Weekly Feature: What I did

[cereta]

My sincerest apologies for falling down, here. I've had some minor but distracting health problems of late. As a side note, if anyone is interested in co-modding, please contact me.

And now: what did you do?

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[sophiap]

I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope things are improving for you.

As for workouts, I'm going to cycle through NRoL4W again before trying a different program. At some point, I'll do a full writeup of how things went on my first time through the entire program.

Anyhow, here's this week's program:

Monday and Saturday

2 sets of 12 squats at 65#
2 sets of 12 pushups at a 45 degree angle
2 sets of 12 seated rows at whatever "12.5" is on the cable station.
2 sets of 12 stepups w/ 25# dumbells and 4 risers (Monday) went to 5 risers and dropped to 20# on the second set (Saturday)
2 sets of 10 prone jackknifes. Fell off the Swiss ball three sets out of four. Saturday, ended the final set with a relatively smooth dismount. Measurable improvement! Yay!

Thursday

2 sets of 12 deadlifts at 95#
2 sets of 12 shoulder press w/ 2 9# dumbbells
2 sets of 12 lat pulldowns at 75#
2 sets of 12 lunges w/ 2 20# dumbbells
2 sets of 10 swiss ball crunches w/ 12# medicine ball held overhead. Fell off Swiss Ball once.

One nice thing about cycling through the same program I started 8 months ago is that I can go back to my old workout logs and see how I've improved, and where I've had the most rapid (or the slowest) strength gains. I can even see that I'm falling off the Swiss Ball a lot less than I used to.