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I know it's been a while, but: what did you do this week?

Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I would love an icon for posts about lifting heavy things. So I'm putting out a call. Ideas? Icons you want to share?

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I've started working with a trainer again, so there was lifting this week. We're mostly concentrating on upper body and core right now, although I am very, very proud that I can do a near-perfect squat with no balance aid, and have slowly started adding weight to it. I'm up to eight squats with 10 lb dumbbells in each hand.

The core stuff we're doing is brutal, mostly involving lots and lots of planks with variations. For example, the newest one is a push-up plank where I bring one leg forward (toe on floor in line with my other knee), hold for 3-5 seconds, then put it back and do the other leg, and repeat as many times as I can. I'm up to three reps, although the thing that inevitably causes me to fail is my hands or feet slipping or my arms giving out. I'm doing lots of stuff like that, push-up and elbow planks where I lift a leg, or switching from one to the other. If I may boast a little, my trainer says I'm way ahead of the three basketball players he's training in the plank area.

What's shocking to me with all that is that I have very little soreness the next day (or the day after; I'm told 48 hours later is max soreness). I don't know if that's good or not ;).

I have to say that, from where I am, where you are seems unimaginably far away. It's great to read.
If it is bad to not hurt, your trainer will no doubt pick up on your lack of progress quickly enough. Keep on rocking!

Heh. In fairness, my endurance is crap, and I lost ground from last spring on lifting. But I had been keeping up the elbow planks on the WiiFit, so I have the basic plank down pretty well. These variations are brutal, though. I kind of love them ;).