ArmdandFabulous’s BodyBlog

I still can’t do cardio because of my knee, so I decided to make tonight abs night…I usually never work abs…I’m not obsessed with abs like everyone else, so I haven’t paid them any attention really…well, I take that back…a few months ago I tried to add abs to my workouts and that lasted about 2 weeks…so I am going to try to start working them consistently now…

…after abs, I wanted to test out my knee and see if I could run a mile on it yet…it has been healing ok and I don’t have hardly any pain anymore..and I am really wanting to do some cardio at this point…so I got on the treadmill and set it on a much lower speed than I normally run on…and I was ok!…for exactly 2 1/2 mins…not miles…minutes…I started feeling a little discomfort in the knee so I stopped and walked for a minute until it went away, then tried running again…but had to stop…the pain was dull but it was definitely "waking up"…so after that I thought I would try and see how it handled the treadmill…that lasted about 2 mins only too…ah well, I guess I gotta let it rest a few more days, dang it!

..I was in the dressing room at a store today trying on clothes…the mirrors were angled so I had a clear view of my back…and I couldn’t believe that what I was looking at was actually MY back…it felt like I was looking at a progress pic that someone else took…much more muscle and it even looks like it is getting broader…well of course I had to try and flex and when I did I saw more muscle than I have seen in my pics or in my mirrors at home…I know part of it is just the different lighting, but still, it was unexpected and so motivating…it made me stop for a minute and think of all the work I did to get it where it is…and it showed me that every minute I spent in the gym has definitely paid off…yep, days like these are the BEST kind

Never in a million years would I have thought there’d be a protein that tastes this good..but I found one!..Gaspari’s Myofusion Delicious Vanilla flavor…I just thought I would try it since it was on sale at GNC and I have been pleasantly surprised by how good it is—and how easy it is to mix too!  I give it a thumbs up

…Well I thought I was doing better with my hamstring/knee pain, in fact it almost felt completely recovered but still not quite 100%…and then tonight while doing my back workout I may have set it back a couple notches…maybe the single arm rows did it, since I had to bend my knee on the bench to do them, not sure but the weird feeling in the back of my knee came back…I don’t think I pulled my hamstring because that seems ok now, it’s just my knee gets a little bit swollen when I am standing for a long time or walking around..

…not being able to do cardio means that now I really have to monitor the calories or I gain weight!…And the first couple days that I was resting the leg, I let a couple dessert items slip into my diet and I did gain a couple pounds, but then I reeled it in and for the past 3 days I have been pretty good with keeping it in check…I was planning on resuming cardio this Sunday, but maybe I will need to give it another week to fully heal…I guess I just gotta play it by ear…not much else I can do at this point…never thought I would MISS cardio but I really do…