Weekly post: What did you do?

[cereta]

Sorry, little late today. In my defense, I was lifting cat litter.

You know the drill! Whaddya do?

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[cereta]

This week, I mostly pushed around a lawn mower, stooped and bended for weeding a garden, and did a loooooot of lifting of the 25lb weight in my icon (I even did ten reps of overhead child lifts. Feel the burn!). I did some planks and lunges yesterday, and toted around a 40lb box of cat litter for a bit.

I'm falling out of routine, and I need to get back into it. I'm having minor surgery next week, and I don't entirely know how much that will derail me (it's very minor, but will involve stitches in my underarm), so I want to get two days in next week.

[alexseanchai]

Two sets of ten reps each of pushups (they're actually doable when instead of being on my knees, I have an exercise ball under my stomach), lots of different ways to pull a resistance band, squats, and going up on my tiptoes (apparently that's an actual exercise; who knew?). Ordering a set of resistance bands. Shoving the damn lawnmower around half the yard.

[lyorn]

This was an uninspiring week. My home workout does not flow quite right yet, no added weights, no progress in running, gym on Sunday routine, on Thursday I did only one super-set intead of the usual two, because there is "empty stomach", which makes it easier, and then there's "hungry enough to eat a horse", which doesn't.

[red_eft]

Am away from home and my weights, so I begun working on pushups, doing ten counter pushups throughout the day yesterday. Also tried squats, with rather less success- if I try to do a deep squat I keep falling (into the final squat position, so no harm done, but I doubt it's good form) and I could only manage five or so. But my legs are sore in that 'hello, we worked out a lot yesterday!' so I guess it's doing something!

[umbo]

Let's see, I did cardio only on Saturday (I think? maybe I didn't? I can't remember that far back!), Monday, and today, and did strength stuff plus cardio on Sunday, Tuesday, and Weds., including personal training session on Weds. Was supposed to do more today, but stupid car is in the shop so had to walk to apartment complex gym in 90+ degree heat, so I'm calling the cardio only a win for today.

[sophinisba]

I've been trying out some different exercise videos but have been a little frustrated because they're more oriented toward weight loss than I am. Also because I tried to do ab stuff but just ended up with a sore back and neck, I think because I do crunches wrong. :( It was somewhat gratifying after that to read in The New Rules of Lifting for Women that the author considers crunches to be mostly a silly exercise that puts you at risk of straining your neck, so I guess it's not just me.

Anyway, I wouldn't be able to list individual exercises but I did a 30-minute ab workout on Saturday (plus a few lat pulldowns at the gym); 20-minute lower-body workout on Monday; 40-minute core workout on Tuesday; and today I did 20 minutes each on core, lower-body and upper-body. I'm pleased that I was able to use heavier dumbbells on most of the exercises today than when I tried out the same upper/lower-body video last week.

(I also ran 18 and a half miles this week! \o/)

I just put my Netflix account on hold to save some money, and I'm hoping that next week, without the videos, I'll do some better lifting on my own - slower and with heavier weights.

[sophiap]

I started the Phase 3 workouts from "The New Rules of Lifting for Women," and while I find the dumbbell snatch great fun, the body-weight matrix was humbling. Very humbling. That was Tuesday and Thursday. Saturday was an 8-hour housework marathon with lots and lots of stairclimbing and furniture relocating.

Today, I added in a new daily exercise for my hamstrings (back on floor, heels on bench, knees and hips at 90 degrees, haul butt a few inches off floor w/o using abs, lower, repeat) that my chiropractor recommended so that they will balance out my quads, thereby stopping my quads from doing their best to rip my kneecaps off.

[laurashapiro]

Kept to my new regimen, increased the number of reps on practically everything! \o/

Still not toting truly heavy things yet, though. Next week I might try flys with 15 lbs in each hand. Wish me luck...

[gchick]

2 NROL workouts this week.