Day Seventy-Three- What Was I Thinking? Body Pump?

With this day to a close, it has been a real interesting day. After talking to my sister-in-law and hearing about how her Body Pump class went, I decided to wait the entire day to go to the class in the evening. At first, I thought I could do the 11:00 am class, but thinking about it more, I decided that since it was my first class, I would rather take the class at 5:30 pm so that all I have to do is go home, have dinner & pass out!

I went into work and got a lot of things done, then I went to pick up the kids from school & headed home. I was pretty smart and got a sitter, so that the kids didn't have to sit at the YMCA, waiting for me to get done and get home and get dinner. It wouldn't be until around 7:30 pm before we got home and got dinner started & their bedtime was at 7:30 pm.

When the sitter got to the house, I grabbed my gym bag and headed out the door. I headed straight to the gym, and got ready for Body Pump. Now, if you remember reading in my first blog entry, I am the type of person that keeps things to myself, so in this class, I am more comfortable staying in the back, as far away from the front as possible. But instead, when I walked into the class, I obviously had an imaginary neon sign above my head that said "NEWBIE!!!" The instructor, made me set up right at front. GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My butt got handed to me!!! Those exercises kicked my butt!!!! We worked ever muscle in my body, especially muscles that I don't think I knew I had. I was sweating like crazy & my muscles were shaking trying to lift weights, go into push-up positions and doing planks. But, I made it through it. I pushed through, until at least some of the exercises aggravated my shoulder. And I also made sure while doing those exercises that my core stayed tight. When I got done & home & took a shower, my stomach was killing me. I didn't think it would do so much on my core that it did.

Here is my food journal entry for today:

Breakfast- 8:30 am
Cajun Chicken Biscuit
Hashbrowns
Water/Coffee

Snack- 10:30 am
Almonds
Water

Lunch- 1:00 pm
Leftover BBQ Shredded Chicken Sandwich
BLT Salad
Water

Dinner- 8:00 pm
Penne Vodka
Fresca Salad w/ Grilled Salmon
Water

Tomorrow is my one-on-one with Renee. I am hoping that my muscles aren't to bad to meet with her, but I know they are going to shake like crazy when I am done with her. Wish me luck!!!