I don't know if it was the leg workout or the Texas air, but I can't breathe and I keep sneezing every few seconds! I've had to take off a couple of days from doing cardio and from weight training, and I'll be sleeping in tomorrow and try to get these allergies to settle down a bit. I'm incredibly allergic to mountain cedar (so I was practically dying while going to college in Austin), and I think the cedar levels are high this week here.

I did shoot with Gene Carangal today. It was a short shoot and I was scheduled to work with him again tomorrow, but bloodshot and itchy eyes along with an attack of the sneezes probably won't go over well on camera, so I've had to bow out, unfortunately.

As for that leg workout on Monday, I did sets of 20 on everything. I started with one legged leg extensions and then supersetted that with jump squats. Then I did reverse lunges on the Smith machine and supersetted that with step ups on a bench. I moved on to the leg press with a very narrow stance and concentrated mostly on my glutes before moving on straight leg deadlifts with a wide stance (I did these with an 80 pound bar in my hands for the sets of 20) and then finishing off with lying leg curls. My legs were toast by then. I save calves for another day so that I can truly attack them because they need to grow and balance out my quads.

Oh, by the way. I know my lats have grown since the New York show. I went to try on dresses today on my way home from the shoot, and I ripped one of them trying to get it off. Uggh!!! I hid it amongst the other dresses I tried on and got out of the dressing room pretty quickly. I hate it when that happens!

My food intake for the next few days will be a bit higher in fat and carbs and I'll probably have a cheeseburger and some pizza (which I haven't had in several months). I need the break, and then Monday I'll begin getting my physique seriously ready for the shoots I have with my webmaster and with Reg Bradford at the Olympia. I might do another one with Brian Moss (oh yes, I have to add those pictures in sometime in October; that guy does phenomenal work!) and might get to work with Gene C. again to make up for having to cancel on him for tomorrow.

Okay, that's about it. I'll stop in tomorrow for a bit and then write again on Sunday after the Southwest Texas show.

Have a good weekend!

Jodi :)