reason #21: so my flabby arms will be replaced by strong, muscular … guns.

so i officially started this new, “escalated” workout regiment today, given to me by a friend from church. remember when i said i wanted to start lifting weights? well i finally got around to that. he helped me work out a six-day plan that involves working my chest, shoulders and abs.

here’s the rundown:

warm-up – 20 minutes of cardio or until you get to 3x your heart rate. he suggested simply dancing in place, moving about with free weights. today i replaced it with about 30-40 minutes of running.

day 1 – arms & shoulders: biceps curls and upright dumbell rows.

day 2 – chest: dumbell chest press, flys and pushups.

dat 3 – squats and twists.

every other day – crunches.

for all the exercises, i’m to do 30 reps times 3 sets. i’m using ten-pound dumbells.

repeat twice, then rest for one day.

six weeks, he says, before i start seeing results.

so there you have it. i never really liked strength exercises because it hurt and they required a lot of patience, so hopefully i’ll stick to this plan long enough till it becomes a habit.

i leave you now with two quotes. the first one i probably picked up somewhere but don’t remember, so i’ll quote as my own:

strength is not achieved by making everyone else look weaker than you.
strength is achieved by lifting everyone else up.

and last is a quote from the legendary ron burgundy:

Oh, it’s the deep burn! Oh, it’s so deep! Oh, I can barely lift my right arm ’cause I did so many. I don’t know if you heard me counting, I did over a thousand. You have your ubulus muscle which connects to the upper dorcinus. It’s boring, but it’s a part of my life.