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 Went to the gym today! I don't know why i feel more motivated and less anxious lately. I do think i have to get my period so usually the week before i have less anxiety lol. I at first almost didn't go cause every time when i wanted to leave something else happened; my shirt had a stain, my phone wasn't charged etc. but i made it! Also when i was leaving my cat neighbor (i'll call him that) (it's the neighbor who also takes care of the cats in the neighborhood) was outside so i talked to him about the cats for some time, and then i left to the gym. I was there around 04.40PM or something and it was a little bit crowded. 

There were a lot of women in the gym all doing leg day (of course). So that was kind of annoying. Have to probably go a bit earlier next time on a Monday. Just have to find the sweet spot.

• Abductor 1x12 (42.5kg), 2x10 (45kg)
• Leg curls 1x12 (25kg), 2x10 (25kg)
• Sitting leg press (feet mid) 1x12 (50kg) 3x12 (60kg)
• Adductor 1x15 (30kg), 1x15 (32.5kg), 1x10 (35kg)
• RDL 3x12 (14kg)

Because most machines were hogged the order of things were a bit chaotic. I wanted to do the leg press, but there were so many men at the weight section (where the leg press is faced towards) that it felt a bit overwhelming so i just decided to go home and do RDLs.

There was also a girl in the gym who did the stairmaster after her workouts and i was like "you can do the stairmaster after your workouts???" means you aren't training hard enough!!! 

I was also sweating a lot today, which is weird cause the temps went down but i was really sweaty. Might be because i ate unhealthily this weekend lol. 

Leg curl felt like a good stretch but had to go down in reps after the first batch cause oof. The weight wasn't too high, it was just right. I could've probably gone a bit higher but the workout itself is just so hard on my legs lol. The leg press felt too easy on 50kg so i went to 60kg. I could've probably easily gone to 70kg but i will keep that for another. At one point i felt it really in my glutes (i put my feet in the middle of the platform). My addies did hurt a lot again and still when i did the adductor. But it's already better vs last week!

Cooled down. Thanks Storm!

Yesterday i wanted to do some core exercises, but my day was a bit weird. I went to the store later in the evening and then we got a crazy ass storm with heavy winds, and insane lightning (i made a video i might post it). Apparently they even warned for a hurricane! That like... doesn't happen here? Lol. My fence almost blew over. I think it is standing crookedly now, but i don't want to assess the damage just yet lol.

I wanted to also do core exercises yesterday, but it was so hot i was like whatever. Luckily it cooled down a lot today, so i might do it tonight. NO. I WILL do it tonight! 

I also said (i believe) i wanted to do daily squats and totally forgot about them yesterday, so oops. My addies still hurt btw.

Today i did 13 squats.

Heatwave Friday

The last time i went to the gym was on a Friday as well and from my notes i went at around 02.40PM and it started to become less crowded around 03.15PM. So today i planned to go around 03.15PM. 

I ended up going at 03.30PM. There were again not many people, mainly men. And everyone was old. But not like elderly. At one point there was a man and i realized he had flipflops on and later on he was next to me doing leg extensions and i saw his crusty feet and toenails and it was so gross!!! I don't understand how he didn't get kicked out of the gym. Later on i saw him praying?! So strange. I live in a white small farmer town and we have one living facility for eastern Europeans who come to work here and then there are some refugee centers scattered around. I'm going to assume he was from the refuge center.

• Adductor 1x15 (30kg), 3x12 (32.5kg)
• Leg curls 1x12 (25kg), 1x10 (27.5kg), 1x12 (25kg)
• Sitting leg press (feet low) 3x12 (50kg)
• Abductor 1x12 (35kg), 1x12 (40kg), 1x12 (42.5kg), 1x10 (45kg)
• Leg extension 3x8 (35kg)
• RDL 3x12 (14kg)

My addies really hurt today. When i went on the adductor machine i had to put the machine on a lower number (7) so i barely had ROM, but after that i could put it back on 6. I usually have it on 5 i believe. I didn't try to push myself too hard today. I just wanted to get it done. On the leg curls i could do 27.5kg, but my leg felt a bit weird (like i was gonna pull a muscle), so i quickly went back to 25kg. At home i did RDLs. I first wanted to do 14kg, but again, don't want to push myself, so i went to 10kg. 

The gym was overall really quiet as i said, it was the same in May so Friday afternoons are a good time to go! I now wonder what Friday evenings are like.

Melting Core

Last night the upstairs neighbors kept me up until 5AM and then woke me up at 11AM. I want to say things, but i don't want to be on a certain watchlist so i will just keep quiet :) I did walk the dog at night and it was still so hot outside :( I aired everything out all night/morning, and keeping everything closed right now, so it is a bit cooler in my apartment. But the sun will come at the end of the afternoon so we'll see how it will be then... hopefully not horrible.

Today the DOMs aren't too bad, probably cause i skipped the RDLs. Oops. I did make an overview of the workouts i want to do on Mon/Wed/Fri. I made a long version and a short one: in case i don't have energy, i didn't sleep well etc. It's like a glute>quad>full leg day. But i will first do a kind of "intro" month, where i just do some boring stuff to just get back into things and i don't have to overthink anything. The workouts are basically only the leg press, RDLs, leg extension & curl and adductor/abductor machine. So fairly simple. And then do daily squats as well, to wake up those muscles and to not eff myself up.

And then on Tue/Thu i want to do core exercises, maybe even do some upper body exercises. But i will first start with just core and see how that goes.

• 1x8 Long arm crunch
• 1x12 Tuck up crunch
• 1x20 Bicycle crunch 
• 1x12 Weighted Russian twist 
• 1x12 Dumbbell side bend
• 1x12 Seated barbell twist (4kg)

Today i did 10 squats!

Super Summer Heat

Wewwww it's super summer heat, and i decided to go to the gym in the evening for once! I have been going to the gym maybe every two-four weeks, since the last time i wrote here. I also sometimes try to work-out at home, but no matter what i do i can't get back in the flow. I felt inspired the other day cause i found out about soy crisps and how much protein they have + soy bits and i got excited again about eating high protein.

But eating high protein doesn't matter if i don't work-out as well, so i've been dabbling with working out ever since. Last week i finally decided to order the soy crisps + bits so this week i really wanted to start going to the gym again. My idea is to just do legs Mon/Wed/Fri. I didn't do it this Monday cause i had some stuff coming up, but i did it today! I'm so proud of myself.

• Adductor 1x15 (30kg), 1x12 (32.5kg), 1x12 (35kg), 1x12 (37.5kg)
• Sitting leg press 1x15 (30kg), 2x12 (50kg),  2x10 (60kg)
• Abductor 1x12 (35kg), 1x12 (40kg), 1x12 (42.5kg), 1x10 (45kg)

The crowd in the gym was more or less the same in the evening as when i usually go, except people don't really leave. Normally in the afternoon people come and go, which sometimes means you are in the gym with only 2 people, but in the evening everyone hovers and stays for some reason. I went around 8.30PM and left an hour later and the same people were in the gym the whole time. So i do think going in the afternoon is better, although i have heard a worker there say that on Thu/Fri evening there's almost no one there. Maybe i'll try that out this week as well. I do think i prefer the late mornings and early afternoons tho.

The reason i decided to go in the evening is because i wanted to go, but my upstairs neighbors keep me up all night. So i usually wake up around 1-2PM. Then i gotta wake up etc. and by then it is so warm outside that i don't really want to do anything. And right now i am just trying to focus on the fact that i did go. And that's the most important! Eating right now is a little bit whatever for me because of the heat. I usually don't feel very hungry and maybe eat one meal a day and the rest is liquid calories, which could be worse.

I also didn't do too much at the gym cause most machines were taken constantly and i wasn't in the mood to wait. But again... progress is progress. And once i gain my strength back i probably feel more comfortable kicking people off the gym equipment (hehe joking... unless). Then at home i wanted to do some RDLs but it was so hot inside of my apartment, i just opted out. Maybe next time!