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yvi ([personal profile] yvi) wrote in [community profile] lifting_heavy_things 2010-04-30 04:05 pm (UTC)

I only started weight training three weeks ago and I did a lot more reading up and modified my strength routine this week. As of two days ago, I have added squats, lunges, rows and shoulder presses to what I did before (bench presses, wall push-ups, crunches, biceps curls, flies and reverse flies). My new program takes me about 50 minutes, which is a good amount of time, I think. The squats were a bit hard on my knees, though, and since I also do running I am going to leave them out today so they can recover.

So far. my weights looks like this ( provided my barbell actually weighs 11 kilograms...):
squat: 20 kilograms, able to do that 12 times, but I can't yet go down far so I will also practice without weights
bench press: 16 kilograms, able to do that 11 times
curl: 13 kilograms, able to do that 12 times
shoulder press: 13 kilograms, able to do that 12 times

I am actually not sure how much my dumbbell handle weighs. I think 2.5 kilograms, but it could also be 2 kilograms, and I add 1 kilogram per handle for all the exercises so far except or the rows which I can comfortably do with 2 kilograms added.

I'll probably up a few of those next training or the one after that. I am still trying out a lot of stuff, having my boyfriend watch whether I am doing them correctly etc.

I am pretty proud of myself right now :)

(Note: not a native speaker and damn, all that new vocabulary is a bit hard)

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