Go Where the Change Is

I love working out on Tuesday nights watching Biggest Loser. And I REALLY love feeling myself improve. I do abs work all the time. I've been doing 60 Russian Twists in three sets of 20, first with 15lbs then I progressed to 20lbs. Tonight I decided to go for 25lbs. I felt very balanced and I just kept going. And going and going. NINTY Russian Twists. I held my balance so well and I felt like I could just keep going! I had to reach that point where I feel like I have a strap super tight around my middle and it took more work to get there!

Not a lot you can do for your calves but calf raises. I stand on the base of my weight bench and I do calf raises until I feel like my leg is going to cramp up. Seriously, I push myself until I just about FALL OFF that base and have to limp away. I can remember when it took 15 reps with 15lbs to reach that point and the third set just about crippled me. Now I do 35 reps with 40lbs to get to where I just can't do even one more. I have seen my lower legs change. They will alway be disproportionately large; I have my grandmother's legs. But they ARE different.

Change happens in those reps that take the most effort. The ones that hurt the worst. I love that feeling of blowing past a point I've been. I don't mind having to work even harder and longer, it's a THRILL to feel myself performing at a level I knew I couldn't reach before.