music up, so we started out with AC/DC, had some Guns N Roses and similar tunes while working on strength.  Funny, at one point after doing squats and then burning out a focused quads exercise he said 'one more and we're done with legs'... then he paused and said 'well, done with quads anyway'.  DICK.  (not really)  Then donkey kicks and glutes... we finished with abductor and adductor (probably spelled wrong) workouts... I couldn't even use a yellow band for the last ones, lying on your side and lifting your straight leg up.  Apparently my legs are plenty heavy by themselves to make that a hard burn.  I could hardly walk to put the bands away when we were done... again, which is good.

My favorite exercise this morning was hammer curls... because we were lying flat on our backs doing curls with bands for resistance... all I could think was 'this feels so good to be lying flat on my back'.  I'm trying to focus on keeping my core flexed as much as possible, stuff I learned in physical therapy for when I blew my back out a couple of years ago... my lower back and abs really need the attention.  Those and my shoulders are my weakest areas... so far anyway, I'm sure they'll find some muscle group next week that I've never used.

All in all, it's been a good week.  Next week I have to travel for work which sucks big time, but I'll make the Monday morning class and I'll go to the 5:30 class Friday after getting back from Montreal.