Eat Protein within 15 minutes after strength training

I had another personal training session today with Cheryl. It went well. After two straight weeks of working out hard, and eating better, I am starting to feel like I am making progress. I feel stronger already. 

We spent the hour working the whole body again. We started with some leg machines - working inner and outer thighs, quads, and hamstrings. I've always used the seated hamstring and quad machines - you know the ones where you extend your legs up and back. Little did I know though what a huge difference it makes when you point your toes. I naturally flex my foot when I do these exercises. After about a set of flexed foot lifts, Cheryl had me point my toes and do the same exercise. Yowsa! I could feel such a difference!

We again used dumbbells for upper body exercises, but today used a pulley machine with a rope to pull down for triceps. And of course a big honker of a dumbbell over my head for tricep extensions. My shoulders were burning from that too. 

We finished off with some lovely abdominal exercises, included the dreaded crab walk thing. That's the one where I get into pushup position and walk across the floor, dragging my feet behind me that are resting on these fabric disks. (I'm sure there's some cool name for those things, but I have no idea what it is.)

I really like my new trainer. She's fun to be around, easy to talk to, and I don't feel like she is judging me on how I look or perform now, but instead, on what I can become.