paulapop’s BodyBlog

Spent some at the gym this evening and ran into my trainer who is freshly back from a conference where she learned all kinds of new tortures for her clients.  She went over one new method with me tonight.  Its the one and a half rep, rep.  For example, a simple leg press….bring knees in to chest….full extention out, bring knees into chest again, the only extend half way out, and bring knees back in……that is ONE rep.  That half rep is a killer.  I could feel my eyes bugging out when I tried it.  It was awesome!  Trainer lady told me it is great for building strength.  I told her I was already strong enough, thank you very much.  Needless to say she wasn’t buying that one lol.

 Hope everyone is having a great week!

On friday I had to go to the Ministry of Transportation (DMV for my U.S. friends) to get my license plate renewed.  Its never a fun trip, and the lady that works at our local office can get very stressed out by her job and tends to take it out on the patrons.  Anyway…..it was a real hassle while I was there, I had to run home twice, once to get my drivers licence (didn’t know I needed it to renew the plates on the car), and then again when I was finished because I had an old set of plates I wanted to get rid of.  With all the running back and forth, she kept in good spirits and when I was finished she said to me "well now I know how you stay so thin with all the running around you do"

Yes, you read that correctly…..she called me thin!!!!!!!!  I’ve never had a comment like directed at me before.  I hear things like, "wow you’ve really gotten thin, how much weight have you lost?"  This woman just assumed I was always thin.  It definitely made the trip worth it.

As for workouts, Saturday was a day off that I spent gardening, and Sunday was a 6 mile walk with my walking group, then more yard work.

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

Wow, I can’t believe its been two months since I’ve been on here……..has it really been that long?  Gosh, I have no excuse for it either, except maybe summer time, two jobs and zero computer time.

Over the course of this summer, I’ve finished off my nutrition plan and transformation contest.  Gained some muscle, did a bootcamp (was sore for a week after that one)  Got Food poisioning and lost 10lbs in three days (not good!) and started a sunday morning walking group.

I am still up and at it at the gym everyday, I took a month off from personal training and am looking forward to starting back up with it on september 6th.  I don’t even know how much weight I’ve lost……I know I was in the 130’s when I stepped on the scale this morning, and was probably in the 150’s the last time I posted on here.  I will have to trot over to my profile next and update everything. 

I hope everyone had a fabulous summer!