Hello friends and lurkers! ;o), Well we had a quite a weekend!
I had planned to get my leg training in over the weekend, but everything blew up. Our oldest daughter moved back in(long story there!) and then we had this crazy storm roll in that was short but VERY powerful, with straight line winds. Jim and I stood at the window watching as the trees looked like they would break at any moment! It was scary!
At one point he told Amanda & I to run, because the tree was coming down after he had heard a crack…Amanda(my youngest) and I tore off as fast as possible running to the front of the house fully expecting to hear the tree tearing through our roof. I turned to make sure she was with me and Jim was back at the window.
No tree, it was a false alarm. Turns out we found out the next morning it was a neighbor behind us who’s tree came down and most likely was the culprit for losing our power because as soon as that crack had happened there was a LOUD sound of the transformer going out!
Jim and I were getting close to the ending of “The Lincoln Lawyer” when all this happened LOL! It was right to when the tension was mounting too! We didn’t get to finish it until the next day!
We ended up without power for all night and didn’t get it back until around 3:30pm the next day. We managed to save all our meats but lost all the ice cream! 
All my Skinny Cow and Breyer’s Carb Smart and Jim’s & Mandy’s Chip’s Ahoy Breyer’s and Mandy’s M&M ice cream sandwiches! We had JUST bought both the Breyer’s too!! Of course all the frozen veggies as well as MOST of the fridge stuff was lost. All our deep freeze stuff was fine as well. I was worrying about that meat if things went any longer, but all worked out! Fortunately it wasn’t as hot as it had been and our house stayed pretty cool!
A little insight….
With all the rain we’ve had & then this big storm a certain well known phrase kept running through my mind as as things often go, I converse with God all throughout my day about pretty much everything, good, bad and ugly and so God was speaking to me about this saying and here’s where it went…..The phrase is….
“Into every life a little rain must fall”
It’s funny how i’ve heard this all my life but never given any thought to it, until now….
I look at this in a few ways. I think it originated with rain being bad as in it raining on your parade, spoiling your plans and the like. I started thinking a bit deeper and how a normal rain is pleasant, nourishing and refreshing, but sometimes it’s a rainy season of torrential down pours, pounding away & erroding the soil. What is already strong continues to stand and isn’t harmed, but what is unhealthy or weak(not deeply rooted) is destroyed. I started thinking about this and how destruction can seem so cruel, but it isn’t. These are the parts of our lives we haven’t dealt with before the Lord and allowed Him to change in us, so when these are left, they are weaknesses that leave us vulnerable. But them being destroyed and dealt with , it exposes those weaknesses and provides an opportunity for it to establish better roots and to grow up stronger, and not left vulnerable to those crazy storms. They key is getting it before God and allowing Him to deal with it, to endure and learn what we are meant to so that these weaknesses are no longer! It needs proper nourishment to be strong or to remain strong or to get strengthened in the first place. If you neglect it, it can become a weakness again, becoming vulnerable to life’s storms! But if we endure the storm and allow God to do the strengthening of the weaknesses, when the next storm comes it too will stand strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9
New International Version (NIV)
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
Here are a few storm pics I took with my phone, so they aren’t the best….
Monday’s Leg Session 8-8-2011
Power Squat
90 x 15 Back
90 x 12 Front
90 x 10 Back
90 x 10 Front
Went up in weight this time so those were brutal!
Full Deads
135 x 10
135 x 8
135 x 8
135 x 7
In between the 3rd & 4th sets. Jim set it up for me to try a 1 rep max. I tried and tried will all my might 3 times and couldn’t budge. Just gotta keep at it!!
Glute Isolator
40 x 10 x 3
Tried my usual 50lbs but my glutes and hams were fried from the extra deads this session!
Lying Ham Curl
20 x 10
10 x 8
10 x 8
Seated Calf Raise!
25 x 12
25 x 12
25 x 12
First time doing any kind of weighted calf work since my injury!!! I was surprised it didn’t hurt, although my right calf sure cramped up!! I did LOT’S of stretching and so far so good!!
Tuesday-
I did 45 mins of cardio. I did part HIIT, part SS and then ended with working out my foot on the treadmill for the final 10 minutes.
