It's my favorite day!!!!!

It's obviously my favorite day because it's Friday - but it's my favorite gym day because it's LEG day!!!!!!!  I dread arm days (most of the time - I'm beginning to love it) but I seriously love leg day. 

I love squats and leg presses and it all :)  Ha!  Brings me back to the years as a softball catcher and how I relied on my legs to be strong to survive and inning - to pop up fast to throw a runner out trying to steal second - to sprint down the base line to catch that foul ball. I expected a lot from my legs - and I still do.  Now I'm trying to give my legs to strength and support they deserve by working them.

Thinking of leg workouts - do you know how important a good pair of gym shoes are for you workouts?? I love my Reebok realflex shoes and the thought of giving them up is sad, but I've had the shoes for 4 years and I spent my evening yesterday soaking my throbbing feet.  I woke up yesterday morning and thought I was going to crawl to work that day,my feet hurt so bad it about knocked me down when I tried to walk.  I had made mention to Justin the night before that I thought I needed new shoes because my feet hurt, but I never expected them to hurt that bad.

Listen to your body when you are working out - if something hurts - pay attention to that - missing a day of working out is not worth the potential risk of really hurting yourself. I hated missing the gym yesterday - but the thought of another potential foot surgery or stress fracture hurt more than one missed day.

I'm really getting into this health journey. I don't want to call it a weight loss journey - because even though that is the ultimate goal - I want my body to be healthy. I get excited for the gym each day and look forward to seeing how I body has changed - even in this short time.

How are you doing on this journey?? Still making forward progress?? Have you hit a stand still??  How can I encourage you??

in other questions - anyone has recommendations for some good gym shoes?? (p.s I generally hate Nike's)

any exciting weekend plans??  I'm getting up early to hit up the local farmers market - then headed to Noblesville for Earth Fare (we don't have a store like that yet in Lafayette but it's coming this fall).  Looking forward to meeting up with my mother (and hopefully dad comes too) and can celebrate my momma's birthday a little early.

Oh and the best part of today being my favorite day, I woke up for work this morning and my husband was home from a trip to Chicago :)  Everyday is the best day when I'm with my husband.

Happy Friday!!!!

Heather