Ive decided to add in some weight training / resistance training for my arms and shoulders. Im getting in decent shape in my legs but my arms definatly are still flabby and weak. Im taking the advice of a friend and doing several sets of push ups every other day. I know someone out there just groaned at the thought of doing push ups. I know, I did too. My upper body is so weak just a couple push ups from my knees are enough to send my muscles screaming. But I really would like pretty toned arms for summer. Its almost tank top time already! I also have 1.5lb wrist weights that I started using lastnight to work other muscles. I did several sets of tricept extentions and bicep curls. I need to add front raises, lateral raises and rear shoulder raises. If you dont know what these look like check out this page at prevention.com they have the coolest ‘animated’ directions! I am going to print them all out and stick them on my bulliten board in my office, Im more likely to do them if they are staring me in the face every day! I will probably stick a copy in my cup holder on my treadmill so I cant ‘forget’ on my run days! Im going to see how 3 sets of 10 reps feels. I have a feeling Im going to be in a world of stiff muscles tomorrow! But itll be worth it! Lifting and lugging my kids in and out of car seats really should have given me amazing arms and shoulders but unfortunatly not! Im going to have to really work for them. There was a time, when my youngest was a 16 pound 3 month old that my arms were very strong, they had a thick layer of fat over top of them but once the baby thinned out so did my muscle.

Posted by Shelley in Whatever on February 22nd, 2007 |