Striving for Strength

Just a quick post to update. I am one day away from completing two full weeks of my new program of 2 days run, 2 days cardio, and 2 days strength training, although technically, I didn't get the second day of cardio in last week due to a last-minute issue.

I am LOVING working on the strength training again. There are a few machines that, to be perfectly honest, I hate, but I'm doing them anyway, because I can feel that I'm getting stronger, and that the strength training, for me, is a necessity to get to my 2012 goal of running a full marathon.

Hubby goes with me, and while I'm working on the machines, he's also working on some of them, which is so great to see. He has some very, very bad back issues, but has learned which machines he can do, which ones are helping him to stretch, and which machines he cannot use. Each time we go, he finds something else that he can work with.

He also sets up each machine for me. As I'm working on one, he's setting the next one up for me, and he wipes them down when I'm finished. So I get done the circuit quicker and am able to do more machines in the hour that I have set.

Oh, yeah, and he figured he'd play paparazzi today and snap a few pics while I was working out. Okay. They're not bad. So I'll share.

The third picture is a new machine that I added to the routine today, the lat pull down. Not sure if I was doing it right, but seems like it.

I've also been doing a lot of cooking and trying new recipes. Hope to have a new post about that soon.

I also STILL have not done my "11 things about me" post. Just having a hard time getting it all in. But I shall not give up!