i’m feeling a lot better since i was sick last week. i’ve been back to work a few days, my energy is back to normal, and the only thing i’m battling now is my blasted allergies. luckily the visit to the dr. last week for my cold landed me a script for allegra-d, which i’ve never used before but i’ve heard great things. anyhow, i got back into working out yesterday after a little over a week off. i’m behind in this challenge but if i can maintain my losses from last week i’ll be happy. i have a mental pre-wedding goal of being below 340. the last time i was there was december of 2000 and that was also the point where i was at my lowest weight since 1994. needless to say i’m really pushing myself to have a great week.


amy and i had a solid upper body workout this morning and cardio yesterday. we’re following a new routine of exercises that we both like, but they take a bit longer. almost every set now has an exercise that is on the free motion machines. the machines are cable weighted and you typically work out one body part at a time. so for shoulders you would do right arm up, then down, left arm up, then down for a single repetition; repeat that 12 times for a set. needless to say since we’re working out each chest, shoulder, back and bicep muscle independently the routine takes longer than normal. all in all i think it took us a little over 60 minutes to do upper body today.


chris didn’t make it to the gym again this morning. that makes one day in about 3 weeks now that he actully went. the one day was yesterday … hhehehhe. anyhow, after talking to him this morning it seems that he may soon be shutting his membership down. he didn’t say when, just that they were trying to save some money. i was a bit bummed, but now that i have amy to work out with i’ll be fine. not that i can’t work out alone, because i can. it’s just easier to get up with someone than going at it alone. amy starts school in june and i’m not sure if she’ll be into getting up early for the gym either. i guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. till then keep reaching for those 10’s !!