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 :)