Body Shop.. .

For all of my body shops this week I went to the gym with my mom.  It was so much fun to workout with her.  We encouraged each other to keep pressing on.  It was also quite funny because everything my mom does is hilarious.  Anyways……

First we did 30 min of strength including, arms, legs, abs.  There were machines in a circle around the room and each one was timed.  Once the light turned green it was time to start, when the light blinked it was time to move to the next workout.  At first I didn’t think that the time spent on each workout was enough but my body told me differently the next day.

To prepare for the leadership bike ride I decided to give the exercise bike a try.  I peddled two and a half miles.  This really gave my leg muscles a work.  I realized I probably should have been preparing for this a long time ago. 

While my mom went to do her red light therapy, I peddled some more and more and more.  I went another mile and a half before I called it quits.  I have to say that it is much easier to work out while listening to music or watching tv.  I guess it just gets your mind off the pain.

Running is my biggest struggle; it is the thing I hate to do the most.  If I had the choice of running or writing a paper, I would choose the paper, and I hate papers.  So despite what I want to do I did what I should do so. . .  I ran.  I must say running on the treadmill is not as horrible as normal running.  On the last physical fitness test my time was over 11 min.  I wanted to try to run 1 mile in under ten minutes. . .and I did it…Yay.  It was hard, but I’m still alive and that’s all that matters.

Including warm up cool down and stretching all of this adds up to about 2 hrs and 40 minutes.  With my remaining 20 minutes I did crunches, and arm workouts.