Wednesday Eats & Workout

Happy Thursday y’all! This week really has just flown by. I started my morning with a 3-egg spinach omelet. Always a great way to start the day.

I spent the rest of the morning drinking coffee and catching up on some blog reading. Around two, I started to get hungry for lunch, so I heated up the leftover meat sauce from yesterday’s lunch. I served the sauce on zucchini “pasta” on Tuesday. The meat sauce was a mixture of hot italian chicken sausage and ground turkey (3/4 lb. ground turkey plus 3/4 lb. sausage) with marinara sauce.

That was the first time I’d ever tried eating zucchini “noodles”, and I have to say that I’m a fan. Obviously it isn’t quite the same as pasta, but I was able to twirl the zucchini strands on my fork just like real pasta. I used my julienne peeler to make the noodles.

The second day, I served it over a little quinoa mixed with spinach. I cooked the quinoa then added a little butter (grass-fed) and some chopped spinach while the quinoa was still steaming hot so it would wilt.

Snack of the day: hard-boiled egg and some celery sticks. Sorry, too lazy to take a pic. 🙂

Around 7:45 PM, I headed out for run. It was still in the mid-nineties at that time, and man, it really made it tough. My legs felt really tight, which didn’t help any.

I did my usual four mile loop out and back.

Meanwhile, my husband had walked over to a nearby school track, and my plan was to meet him over there after I finished my run. He wasn’t quite finished with his workout, so while he continued his laps, I did some lunges on the long jump surface.

I did the exercises from the book, plus a couple that aren’t in the book.

Resistance Training Exercises

Skater Lunges: 20 reps alternating – 2 sets
Back Lunges: 15 reps alternating – 2 sets
Squat-Side Leg Lifts: 20 reps alternating – 2 sets
Plie Squats: 20 reps – 2 sets
Push-Ups: 12 total – Girly ones and only 12 because I’m a wuss 🙁
Rows: Pullovers: 6 reps – 3 sets
Dips: 6 reps – 3 sets
Bicep Curls: 6 reps – 3 sets
Reverse Flys: 6 reps – 3 sets
The Superman: 20 reps ( I hate these, so I only did 20)
Pelvic Bridges: 15 reps – 2 sets
Bicycle Crunches: 20 reps – 2 sets

I had never done the Skater Lunges (also called Curtsy Lunges) before, but I just happened to read an article by fitness trainer Harley Pasternak that said it was an awesome exercise for your backside. It was a little tougher than standard lunges. The Superman was another exercise that he recommended.

Judging by how sore I am in that area today, I can see where those lunges would work. 🙂

Dinner: Leftover Salmon Sweet Potato Cakes w/ leftover Cauliflower Rice and Sauteed Spinach.

The Cauliflower Rice is from Multiply Delicious, which if you are looking for some great regular, grain-free or Paleo recipes, you should definitely check out her website. She now follows a Paleo diet, so her more recent recipes are based on that, but she still has some of her pre-Paleo recipes on her site too. I am loving her site for grain-free recipes!

I have another 4 mile run planned for this evening, but based on how sore I am right now, I’m not sure how well that is going to go. 🙂

Have you ever done the Skater Lunge, A.K.A Curtsy Lunge? If so, did you think they were tougher than regular lunges?
 

By Tempie at March 11, 2018.