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NROL4W Stage 2
May. 8th, 2011 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daedalaStage 2 was difficult, and I worked hard throughout, but I only increased the weight on one exercise -- I was able to go from 15 lb dumbbells to 20 lb dumbbells on my front squat/push press. Not progressing was pretty disappointing! But this was kind of a lunge-heavy stage, and I have real trouble with lunges for mobility reasons (rather than strength). Also, my balance isn't as good as I would have thought, so I didn't increase the weight on the one-legged rows though my arms could have gone up quite a bit. (They call them one-point rows, but what that means is you have only one foot on the ground WTF are they crazy?) And my shoulders were of the opinion that if I wanted to do stupid stuff like internal rotations, I better not pick up a real weight.
Logistically, I found intervals after workout B pretty much impossible, so decided not to worry about it. I did intervals when I could; sometimes it was the same day, sometimes the day before or the day after the exercise. However, I love intervals. I made an interval mixtape that I use when biking or jogging very, very slowly.
I was always told I got out of breath exercising because I was out of shape. No, stupid doctors, I was out of shape because I had real breathing problems. If they'd ever tried a spirometer on me.... After I'd been lifting weights and swing dancing a few years and realized that I couldn't possibly be that out of shape, I insisted on getting tests and a diagnosis. I'm still working on the issue, but my exercise-triggered breathing problems don't have much of a chance to kick in with intervals, so I'm really hoping that the intervals will help me get something vaguely like cardiovascular conditioning.
Overall, though, I'm pretty happy that I got through all of Stage 2 in a month. Go me!
Now it's time for Stage 3 and... *hides* Have you seen the bodyweight matrix? You do it at the end of the workout.
Logistically, I found intervals after workout B pretty much impossible, so decided not to worry about it. I did intervals when I could; sometimes it was the same day, sometimes the day before or the day after the exercise. However, I love intervals. I made an interval mixtape that I use when biking or jogging very, very slowly.
I was always told I got out of breath exercising because I was out of shape. No, stupid doctors, I was out of shape because I had real breathing problems. If they'd ever tried a spirometer on me.... After I'd been lifting weights and swing dancing a few years and realized that I couldn't possibly be that out of shape, I insisted on getting tests and a diagnosis. I'm still working on the issue, but my exercise-triggered breathing problems don't have much of a chance to kick in with intervals, so I'm really hoping that the intervals will help me get something vaguely like cardiovascular conditioning.
Overall, though, I'm pretty happy that I got through all of Stage 2 in a month. Go me!
Now it's time for Stage 3 and... *hides* Have you seen the bodyweight matrix? You do it at the end of the workout.
