A lot of the cool blogs are filled with pictures...mine must be BORING! lol. Really though...I know I gotta get a camera - my current one is taking a bunch of blurry shots and it's so old that I might as well just buy a new one.
Anyway, my weekend was great - Brian finally had a couple days off after working 20 days in a row...and what did we do? Train at the gym! haha...yes, it's actually a way we spend time together. We don't train together often but it's nice when we get a chance. Our training styles are very different but we are such great motivators for each other. He does lower reps, heavy weight with a decent amount of rest, whereas I knock out twice the sets with very minimal rest and high reps. The reason we do this is because Brian is already very lean and is trying to build and maintain muscle whereas I need to fit in cardio whenever I can to help lean me out. So by keeping my heart rate up during my strength training, I can burn more calories. Does that make sense?
Right now I'm really motivated to rev up my cardio, which is miraculous cause I am not a fan of cardio. I'd much rather strength train but at this point, my body can afford to do just a couple days of strength training a week. My body type builds muscle very quickly...so what's happening is I keep building but not leaning out. This is where the cardio comes in...I gotta suck it up and get it done!
Just wanna give a shout out to my friend Lesley back home...she's been tearing up the roads with some huge cycling races lately and I'm so proud of her! :)
Holla! Yeah she was awesome on Sunday, she drug my ass the last 20km or so because I was hurting so bad. We both helped each other finish I think, the last bit is always more mental than physical, its so easy to quit at that point because people are standing around ready to take you to the finish line by vehicle if you want to stop.
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