Feeling good

I worked out last night....my first weight training session in, well....let's just say a really really long time. Paulette, as always, is genius and wonderful and created a fabulous strength training plan for me. On Tuesdays I focus on legs with a few arms and on Thursdays I focus on arms with a few legs. Both days incorporate abs. I went last night and started working through the routine. Let me tell you how intimidated I was! I don't particularly like working out in the evening, I never have. I much prefer to work out in the morning when I have the energy to get me through a full workout....but the cards dealt me an evening baby-sitter and that's what I took to get a workout in. Back to intimidating....the entire weight room was crawling with big, huge, buff army dudes. I felt like such an idiot searching the room for the machines I needed and then pushing my measly 20 or 30 lb. weights while they are grunting and throwing around 100's. No worries though....no one paid any attention and I did my thing. Some of the things Paulette had me doing weren't available in the room I was in. (There are two weight rooms in our gym- a machine room and a free weight room). I will need to check the other room to see what is available there and how to work it into the routine so I am not spending all my time walking between the two rooms on opposite sides of this monstrous gym. After I was done with the weights I got on the bike and rode about 1o minutes. Whew...that was a smoker! I thought I was in better shape than the bike let me believe, but I also know it is amazing cross training. Thursday, I will do the other half of the routine and the elliptical. Wednesday...cross your fingers...trying my legs at 6 miles!