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November 22, 2006 / Wednesday
Crap, That Was Muscle Weight
Boo. Went to the gym and did my first lower body work in almost two months. My legs are definitely weaker than they were the last time I tried to run through these exercises. I've been really bad about weight training since then, mainly because I have so many other activities (swimming, scuba, etc.) going on. The few times I've made it to the gym, I've worked upper body muscles; I reasoned that my lower body does more work on a day to day basis, and has to work harder than my upper body when I play hockey. Different kind of hard, I know, and this sure is evidence of such.
I'm pretty sure that my reduced ice cream intake is a factor in my recent mass reduction, but I wonder how much of it is due to lost leg muscle. Probably a lot, since leg muscles are big and heavy. Now that my swimming and scuba lessons are over, I should have time to work on strengthening them again.
Speaking of swimming, I hopped in the pool after hitting the weights and swam 200 yards, mostly freestyle. I was able to complete each length without touching pool bottom, even though I had to flip and/or switch to breaststroke on a few of them. Phew, what a workout!
November 22, 2006 10:13 AM | Gym:Water