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May. 3rd, 2007 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I don't always exhibit this kind of good sense, but I've excused myself from going to the gym this week on account of the move. Next week is still open to debate, and I'll be out of the country for a week later this month, so May is going to wreak havoc with my usual schedule.
But it seems like a good time to post about what progress I've made in the three months or so since I started working out at the gym.
Mid-February, my numbers looked like this:
Here's what I'm doing now:
As you can see, I've added a couple of things, substantially upped my weight on a couple of things, minorly upped my weight on a few more, and changed nothing whatsoever about the back extensions and crunches. Can you tell my core muscles are weak?
I'm also doing 30 min. or so of cardio on the elliptical twice a week, with interval training instead on Saturdays. And I'm stretching: I can put myself on the floor again in the side splits (provided I approach it slowly), though on a good day I'm still four or five inches from the wall, which means we are not in walkover territory yet. Oddly, my front splits are making slower progress than the sides are, which I would not have predicted.
It is progress. I am not G.I. Jane-era Demi Moore yet; I cannot do a one-armed pushup like she's doing in my icon. I may never be there. But at least I can take some small satisfaction in watching my numbers go up.
But it seems like a good time to post about what progress I've made in the three months or so since I started working out at the gym.
Mid-February, my numbers looked like this:
- Bench press: 2 x 12-15, 12 lbs.
- Shoulder press: 2 x 15, 12 lbs.
- Row: 2 x 15, 5 lbs.
- Lat pulldown: 2 x 15, 30 lbs.
- Back hyperextensions: 2 x 12, no weight.
- Crunches: 2 x 15, no weight.
Here's what I'm doing now:
- Bench press: 2 x 12, 15 lbs.
- Shoulder press: 2 x 12, 15 lbs.
- Row: 2 x 15, 12.5 lbs.
- Upright row: 2 x 15, 12 lbs.
- Lat pulldown: 2 x 15, 45 lbs.
- Modified pulldown: 2 x 15, 45 lbs.
- Back hyperextensions: 2 x 12, no weight.
- Crunches: 2 x 15, no weight.
- Peggy spins: 32 cts. each side, 9 lbs.
As you can see, I've added a couple of things, substantially upped my weight on a couple of things, minorly upped my weight on a few more, and changed nothing whatsoever about the back extensions and crunches. Can you tell my core muscles are weak?
I'm also doing 30 min. or so of cardio on the elliptical twice a week, with interval training instead on Saturdays. And I'm stretching: I can put myself on the floor again in the side splits (provided I approach it slowly), though on a good day I'm still four or five inches from the wall, which means we are not in walkover territory yet. Oddly, my front splits are making slower progress than the sides are, which I would not have predicted.
It is progress. I am not G.I. Jane-era Demi Moore yet; I cannot do a one-armed pushup like she's doing in my icon. I may never be there. But at least I can take some small satisfaction in watching my numbers go up.
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Date: 2007-05-03 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-05-03 10:23 pm (UTC)Rock on!
I should really start doing that, myself. I got out of practice with weights when I developed an intense dislike for working out in front of all the Barbies at the SRSC, or in front of all the jocks at HPER.
(Though, I'm hoping that kendo club will have a reasonable practice time, this summer - one that does NOT involve practice from 9:30-11:30pm on a work/school night!)
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Date: 2007-05-03 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 10:38 pm (UTC)I wish I could stick with my work out routine. It's just so hard to, though. :(
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Date: 2007-05-03 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-05-04 01:29 pm (UTC)I read a comment on one of my dieting journals the other day where two people were discussing cardio -vs- weights and the one that stuck out to me was, "All the leg lifts in the world won't make you a runner. Running makes you a runner."
Soemthing in my head cleared about how I need to re-approach exercise. I need to just do it. If I can do 15 min of carido today, great. I'll try to do 20 next week. I need to track and be accountable.
And yes, I too wish for the one-armed pushup. Or at the very least, the ease at which Linda Hamilton was doing pullups in Terminator 2 I'll get there. Eventually. :)
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Date: 2007-05-04 04:41 pm (UTC)