Today's weather put me in mind of one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. "If it keeps on raining, levee's gonna break." It's rained a steady downpour since last night with no sign of stopping today. The retention ponds all around us have either overflowed or will soon. That means heavy flooding for our subdivision and it means no way in and no way out. We've seen this twice before since we moved here 15 years ago and it is not pretty. The village is doing everything it can to pump the water out so hopefully if it does flood it won't be too damaging.
This morning I was thinking of not going to the gym due to the potential flood. Last time this happened I went out to do my Saturday shopping and when I got back a few hours later I barely made in back into my driveway. But I decided we weren't at that point yet so out I went for a great new workout Rog gave me. Today I have a flood win! And a goblet squat win! Double win!
I haven't been squatting much due to bad knees and bad body mechanics. Rog has had me working on glutes and core mostly the last few months. Today it paid off big time when I did goblet squats for the first time since last summer. Not only was my form great...stable, hips low, knees out...but I did them using a 20 lb. dumbbell. The last time I did goblet squat I did them with a 10 lb. dumbbell holding onto a wall. Not this time. I was very pleased.
Not so pleased that I weighed today after two low days with no change in weight. I need to talk to Rog about this on Monday. I don't want weight to be the sole criteria for progress. I wasn't going to take pictures until the end of May but I think I'll do them at the end of this month to see if there is any visible progress. I'd rather not make changes if things are really happening. It's hard for me to be objective about these things and I need Rog to give it his professional eyes.
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