Trip Down Memory Lane

I've been talking with my best friend from college, and we've been trying to arrange for her to visit me from Dallas. We've been at this distance since we graduated (almost 4 years) and have seen each other twice. It's hard. But her trip is looming now, and I'm psyched.

So with my mind full of thoughts of good old Sarah Lawrence College, I noticed that my gym has the same old elliptical machines that said friend and I used to use when we worked out together. And we were nuts. We worked out almost 5 days a week for four years, minus trips abroad.

I love these machines. I don't know if they're any different from the newer machines, but I feel like I'm working harder on them. I cranked the incline up to 20 (the highest) and dialed up the resistance (not the highest) and worked out until I felt like my butt and calf muscles would shoot sparks like fire crackers. To make the throwback complete, I found the worst magazine that I could (Cosmo, of course, is the worst magazine) and sweat away. I closed my workout with a few strength moves:

25 bicep-curls/shoulder-press combos
Weighted crunch with toe-touches (I think you'd need a photo)
Scissor Crunches
Delt Flies
Sumo Squats
Weighted Kicks

The Delt Flies were a new one today, and they'll definitely be added to my routine. Tomorrow is one hour of pure cardio. My definition of that is upping cardio to 45 minutes (yikes) and adding in 15 minutes of abs and stretching. The calendar/clock is ticking toward 05/09/2009.