Gettin' All James Brown in Here

I FEEL GOOD. I worked out SO HARD tonight and I feel so fantastic. I had this sense that I wanted to work my shoulders especially, really hard. I benched 35lb dumbbells and curled 20lbs--that's where I was before my time off. I felt very high energy and very strong; I gave each exercise the hardest pump I could! Did calf raises until I was damn near screamin' in pain! Loved it. Did my favorite Swiss ball crunches off the wall---and couldn't get them to hurt!. I did 10. Then 15. Went to TWENTY. How can I be doing that? Clearly I need to find more challenging abs work to do! So I set up my chinning bar to hold while doing reverse crunches on the Swiss ball. That is a very difficult exercise to do correctly. I will certainly keep working at that one. I modify bicycle crunches a bit to make them hurt more. I balance myself on my tail bone and keep my lower legs parallel to the floor while twisting forward. I can start to feel that one pretty good by about the 15th rep. I also did crunches with my legs lifted on the Bosu.

It feels so good to be back working really REALLY hard! Still not sure why I woke up Wednesday feeling very eager to do a workout first thing! I haven't felt that again and didn't work out Thursday or Friday morning. I missed doing the Shred completely on Thursday as I ended up staying at work late and then something I ate that evening made me nauseous. Back at it on Friday after work. I'll be out all day tomorrow; I'll certainly plan to get in a workout before I head out but it won't be at 4:30AM!