Stayed after school today and moved desks for an hour and a half- carried them upstairs, downstairs, down the hall, across the school. That was a freaking workout in itself! Got home from nursing home run too late to comfortably go to the gym, so I hit up Putnam Park again.

Pushed myself particularly hard and got 320 calories in 35 minutes. WOOHOO!! I beat my total yesterday in the same amount of time. I am really digging this route, so I think I will stick with it for a bit.

My Uncle was discharged from the nursing home and within a week was re-admitted to the hospital. My Aunt is being kicked out after a mere 2 weeks there. They are letting her stay there 3 extra days.. She comes home on Sunday, wheresa my Uncle comes home today. Oy, so much freaking crap.

CT nursing home done, onto NY nursing home.

Went for a hike around Putnam Park. Pretty good paved trail complete with hills and dips. Once you reach the end, if you reverse your direction, it's like 1000 times worse! I grabbed a little paper guide map thing that most parks have- looks like there are some unpaved trails. I will hunt them down another time.

35 minutes- 293 calories. I jogged as much as I could- next time, I want to push it even more.

My parents recently got a new car, and in switching around cars, my Dad found a seat belt extender that they needed to buy so I could be properly restrained. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but looking back, I wonder how I didn't see it. I needed the extender and it was still tight on me. Blah. My Dad gave it to me to put with my "big girl" pants. You guys know the story of the pants.. Size 32. Another "WTF, Jess?!" moment. Didn't I see that something was screwed up when I had to go to multiple states to find dressy pants? Didn't I see that the 32's were tight? Oh well, that's the past, and I can't focus on that. I also can't forget it.

Had to miss yesterday- my class is KILLING me. 7 hours on ONE assignment. For those of you who know my gripe with her- it's even worse when you deal with her for the entire semester. Oy. Anyway.

Conditioning- Only did 20 minutes.

Busted my tush with training today. Worked on the new routine- went ok. However, I really wanted to do the BOSU squats, but the other trainer was using it and I was too chicken to ask to use it.

Plie Squats- 3 sets x 15 reps x 35 lbs
1 set x 15 reps x 40 lbs

Seated Leg Curl: 2 sets x 12 reps x 70 lbs
2 sets x 12 reps x 75 lbs

Romanian Deadlifts: 2 sets x 12 reps x 35 lbs
2 sets x 12 reps x 40 lbs

Had to substitute and I didn't have the list with me, so I went for:

Leg Extensions: 2 sets x 12 reps x 55 lbs
1 set x 12 reps x 60 lbs

Ab Machine: 4 sets x 12 reps x 50 lbs

Stretching, rolling, etc.

Spent hours upon hours walking at the Big E. Good times and interesting times. It was my cheat meal, so I walked in prepared to go crazy at every food stand that I found. After watching the people around me eating, I suddenly started to realize I didn't want to engage in that- I didn't need to. I went up to many stands, waited on line and at the last minute, backed out.

I ended up getting a corn dog (the small one- I couldn't rationalize eating a 16" hot dog.), a Del's Lemon drink thing (OHMIGOD, heaven. I usually get a little one in RI with Jac as a cheat.. However, I went full out and got a "regular" sized one!). What else did I have..? 4 boneless buffalo wings and a Dunkin Donuts hot chocolate. My Mom bought a mondo half sour pickle, and I took bites of that- I did eat gobs of the pickled garlic that was stuck to it. Jac and Mom split a bag of clam cakes.. I had literally 3 or 4 little fritters. And that was really it! I totally wanted to eat everything in sight.. I thought I handled it very well.. At least we did a lot of walking- not enough to counteract the food, but enough to make me think I was doing something good ;)

Squeezed in conditioning before meeting with Sean today- 100 calories on the strange cloud-walker type machine. Trained with Sean.. Kinda bummed that I didn't do better, but I did my best!

With Sean and Theresa's support, I am going to try a new nutritionist. Let's cross our fingers- something has GOT to help!

Even though my legs were killing me, I decided to do hills in my backyard. The hill isn't anywhere near intense as the ones near the track, but they were bad! 20 minutes, 162 calories. I wasn't running them- however- I worked up a good sweat and got nice and red.

I did train today. I will start my new routine on Monday.

Pull ups: 3 x 12 (HARD!)

Dbell row: 3 sets x 12 x 25 lbs

Chest press machine: 12 x 15 lbs
12 x 30 lbs
12 x 35 lbs

Deadlifts: 12 x 30 lbs
12 x 35 lbs
12 x 40 lbs

Split squats: 3 sets x 10 x 15 lbs

....At least my upper body doesnt hurt any more ;)

Man, 2 little weeks can make a huge difference in strength training! I trained on Monday with Sean and then again today. Not to complain, but holy hell, I am sore! I hadn't recovered from Monday but figured that I could handle it. I had to put forth a LOT of effort. Ah well, got done what I needed to do :) Tomorrow is going to be interesting, although I am hoping less ouchy.

Foam roller, stretching, etc

Lat pull down: 15 x 55 lbs
15 x 60 lbs
15 x 60 lbs

Seated row: 3 sets x 15 x 40 lbs

Overhead machine press: 15 x 10 lbs
15 x 12.5 lbs
15 x 15 lbs

Ab machine: 3 sets x 15 x 55 lbs

Squats: 3 sets x 15 x 15 lbs

Bicep curls: 15 x 10 lbs
15 x 10 lbs
15 x 15 lbs (not a smart move!)

Tricep extension: 3 sets x 15 x 10 lbs

Back in the saddle again!

Chest is super sore from working with Sean yesterday- it is kinda comforting to be sore again.. If that makes any sense.

I walked around the industrial park near Bethel Health Care today instead of doing conditioning at the gym. 36 minutes, 244 calories. I would have liked to walk/jog more, but I was walking with my Mom.. Enough said! On Thursday, I think I am going to go outside for conditioning again. Not sure if I will hit up Huntington.. I might go to Putnam instead. We'll see what the weather holds for us.

Alrighty, off to do school work.