Weekly Post: What I did

[cereta]

You know the drill! Tell us what you did this week!

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[cereta]

I'm not sure I can remember everything I did in my training sessions to list, but some standouts:

My trainer is very into combos. The one that nearly killed me was two 15lb dumbbells: deadlift, pull up, squat, press.

Also, I'm up to 40 lbs total on squats.

Also, bridges with leg lifts. OMG, nearly killed me.

[umbo]

I had a good week! Twice did cardio/treadmill but with 10 pound weight to do various arm things with, twice did half an hour of strengthy stuff in my spare room (planks, push-ups, one-leg crunches, squats, and stuff with my 8# weights), and I just got home from a kickass workout with my trainer where I did elbow planks for the first time ever, among other things. Every muscle in my body is going to be aching the righteous ache tomorrow!

[cereta]

Elbow planks, yay! Planks are awesome for so many things.

[xochiquetzl]

Highlights, since I do a split routine: Bench press/lat pulldown 70 pounds, quads/hams 80 pounds, biceps/triceps 20 pounds, shoulders 12/15. Pushups, crunches, back extentions. I did some negative-only pullups that totally kicked my ass, but I plan to keep doing them.

Incline chest fly is currently 25 pounds, as is the row. My squats and lunges are with 30 pound dumbbells, and I still want to go out and buy 35s, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It's still not like using a ketchup bottle for resistance so I still have time. ;)

[jezzyra]

I had my first sessions with my personal trainer this week. The first day (Tues) was kinda a blur. I know I had issues not holding my breath while doing the workouts my trainer walked me thru and having high blood pressure...well that's not a good thing. She had me do a lot of squats though and I felt it 3 days after even. (Plus doesn't help that I'm greatly out of shape...but I'm working on that.)

My second session on Friday was much better. I finally worked on my coordination with lifting and breathing so I didn't have a repeat of tues. I also told my trainer that my upper body/abs were not even sore from last time and we did a few things with them. Well she certainly took note; had me do several tricep/bicep exercises...some rowing, pull downs, etc. She pushed me on weight and I was actually surprised at how much I could do (honestly can't remember what each one was or the weight I did). Worked on abs as well, some lovely crunches and sided to side medicine ball moves; also worked the hamstrings with a kettle ball which was a nice exercise. OH and she also had me do this ab workout I dubbed "the Superman." Twenty seconds seems like FOREVER!

SO in a nutshell, that's what I did. Oh plus some cardio...interval walking on my down days from training.

[daedala]

I'm taking a week off; it's been six weeks since we started the program, so it's not a big deal. J's been getting more migraines than usual, and I've been sore all the time, and generally not feeling great. So we'll start again Wednesday.

[zennish]

Overhead squats all over the place - since I started really going on them a month ago I've gone up 20 pounds in weight: 55lbs for 100 reps (not in a row!) - still not an enormous amount (compared to others in the gym), but considering the finicky SI joint and the passive-aggressive rotator cuff(s), that isn't all that bad.