Tuesday
April 19, 2011
Trying to be more disciplined about exercise so I’m glad I didn’t cop out when my alarm buzzed at 6.15am this morning. Rolled out of bed and got to the gym by 7am and we did squats, deadlifts and tons of compound sets targeting the shoulders. Yesterday was an hour and a half on the cross trainer, with John Legend on the ipod. Yes, I’m still on a JL high from the weekend, where Shree and I were shaking our booties for about four hours straight. Too much jumping because I woke up with stiff knees the next morning. And tomorrow, tennis! I hope we get great weather because I’m dying to try my new skirt play.
Anyhoo today’s song is another one featuring the Legend, although technically it is a Kanye West work. I still love it and he did it so well on Saturday.
Friday
April 1, 2011
suffering bad DOMS today… everything hurts. glutes, hammies, groin, trapezius, deltoids. but not triceps. And I thought we were mostly targeting them yesterday. I’ve read that whether one experiences DOMS depends on a number of factors, most obviously how intense the activity was or its uniqueness. But other reasons include the amount of rest and recovery the body gets and diet. I think i’ve failed on the latter two this week. Must do better…
Tuesday
February 15, 2011
This evening I was a little late getting to PT and Allan had already set up the leg press machine, loaded with two 45 lb plates on each side for a total of 180 lbs. But when I got to the machine another guy was using it. Halfway through he asked if we were intending to use the machine and Allan said we could take turns as I would do deadlifts in between sets.
While I did my deadlifts Allan would load more plates onto the machine. On my third set he increased it to four plates on each side for a grand total of 360 lbs. And it was then that he pointed out, “The guy disappeared. He was pressing four plates and you are doing eight.”
Haha oops.
