Training yesterday was innnnntense. I hit personal records with the leg press(360lbs ie four big plates each side) and deadlift (50 lbs). In the last week we also upped weighted lunges and compound dumbbell squat from 10lbs to 15 lbs each side. I think I might have muttered “I hate you” to Allan a couple of times but he remained unmoved.

Anyway after that it was an hour on the cross trainer with heart rate between 150 and 170. So this morning I am feeling it all over. All over. But it’s a great feeling and I’m happy to get DOMS at least once a week.

Gains have been good, he says I’m 70% stronger from August when I first started with him. But he keeps insisting I don’t give him 100%, which is a totally unfair characterization of my commitment. The gym is after all like my third home after the office. I’m such a familiar face that most of the other trainers know whose client I am (including a couple who’ve asked him if I’m single!) I’m even thinking about getting a permanent locker.

i nearly died at the gym this morning. i don’t know whether it’s because it’s that time of the month and i was just feeling super lethargic or because i haven’t fully gotten back into my exercise routine after my holiday. But after every set i just wanted to sit down and not get up. At one point I felt nauseous and so ass-whooped that I even stopped complaining. I think that was my trainer’s cue that I was really not up to an ‘intense’ session today and he let me off easy on some of the circuits.

alternating 3 x 15 reps

deadlifts (30 lbs)

dumbbell squat and press (10lbs each)

alternating 3 x 15 reps

vertical leg press (180 lbs, 230 lbs, 270 lbs)

one arm dumbbell snatch (10 lbs)

alternating 3 x 15 reps

bench press (???)

overhead tricep curl (20 lbs)

3 x 15 reps

assisted dips

1 x 15 reps

reverse crunch

three other sets of exercises targeting tricips and shoulders on the kinesis machine.