Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are my least favorite days in the gym. Why?? Because those are the days that I do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). Yesterday I did 30/60's 20/40's are actually my favorites and I'm building myself up for 60/120's but those are a long ways away I think. HIIT is not one of my favorite things, but I do have to admit, I feel awesome after everything's over and I crawl back to my car. I was reading an interesting article yesterday by Craig Ballentyne about HIIT and why he feels it's superior to longer steady-state cardio and it did make me feel more excited about doing them. I still do steady state, but I can say that I have seen the most fat loss and cardiovascular improvement from intervals. I do my intervals on the bike. I don't think my bum knee could handle the treadmill anyway, but I don't think I'd ever do them on the treadmill or stepmill even if I had great knees. HIIT on these two things just scream "if you even think of trying HIIT on me, I will make sure you hurt yourself, trip and fall or in some other way make you look like a complete and utter fool. Step away from me and get your butt back on that bike." :lol: Today is lifting and maybe 20-30 mins of steady state afterwards....a much better day. I kinda enjoy lifting once I get there and get in the groove. The hardest thing is definitely making myself go after work. The funny thing is, I.AM.STRONG. I remember the very first time I did lat pull downs I started at 75lbs, which not bragging are some people's PR's. The hardest exercise for me to gain strength is the bench. I started out benching just the bar and am still at only about 75lbs. I have this mental block and this fear of the bar falling on my throat. :lol: I'm very conservative with my Ass-to-Grass squats too every since I hurt my knee over a year ago. I swear if I ever feel that pain again, I will just shoot myself right there on the gym floor. I was doing jumping jacks and when I landing with my feet out, my knee just caved inward. I guess my poor knee just couldn't handle the massive tonage called my bodyweight that was being forced upon it. Poor baby. It was the worst pain and has taken forever to heal, which was my fault because I didn't see a doctor and tried to rehab it myself. Yeah, bad move I know, but I had my reasons at the time. I still baby it. Now deadlifts are a different story. I love me some deadlifts. I love my pink lifting straps too because my grip strength cannot accomodate the amount that I can lift. RDL's are my favorite. Oddly enough but I think due to my knee as well, I lift more on RDL's than I do CDL's. My goal this year is to break the 200lb mark. I cant wait to see what's underneath all of this fat muscle-wise once I start leaning out.