Day 7

Day 7

One week into it! What? Who would-a thought? By the way, I am still so sore from Zane's workout on day 5. It's mostly my abs, since I hadn't worked on them in forever. Zane says that the first time is the worst and that after my next ab workout it won't hurt very much... at least not if I do it soon and don't wait forever.

Had a smoothie for breakfast and used up the last of my frozen mango. (BUT that's ok because we bought a carton of 12 mangoes from a vendor on Kedzie! So I just cut up half of them and stuck them in the freezer for more smoothie fun.) Had a bagel from a bhen we met near Devon and then part of Zane's sandwich and a cookie after service. Before dinner had a string cheese and grapes, and a frozen fudge bar.

Went to the gym and worked on my biceps and triceps. Hopefully I won't be very sore because 1) this is the second time I've worked them out since I started, 2) I stretched afterwards and 3) I did hot/cold/hot/cold on them in the shower right afterwards. Zane learned that trick in a fitness magazine and it works! What ever muscles you work out, in the shower afterwards you put the water on them as cold as you can stand for 30 seconds, then as hot as you can stand 2 minutes. Repeat. Do it like 4 or 5 times. What happens is when it's cold your blood vessels contract, but when it's hot they expand and flush out the stuff in your muscles that makes you sore. (Lactic acid?) I also ran on the treadmill for a while. It was weird, I actually felt like a brisk run! I did intervals of 2 min running and 1:30 walking for 20 minutes total.

After the gym I ate an orange at home. :)

33 Days to go!