The Ante Is Upped!

Adam said he was going to up the ante on my workouts, and that he did! This week I started doing a half hour with Adam and a half hour by myself after Adam, with things that he's figured out I can do on my own. Actually, Monday, he stayed with me extra long to see how everything went, cuz he had time and he's just nice like that :-) Today though, I did the second half by myself. It's been awesome. I get to work out harder with him, because we don't have to cram so much stuff in.

Today the only things I did with him were bent over rows starting with a 45 lb bar and we went up to 75 lbs (I THINK!), the same type of concept only I held the bar over my head and pushed up to straighten my arm with the 45 lb bar and i think we went up to 55 lbs on that, and then we did close grip pull down...oh! and lateral raises with 10 lb plates. The close grip was weird...I did 20 reps at 150 lbs on the cable in the weight room, and went out to the front room to another cable and I could hardly get 100 lbs!!! Very odd...Adam says that's why people get so confused. He's not sure which is accurate, but apparently one of them isn't! I did 3 sets of everything, plus a burnout set of as many as I could do with the bar on both the row things.

On my own I did pull ups, which I wasn't impressed with myself on. I did four sets, 6, 5, 4 & 4 reps. But, I guess that isn't bad considering A) he wasn't helping me, B) it was after I worked out with him, and C) he had me pull up and hold for a second, then come back down...that makes a BIG difference. Then I did Military Press on a machine at 90 lbs, 4 sets of 15, I did wrist curls, 3 reps, and then I did some side bends for abs. The wrist curls are VERY interesting. They don't look like much when someone else does them, but it's all I can do to get 3 reps out!! I hold a wooden bar with a rope tied around it and at the end of the rope is a 5 lb plate. You have to roll the plate up to the bar and then roll it back down....controlled. Try it sometime!

So, that was that...normal day...I needed a normal day though. It was great. I had fun, as usual. And I feel like I worked hard. I finally feel like I'm getting my focus back. I was definitely more into it today than I have been for a while.