Big Muscles on Tuesday

Sorry this post is being added so late today, work has been piling up at my desk. Trying to get to work early so I can leave early for Physical Therapy has been tough. Tough on my beauty regime that is!

Today I slept in a bit, till about 5:25am, then headed off to the gym after my pre-workout snackie of a hard boiled egg + ice water. After a quick warm up on the elipitcal machine I headed into the free weight area for some upper body moves. I am gaining strenght, I can now curl 20lbs up to 12 reps on each side. I was getting so pumped that I didn't leave time to do any abs today. I will have to save that for later, after my dreaded "stretching" session tonight.

My PT doctor whom I will call "Dr. K" says I need to be doing stretches EVERYDAY. Not just yoga once per week. I have a "locked" pelvis and have limited range of motion in my lower half. If you want to know what that feels like I will tell you. ... It feels like my lower body is in a cage, I can only move so far and then my body says "nope" we don't go there. It is very frustrating and I am hoping to see some improvements soon. On Wednesday I am going to do some preformance testing to see where my muscles are strong and where they are weak. Then I will be working towards getting back to a normal range of motion and less stiffness and pain. I am going to show all those Yogis at Joy Yoga how good I REALLY am. LOL!

After workout breakfast today was a fried egg (in Pam) + a bowl of steel cut oats mixed with 1/2 cup of blueberrys + a splash of vanilla soy milk and a squirt of vanilla agave nectar. Good for the gut!

My snack today at 11:00am will be another Fage yougurt (full fat) with strawberry. I am delaying it since I did munch on some mixed nuts with sea salt at about 9:30am. Hey, I was hungry........