pulling out a living 8 ft pine tree from my yard and trying to transplant it to another spot in my yard. Holy cow! Mel was right when she told me I hadn't even begun working my major muscle groups, cuz they're talking to me this morning. My sides under my arms, my glutes - hugely talking, and shoulders, triceps. The good news is that I didn't hurt myself or injure my back, so I guess I was doing everything right by digging in with my glute muscles and pulling with my upper body as we worked fiercely hard to release this thing from its home for the last 2 years, wire basket and all, and then once freed had to get it up OUT of the hole and rolled to the other side of the yard for its new home. Sheesh - now I know how the lumberjack feels, I think. It's truly amazing how much a mid-size tree and alot of dirt can really weigh! But I'm going to add these sections to my circuit and free weight workout bc now that I've found them I want to keep working them and have them keep talking to me like the sore dogs they are! lol

This may not be 'right' thinking, but I always hope that if muscles hurt later, that means they're repairing and that could be using calories still

Good work, Fran!

I was just thinking about a tree I removed in my townhome before I moved. It was a bit too close to the foundation and cluttered up the small "garden" area of the townhome. The tree had been growing a couple years and I don't know what type it was but it had already established some deep roots. I removed it with.... a kitchen knife, a hammer and a small crowbar. Lacking real gardening tools, I pulled at the roots, cut where I could and just pulled the tree up from the ground. It took a couple hours to actually get it out. I was sore the next day

So I have now been introduced to the new "Tree Cutting Workout" ... Do you think we can sell some books and make $$$ ...

Great work girls, I love having sore muscles... Actually I had very sore muscles today from doing all weekend... I was fine at the camp till I got up this morning and I was super stiff...

Oh, I rushed to do weights at lunch today bc I was too sore to make it til evening. I added in my new lat pulldown, my lateral raises (pouring water out of the pitcher?), my deadlifts, my squats. Now I have a completely NEW kind of pain!! Oh my, what was I thinking? Probably need to add the new stuff to the beginning of the session and not at the end, when I'm less tired and not as apt to shake from it. I did 3 set of pulldowns, but could only do one set of the raises, lifts and squats and then stopped bc I was shaky and head was pounding. Hmm, maybe too much at once? lol

Quite a workout!

Fran- when you do your workouts, are you moving from large to smaller muscle groups? If you are trying to do squats after back, arm and chest work, you aren't going to be able to do much.

Here's the order I use for a full body workout: Legs and glutes, Back, Chest, Shoulders, Arms. Throw abs in there between other exercises.

I hope you can move tomorrow!

Mel