Buffy Buffington gets Buffer

To be honest, I’m not really sure why I’m posting today.  So far, it’s a good week, but it’s only Monday, so who knows what the rest of the week holds?  I had a weird workout this morning.  I workout at a gym about 10 minutes from home.  My husband and I drive to the gym together, but workout separately.  See, I workout MUCH harder than my husband.  He has become complacent and believes, mistakenly, I OFTEN point out, that at 49 years young, his physique peaked back in his 30s (before I knew him, unfortunately).  Therefore, he does his thing and I do mine.  This morning, I found myself wide awake at 5 a.m. and, knowing that hubby would have to sleep til the last minute before we headed to the gym, I got up and went about my morning routine:  brush teeth, hair in pony tail, don cute gym outfit I laid out the night before, feed and water The Pug, start the coffee (it was scheduled to go off about 45 minutes later), prepare pre-workout drink (White Flood aka nitric oxide), prepare workout drink (Purple Wraath - bcaas), take The Pug outside…yada, blah, yada…I decided that today, since I usually sip my N.O. and still have some remaining by the time we arrive at the gym, I had the time and would consume the entire 16.9 oz before I even had my coffee.  To put it bluntly, I slammed that bitch!  I was thinking to myself, "This is going to be a KICK ASS workout.  I finally finished all my White Flood BEFORE my workout!"  Well, as the morning progressed, my husband awoke (after my yelling at him that he had to get up, as usual - I’m a morning person, HE’S NOT) and I moved on to my coffee.  To put it mildly, by the time we were settled in the car on our way to "my kickass workout", my stomach started to rebel and I felt the tingling and shakiness start to set in.  I was "hepped up" on N.O. + caffeine and my guts were NOT taking it well.

I pushed through the nausea, started my warmup on the elliptical and thought, "Huh, maybe I’m feeling better.  I’m all good…"  As I walked over to grab my DBs for my walking lunges, my knees felt a little wobbly, but I had scheduled a leg day, and dammitalltoheck, I was going to DO MY LEG WORKOUT!!  I huffed and puffed my DBs over to my "lunge route" between the recumbent bikes and ellipticals, and set out for my first set.  I swear to you that within about 5 reps my heartrate was up to AT LEAST 145, and by the time I finished my 24 reps (the first 12 performed with a "pulse"), was AT LEAST 160!  Now, I don’t wear a HRM, but I KNOW my heartrate - I’ve been doing this a long time.  I felt queasy, shaky and SOOOOOOO winded - it was AWFUL, I tell ya, JUST EFFIN AWFUL!  But I HAD TO CONTINUE.  THIS WAS MY KICKASS LEG WORKOUT and by goodness sake, I was going to get ‘er done!  I continued on, completing:

 Walking lunges, 4 x 24 x 50lbs

SLDL, 3 x 15 x 95lbs

Split squats, 3 x 12 x 30lbs

Ham curls on stability ball, 3 x 15

1-leg standing calf raises, 2 x 15 per leg

45 nauseating/heart-wrenching minutes later, I WAS DONE and I HAD SURVIVED, but a lot worse for the wear.  At one point during my workout, I almost gagged when I took a sip of Purple Wraath and switched to straight H2O. The thought of now ingesting protein powder and egg whites was just sheer nauseating…  As my husband and I drove home, kvetching about our respective workouts (he did legs too, but, God forbid, would never consider lunges - they’re for girls), I was simply "spent".  As the morning progressed, my queasiness subsided and became a pounding headache instead, which then subsided (after ibuprofen), and returned to nausea.  By about Noon today, I was feeling good as new and I felt the first signs of DOMs setting in in my glutes, quads and calves. 

 I HAD DONE IT!!  I had survived my "kickass leg workout" and I was going to have killer DOMs to prove it.  As I write this, it is exactly 12 hours since I was in the middle of my walking lunge sets this morning, and my glutes are "yipping" at me.

Lesson learned and a word to the wise:  N.O. IS helpful and it does energize you, but don’t "slam" it, my friends!  Sip it and enjoy it and have your own "kickass workout" tomorrow!

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