Updates!

Hey!

I haven't blogged on here in about 16 days! I have a few updates to talk about.

Last week I had a really weak week (haha that made me laugh) at the gym. I had 1 really good day, one average day, I missed one day because of homework and I had my worst gym day ever. I gained 2 pounds last week, I actually think its likely to be fat. Oh well. It doesn't bother me too much.

But this week has been good. Sunday was suckish because my shin splint was acting up so I ended up walking on the treadmill instead of running. Monday I ran 7 miles in under an hour, which is a new record! And Today (Wednesday) I did the same thing, except ran it 10 seconds faster. 10 Seconds. Wow. Thats actually funny.

I think I have announced this before, but NOW its official, I am now using 15 pound freeweights from bicep curls! I started off at 8 pounds! Thats so crazy! I am so happy! :)

Also last month I started working out my shoulders more. I went from 5 pounds to 12.5 pounds in free weights in about a month. Which is actually awesome.

Besides updates, I am going to blog about "imbalances".

I am not talking about the imbalance that is like, for example, having more bicep then tricep, resulting in injury.

I am talking more symmetrical. Like having your right quad stronger then your left quad.

I have noticed a lot of muscle imbalances where one side of my body is slightly stronger then my other.

Its weird because my right side (for the most part) is stronger then my left. And I am left handed. I just think thats odd.

But my left bicep, is stronger than my right. Maybe my shoulder and my arm in general. But my back, chest, and leg is stronger on my right side.

If you watch me run you can see that my right leg has more visible muscle and is slightly slimmer. I can't figure out how I am running wrong for my leg to be like this. I think it may be happening unconscious when I zone out while running, or something.

But it is annoying. But all I do to correct it is that sometimes when I feel that my one side of my body is getting stronger, I don't start using a heavier weight, I wait for the other side to catch up. Which I am not sure if thats what you are supposed to do, it makes sense though.

Well that is all for now.

Oh, I am drinking a lot more water now :)


Workout tip: When you go to work out a muscle group, workout the one you feel like FIRST, it always gets you more pumped. So if you are in the mood to do arms after cardio, do arms first. You don't need to follow the pattern down to up (legs then butt then abs then arms, etc), it doesn't actually do anything for you. Or mix it up and do one abs move, then a leg move then arms, then back to abs, etc.

P.S. I am SLOWLY getting abs. Really slowly. :) If I run and flex after you can see :)

Fucking Water.

Hydration Nation is Sarah's Station. This is lame already. I NEED TO DRINK MORE WATER. I know this for a freaking scientific fact. God fucking dammit. I am never hydrated enough. But I am never dehydrated. I am going to start drinking water at school now. And everywhere. Literally everywhere. I need it especially since I am running so much now. Ugh. Do you know what is annoying? Carrying water while running. Do you know what is annoying? Being thirsty as fuck and having no water while running. Its a lose-lose situation. RUNNING UPDATE! I have now officially ran 10.3km. (On the treadmill) the most I have ran on land is 9.2km. I am going to do 10km on land on Saturday... if theres good weather. I did 8.3km on sunday on land and the 10.3km monday. Tomorrow I am going to the gym again. I am going to aim for 10km again. I think thats good, just always aiming for 10km. Now my next major goal is running for over an hour. Because all of these goals I have completed in under an hour. So I guess that'd be about 15kmish. I need to start training for speed too. Its just so awkward running really fast. I would like to train for speed at night. Just like sprinting up and down Haig or Farley or something. So yeah, if you see some random chick sprinting down haig... ahahhah. Right. Okay. I am actually soo hyped. So, I said I wanted to run a marathon by the time I was 21.. but I think I can do it before the end of highschool! I might run next year's Toronto Marathon. This year's is this Sunday! Obviously since a marathon is 26.2 miles and the most I have ran is 6.4 miles....I'm not ready. But by the end of the summer I am hoping to be able to run at least a half-marathon.. maybe not an actual marathon, but just on my own, being able to run 13.1 miles. ' I just ate some ice cream and I feel so sick. This is what happens when you get on a health kick then get a craving for icecream and then eat it. Just ew. This is the weirdest thing ever. It is just grossing me out. I was honestly so tempted to puke it up, just because it makes me feel like puking, not even because I am afraid of gaining weight. But I am just drinking a lot of water (YAY) instead. Wash that motha'fuckin' shit down. Obviously this is a professional blog. Blah blah, blah, blah. Toodaloo. Go run a mile. The next time you have time. I dare you.