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lifting_heavy_things2011-10-15 06:34 pm
weirdquark) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2011-10-15 06:34 pm
Did a pull-up!
I was going to make a post about how I finished stage 6 of NRoLfW today, but it occurred to me that since this was stage 'do-a-pull-up' I should see if I could actually do a dead-hang pull-up, so I hung off the edge of the bunk bed (the closest thing I have to a pull-up bar) and very very slowly managed to haul my chin up to the level of my hands! I am now alternating between bouncy and not actually believed that I managed it, so I suspect that throughout the evening I'll have to stop what I'm doing and go try again.
Whoo, pull-up! Next step, two consecutive pull-ups!
Anyway.
Workout A
Negative pull-ups: Longest I managed was about 12 seconds, but I was doing these off the edge of the bunk bed and there was friction between me and the bed, so I don't really know if this increased or decreased the time I could have done this off an actual bar.
Horizontal pull-ups/inverted rows (Replaced lat pull-down): I did these hanging off the edge of the bunk bed too, with my feet raised on a Swiss ball that I placed on the bed below. I had been strapping weight to my chest to make these harder, but for the final day where I was supposed to test how many I could do without stopping, I just used body weight and managed 10.
Barbell split-squat: 71 lbs, 2 sets of 10
Push-ups: Feet raised on the window seat, 1 set of 29, 1 set of 25.
Workout B
(Everything here is 2 sets of 10)
Reverse lunge, one dumbbell on shoulder: 25 lbs
Dumbbell two-point row: 40 lbs
Dumbbell push-press: 2x27.5 lbs (Except here, where I only managed 8 reps on the second set.)
Back extension on Swiss ball: 27.5 lbs
Swiss ball jackknife (replaced reverse crunch on incline bench because I don't have an incline bench): No weight, just tried to do them as slowly as I could. Balance sometimes failed me throughout the month, but somehow I managed today without falling over.
Afterwards I tried doing pull-ups off the side of the bunk bed not from a dead hang (about 8 inches above my head; if my arms had been straight it would have required 16) and managed 6 in a row. The last time I tried doing that I think I only managed two. Still, I did not think to do a dead hang pull-up until after I had started those, and after I had done those, there was no way my tired arms could manage it.
Eee, pull-up!
Whoo, pull-up! Next step, two consecutive pull-ups!
Anyway.
Workout A
Negative pull-ups: Longest I managed was about 12 seconds, but I was doing these off the edge of the bunk bed and there was friction between me and the bed, so I don't really know if this increased or decreased the time I could have done this off an actual bar.
Horizontal pull-ups/inverted rows (Replaced lat pull-down): I did these hanging off the edge of the bunk bed too, with my feet raised on a Swiss ball that I placed on the bed below. I had been strapping weight to my chest to make these harder, but for the final day where I was supposed to test how many I could do without stopping, I just used body weight and managed 10.
Barbell split-squat: 71 lbs, 2 sets of 10
Push-ups: Feet raised on the window seat, 1 set of 29, 1 set of 25.
Workout B
(Everything here is 2 sets of 10)
Reverse lunge, one dumbbell on shoulder: 25 lbs
Dumbbell two-point row: 40 lbs
Dumbbell push-press: 2x27.5 lbs (Except here, where I only managed 8 reps on the second set.)
Back extension on Swiss ball: 27.5 lbs
Swiss ball jackknife (replaced reverse crunch on incline bench because I don't have an incline bench): No weight, just tried to do them as slowly as I could. Balance sometimes failed me throughout the month, but somehow I managed today without falling over.
Afterwards I tried doing pull-ups off the side of the bunk bed not from a dead hang (about 8 inches above my head; if my arms had been straight it would have required 16) and managed 6 in a row. The last time I tried doing that I think I only managed two. Still, I did not think to do a dead hang pull-up until after I had started those, and after I had done those, there was no way my tired arms could manage it.
Eee, pull-up!
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