I have been faithful to my workouts this entire year! (har) Remember that new amped up workout gym trainee and I are trying? It’s working miracles. We’ve increased all our weights by 35%-50%, dropped our reps from 15 to 10, and we’ve decreased our cardio for the time being.

Today is upper body day, and since we’re still sore from Wednesday’s upper body workout, we did sets of 8 (but 8 was all we were able to push out at these new weights).
Machine chest press: 50 lbs.
Supine barbell bench: 60 lb barbell
Lateral shoulder lift (gym trainee calls this “flying”): 8 lb dumbbells
Dumbbell bicep curls: 15 lb dumbbells
Lat pull-down: 85 lbs
Mid-level rows: 70 lbs
Cable tricep press-down: 45 lbs (or maybe 60; the numbers were rubbed off)
5 minute elliptical warmup in the beginning, with 5 minute elliptical cool-down at the end.

My gym trainee loves her new muscle tone and noticed the inches are leaving. I dropped some weight, not sure how much as my home scale is out of battery, but I definitely dropped inches. I’m comfortably back in my size 2 pants. So for all those people out there who say women should do light weight with high reps to keep from looking like a man and bulking up, and for my mom who told me to stop weight-lifting so my arms don’t look big and ugly in a strapless dress…

PTTTHHHHH!@#$