Day 87 - Progress is great. I feel good, just like I should!

Yesterday's leg workout was a killer. Tony had me doing a lot of high reps. I have a love/hate relationship with high reps. I hate doing them but I love all I feel when it's over and the sense of accomplishment. Stepsups and lift lunges on the Smith Machine are the worst or best because they sure can work that butt and legs. I also did some Leg Presses and I was able to press 270 lbs which is a record for me.

I am really excited that this is a short week for me at work. I am taking Thursday, Friday and Monday off and we will be heading to South Beach Miami. We will be attending the Fitness Universe contest and that should be exciting. I will try to remember to take a lot of pictures to post on here.

Strange but true! I actually saw this woman (she was not a senior citizen) using the Leg Press Machine with 30 lbs and she was not pressing one leg at a time. How ridiculous was that? I really, really, really wanted to take a picture of her to post it but my gym recently banned cameras.

Another example of the myth that heavy weights will make you have big bulging muscles. Really though, 30 lbs on the leg press machine? This woman was also telling a trainer at the gym that she wanted to lose weight. The trainer told her that she didn't need to lose any weight, and he is absolutely correct since she is already thin. It is just terrible how society has just gone to extremes. There are so many obese people who need to lose weight and they are not, and then there are skinny people who just want to get thin an aneroxic looking. Where is the happy medium? Yesterday I saw a preview of some show on television (not sure what it was), maybe Oprah. The show was about a 10 year old who weighed over 400 lbs and how she lost 300 lbs. That's just crazy!