Weekly Post: What did you do?

[cereta]

What is says in the subject ;).

Comments

[helens78]

I am doing a series of free-weights exercises and a few bodyweight exercises these days, and I wanted to kinda wait until it seemed like the habit would stick before posting here.

I do five sets of five reps on everything but the push-ups (where I'm following the hundredpushups.com plan, modified with a spread-leg base instead of stairs or on my knees, because my stairs are kinda inconvenient and on my knees tweaks my knees).

So here's the weight totals on my most recent set of each of these:

Back squats: 60lbs
Bench press: 55lbs-and-failure
Kettlebell high pull: 25lbs (we need a heavier kettlebell :) )
Standing biceps curl: 32lbs
Bench dip: 5x5. I am dying to manage even ONE dip on the dip bars without assistance.
Deadlift: 60lbs
Push press: 32lbs
Pushups: 23

(Incidentally, if you ever want a really massive ego boost, try counting up the total amount of weight you have moved -- ie, if you moved 50 pounds per rep, and did 25 total reps, you just moved 1250 pounds. I find this very motivating. XD)

[cereta]

I started out pretty well this week, doing planks, chair dips, and lunges on Tuesday (not much, I know, but I'm trying to work my way back gradually). I got derailed both Thursday and today, although still managed two 60-second elbow planks. I'm thinking it's time to try a third again.

[rydra_wong]

we need a heavier kettlebell :)

Happy words! And then you can use the "light" kettlebells for TGUs and suchlike. Kettlebells never become useless!

[yeloson]

Last couple of weeks have disrupted a lot of workouts for me- traveling up and down the coast - left to doing mostly calisthetic type stuff:

Pushups 12x2
Rolling Pushups 12
Silat squats 10 each side
Shoulder Press 60 lbs
Saws 30 lbs
Butterflies 60 lbs
Squats 60 lbs

[rydra_wong]

No barbells this week -- my beloved desk chair finally collapsed beyond repair, and my lower back is cranky because of the substitute, so I figured that loading it with heavy stuff was not a good plan.

Instead, I'm starting to learn how to use my new clubbells (see previous post for squee and discussion).

And I got in my second-ever session with my fingerboard (climber thing).

[rydra_wong]

What's a silat squat, if you don't mind my asking? The Google has failed me on this one.

[yeloson]

Remember when I was trying to explain sempok/depok? It's going down to either position then standing up without using your hands. It's pretty intense because it puts nearly all of your bodyweight on one leg, as you come down, and again as you get up to standing.

[alphaviolet]

I've started carrying groceries home regularly.

[jld]

Approximately nothing. Originally, the plan was that I was going to join the new gym Wednesday of last week, when the moving was happening, so I could pick up my exercise schedule seamlessly! Which did not happen. I did join the gym last Saturday... and then promptly came down with a bad cold (as in, I'm only mostly sure it wasn't actually flu) and haven't actually gone yet. Sigh. Maybe tomorrow.

(I did lift myself up hills on my bicycle when they got in my way, as per usual. And myself and the bike up the stairs to the new apartment. But this is not quite what I was going for.)

[supermouse]

Still exercising lying flat on my back, with the rubbery spoingy thing. However, the rubbery spoingy thing now seems a bit feeble, so I am looking around for a stronger rubbery spoingy thing, which feels like progress.

[sophiap]

I did four more workouts from the Phase 6 of NRoL4W. The workouts are short, but intense. Workout A is negative chinups, underhand lat pulldowns, barbell split squats, and pushups. Workout B is unevenly weighted lunges, dumbell rows, push presses, reverse crunches, and back extension.

One more workout, and I'll have a week off before starting Phase 7.

What's been fun is comparing my logs from this week to the logs from when I started. I have nearly doubled the weight I can do on my pulldowns, and quadrupled it on my rows. Whee!