I swear I haven't purposely vanished! I just had a very busy couple of days and trust me, I'm mad at myself for not trying to muscle through and get my workouts done anyway, but I really don't think I could have handled it! Just not enough hours in the day I guess. I missed it though! Exercising makes me feel so good. Especially when it's hard and you get that burn. Pretty uncharacteristic for me, considering I'm the laziest person ever, but I really do love it. Except when I pull something and it actually hurts, hahaha.
So anyway, today I finally got back on track and did my Legs ("and Back", except I didn't actually do any of the pull ups...I don't have a pull up bar and somehow there's not a suitable one in the gym! I know, I know, excuses excuses. Whatever, I'll figure something out. Or just have a wimpy back, haha) and AB RIPPER X. No, I will never stop capitalizing it. The legs actually weren't too hard - I was definitely feeling the burn, and panting while I was doing it, but it never felt like it was something where I'd have to do less reps than they were doing in the video or anything. I guess that just goes to show that my legs really are the strongest muscles I have. Which makes sense, considering my main uh..."athletic activities" are biking, riding and now fencing I guess. All very reliant on having strong legs! I definitely want more muscle tone in them though, so I'm excited to stick with it and push myself a little further. I want to have serious quads! (I'm fixated on quads right now, I don't know what it is but I'm obsessed, hahaha). Maybe next week I'll go over to the gym to do it so I can add extra resistance with some dumbbells in my squats/lunges/calf raises/etc. Speaking of calf raises: OW!! But in the good way!! :) As for AB RIPPER X, I still can't keep pace with them very well, but it does seem a lot easier than it did as recently as a week ago - that's a good sign right?? I can totally believe that I'll be super ripped at the end of 90 days if I keep pushing myself.
And as for my horse show this weekend.....I wouldn't call it a total disaster, considering I was doing really well, but when I blew it, I blew it big time. I got all my leads, my position was great, I was keeping myself in the saddle perfectly (on Billy!! My "buddy" as Malinda called him), but I got cut off with nowhere to go, panicked, and while I was confused, he broke into the trot and I couldn't get him back together immediately (or until halfway around the ring....). It was pretty awful. But after that, on the second direction, I was right back to being a champ! Unfortunately it wasn't enough and I came in last. :( But hey, I have another pink ribbon and learned a valuable lesson, and other than my giant fuck-up I did well, so I'm optimistic!!!
Tomorrow: KENPO X! That should be...interesting.
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