Weekly Post: What did you do?

[cereta]

You know the drill!

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[cereta]

I finally got back into SOME work, anyway. TTh, I did:

lunges (2 sets, 10 reps)
arm and leg lifts (2 sets, 10 reps)
chair dips (3 sets, 10 reps)
ledge push-ups (2 sets, 10 reps)
elbow planks (3 60-second)

It felt hard while I was doing it, but I have almost no soreness, which on the one hand means I lost a lot less from spring than I thought I had, but also means I need to step up. Next week: free weights come back.

[rydra_wong]

Yay for getting back into it!

[rydra_wong]

I made it to the gym and made some progress on my squats and the dreaded bench press (I think I'm finding it easier to bench with dumbells than with a barbell; I may stick with that for a while anyway to see if the extra wobble potential with the dumbells helps stabilize my shoulders).

And I did a lot of push-ups. I am still trying to be more consistent with my push-ups.

[helens78]

Whee, squats, and yay, bench press! And push-ups!

[natmerc]

Intermittently to crossfit the past few weeks (been sick). Did manage to have a personal record for deadlifts (135lb) Tuesday, get up into a wall handstand without assist for the first time yesterday, and... pull some hamstring muscles trying to get up into a wall handstand without assist.

Not hurting as much today as yesterday and applied much ice, so I hope I nipped the inflammation in the bud. Likely will take tomorrow off.

[rydra_wong]

Owww. I hope you recover speedily. On the plus side, once you've got up into wall handstand on your own once, you know you can do it again ...

[natmerc]

Thanks!

As I said to another gym-goer, "you just have to convince the hind-brain that the wall will won't go away". :)

Each day getting better. (fingers crossed)

[helens78]

I am now squatting and deadlifting 50% of my body weight (half of body weight is 85lbs). \o/ (My work sets are 5 sets of 5 reps. I don't know what my one-rep max is!)

And I did 50 modified push-ups (spread-leg base) yesterday. I'm on week 3 of the Easy version of the hundredpushups plan.

[rydra_wong]

ROCK ON. Deadlifts are the win.

[helens78]

Deadlifts are so freaking fun I can't stand it. Also, I am two progressions away from putting the 25-pound plates on the bar instead of having my largest plate on the bar be a 10-pound plate!!! THE EXCITEMENT, IT IS EPIC.

[natmerc]

I keep looking at the hundredpushups plan and being intimidated. Great job.

[helens78]

Thank you! :) I tell you what, I think I did two push-ups during my initial test, and I was positive I wouldn't make it through much of the program, but here I am! I can do about five traditional-form on-the-floor pushups now, which is making me seriously consider starting all over with traditional form instead of modified. :D

[yeloson]

Energy has been low this week, so I've been doing about 80% of the reps I normally do.

On the flip side, I've added declined pushups to the mix by posting my feet up on the couch while doing the push ups. Wears me out a LOT faster.

Also low stance stuff in silat has been doing good things for my quads.

[zennish]

Crossfit twice this week - cut my wall balls time from 11:30 to 5:30 (\o/, though I'm still getting hit in the face with the ball half the time), maxed out at three deadhang pull-ups, seven kipping pull-ups (no band, woo).

Getting better at my snatch, though my clean-and-jerk is kind of terrible for the shoulder. 25 reps at 65 lbs and things were starting to tilt badly, though it's not hurting too bad today.

[rydra_wong]

maxed out at three deadhang pull-ups

ROCK ON. That's serious stuff.

[natmerc]

Hate those wall balls. Great reduction on time!

[supermouse]

I've been using my energy in other ways and I am still M.E.ish, so no Lifting Heavy Things for me this week (or Pulling Rubbery Things, as I actually do). On the other hand, admitting this out loud means I will woman up and Pull Rubbery Things as soon as I can this coming week.

I can't wait to get over the current rough patch, as I am actually pretty eager to try a Turkish Get-Up. It looks fab. I have a stuffed fabric door stop with a handle on it that I can use as my first weight, and then adjust up or down from there.

[resolute]

While waiting in the doctor's office for my physical, I did squats. I AM a heavy weight!

[lyorn]

Routine. Two times to the gym for back trainig and interval running. I can do the "arms from front to side at shoulder height" at the pulley machine with two sets of 15 at 4 kg now, and the "pull from above down to arms pointing to ground and a little back" (dang, there *have* to be names!) in three sets of 12 with 9 kg. And two sets each of 15 legs-in-the-air ab crunches and 15 deep squats!

No progress on the push-ups, because my shoulder is still less than enthusiastic about them and the pain is radiating down.

[laurashapiro]

My shoulder is finally healed enough that I got back to the gym after a month off. Boy, am I a weakling! And a still occasionally ouchy one, too, dammit.

Given the injury I am focusing on non-shoulder-involving activities, so this week:

Step-ups (30 lbs) 2x10
Squats (20 lbs) 2x10
Rows (50 lbs) 2x10
Bicep curls (20 lbs) 2x10
Assorted abs & stretching

[cereta]

Step-ups look like something I would like, given how much I do step for aerobics. Also, that's everything I need to strengthen, given that it's getting haaaaard to carry small person up the stairs.

[laurashapiro]

I quite like them. They're challenging but not excruciating, and kind of fun, actually.

[umbo]

Managed to work out three times this week (although next week's going to be another story). Today with my trainer I did a 40 second plank, then 20 crunches, then a 35 second plank, then 15 crunches, then a 30 second plank, then 10 crunches, then a 25 second plank and 7 more crunches. Also chest press, something she called an Arnold press, squats of a couple different kinds with weights, flys, bicep curls and tricep lifts.

[sophiap]

Lifted on Monday and Wednesday and will be lifting this afternoon, which will put me halfway through Phase 7 (the last phase) of NRoL4W. This phase is a beast, and starts off with short sets of squats, chest press/row alternates, or deadlifts. It then goes into a fast rotation of four other exercises (including dumbell squats, romanian deadlifts, lat pulldowns, shoulder press, pushups, reverse crunches, stepups and lunges) that leaves me absolutely knackered at the end.

I've really enjoyed the program so far, and may cycle through it again before trying something else.