So about a week ago I told JC that I was hitting personal records on the leg press, and it didn't seem hard. In a moment of weakness, I told him that in just 2 weeks I would leg press 398lbs. Then he said 4 words that never fail to light a fire under my ass--"good luck with that!" . Maybe he meant it in a nice way, but in a text, I *heard* him say it in a way that made me think that he didn't believe that I could do it.
So for the last week, I have been building up to doing that 398lb press. That means adding (6) 45lb plates, and (2) 5lb plates to the 118lb sleigh. On Friday I did the 45lb plates, and (2) 2.5lb plates, and truly meant to wait until THIS Friday to add the other 5lbs of weight. Yesterday I loaded up the sleigh, and without even thinking about it, I grabbed 5lb fractional plates. My friend Mandy gave me a look when I told her I what weight I was aiming for, so I offered to let her watch me. She snapped a picture of me at the top of one rep. This morning I was re-calculating things and realized that I had actually hit my goal! So now I have a new goal for Friday....403lbs!!
For probably 5 months now I have been struggling with my squats. I KNOW I can squat 150lbs, I've done it before, but it just hasn't been possible lately. The other day I had a lightbulb moment, and realized that my issue is my lack of core strength. So now core work is going to be added to my routine. I've been doing a little core about 2x a week...now I am going to be doing more core, more often. Since working towards my leg press goal was so much fun, my March goal is going to be to do 5 decline crunches.
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