Zen and the lifting of heavy things.

“You going to train trapeze on that diet, fat boy?”

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Daily progress.

Barbell rows:  1×8@88, 2×8@110. Got through the first set thinking “Wow, my form is fine and this feels so easy!”. Oh, right, I moved up a little….

Military press: 5@88, 8/7@66.  Huzzah.

Vertical rows: 2×8@49.  And again.

Bench press: db, 2×8@54.  Double wewt.

Squats: 12/9@108. Mmm, shooting pains through the left knee.

kb lifts: 2×20@54. These nearly killed me today. Literally, nearly dropped a 54 pound dumbell on my head.

Pushups: 25/20 inclined.

Raised leg crunches: Nope. Running late, I’ll do some at work. Oh, all right then. 70@22.

posted by tyggerjai at 10:38 am  

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Daily Progress.

Barbell rows: 2×8@110. I am unconvinced about my form for this one. But half of each set seemed hard, so hey.

Military press: 6@88, 8@66. Not too bad. The trouble is, 22lb is my minimum increment on the barbell.

Vertical rows: 2×8@44

Bench press: db, 2×8@49. Wewt.

Squats: 2×12@98

kb lifts: 2×20@54. These nearly killed me today. Literally, nearly dropped a 54 pound dumbell on my head.

Pushups: 25/20 inclined. My *legs* started to fail on these, which is odd. Too much running at boot camp :)

Raised leg crunches: 75/45/25@22.

That would be “back into it with  vengeance”, then. See if I can keep increasing Tuesday!

posted by tyggerjai at 11:41 am  

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Daily Progress.

Barbell rows: 2×8@88

Military press: 2×8@66

Vertical rows: 2×8@44

Bench press: db, 2×8@44

Squats: 2×12@88

kb lifts: 2×20@54

Pushups: 25/20

Crunches: 70/30/20@22. No raised legs.

Well, I was expecting worse after 2 weeks off. I should have done some pushups/situps over the break, but I don’t seem to have gone backwards, and I did appreciate the rest. Everything comes up a few pounds on Sunday though.

posted by tyggerjai at 10:14 am  

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Daily progress.

Barbell rows:2×8@88

Bench press:db, 2×8@44

Military press:2×8@66

Vertical rows:2×8@44

Squats: Nope. Leg day yesterday, y0.

kb lifts: 20/19@54

Pushups:25/15

No crunches. I free myself from the tyranny of ab work every fucking day, I’m on holiday.

posted by tyggerjai at 5:00 pm  

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Daily Progress

Barbell rows:2×8@88

Bench press:db, 2×8@44

Military press:2×8@66

Vertical rows:2×8@44

Squats: 2×8@132

kb lifts: 2×20@54

Pushups: 25/23, feet on the couch.

Raised leg crunches: 80/45/35@22lb.

More pushups! I love the first week of a new workout, when my body is just a mess of sore. I did ask myself if I could just pretend to do the last set of crunches, and answered myself that that was fine, and then I could keep pretending to have a body like Vin Diesel.

posted by tyggerjai at 10:38 am  

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Daily Progress

Barbell rows:2×8@88

Bench press:db, 2×8@44

Military press:2×8@66

Vertical rows:2×8@44

Squats: 2×8@132

kb lifts: 2×20@54

Pushups: 25/15, feet on the couch.

Raised leg crunches: 80/40/30@22lb.

Nice. And pullups at work.

posted by tyggerjai at 10:56 am  

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Daily Progress.

Barbell rows:2×8@66

Bench press:3×8@66

Military press:2×8@66

Vertical rows:2×8@44

Squats: Not after yesterdays leg-killing bootcamp.

kb lifts: Not with this sore elbow.

Pushups: 25/20, feet on the couch.

Raised leg crunches: 55/40/30@22lb. Jess and I were just talking yesterday about how sometimes crunches just hurt, and we can’t work out why. I suspect no ab work for the last week is a contributing factor.

So, eh. I skipped lifting Sunday and Tuesday while my elbow recovered from whatever I’ve done to it – today was a little light because of that still. We’ll see how it goes. When I get to work, lots of pullups! For the record, this took an hour, so on par with my last workout.

posted by tyggerjai at 10:07 am  

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