BRRRRRREAKTHROUGH!

BRRRR!!!!! It's FREEZING OUT THERE!! I must be out of my mind to go to the gym on a day like this!! It's almost single digits! And will be later in the week!!! Oh well, life must go on.

I had a great day at the gym today. Had a good breakthrough with myself. There are soooo many things at the gym that I have difficulty doing because of not having the use of my legs. It's super frustrating. And, when I started out with Adam trying to figure all of it out, like why certain exercises are so difficult, I would get so frustrated that I wouldn't even be able to talk to him. I think it was mostly embarrassment/a shot to the pride, because I need his help so much. He has shown me many, many exercises that I had never even tried before....therefore, I didn't know that I was going to need his help or what ways to tell him to help me or that I was going to need his help so much. But today, for only the second time, I was able to keep on working through the frustration and figure out and THEN EXPLAIN what the problem was. YAY!

So, today, I did military (shoulder) press on the Smith Machine. I did one arm at a time at 65 lbs., then I supersetted (did in between) both arms at 85 lbs. Somewhere around 10 reps a piece...plus we did a lot of negatives (I come down as slow as possible, and he pulls it back up) and he had me bring it down and hold it there for 3 seconds before pushing it back up. That is NOT easy to do 5 times after you've done a set of 10...heck, it's not easy BEFORE a set of 10! LOL. We found that now that I'm not injured anymore, my left arm is stronger...by about 3 reps! Then we did Cable Lateral Raises (raising my arms above my head at my sides, straight out), both single arm, and then at the same time. When I did both at the same time was the major frustration...I couldn't do it, without him holding me down. But, we worked through it. He called me stubborn, because I wouldn't stop trying and just go back to single arm, which I know surprises all of you!! (haha). We figured out that I need to say my hips are the problem, not my legs. I've never used them, so it's hard for me to know what the problem is and it's hard for an able-body to realize just how much their legs are used! In ALL exercises! So, anyway, I did 20 lb. Cable Lateral Raises, and then I did 40 lb. Cable Front Raises. And then I did Cable Bicep Curls. I'm not sure what the weight was. But, I thought I was getting away with murder, because I pumped 20 out like it was a piece of cake...then he made me do negatives and hold those too!!! And the same for my skull crushers!!! THAT was brutal...the bar weighs about 25 lbs or something like that, then he had 10 lbs. on each side, and I was on my back, and brought the bar down to my forehead...it's a tricep exercise, for those of you that don't know...and they are NOT fun to do with negatives...but they are my favorite tricep exercise. All my reps today were about 10-12 each, and I did like 4 sets of the military press and everything else was like 2 sets. I was real happy with how well I did

So! That's a day in the life of training Chelsi...no, that's a day in the life of working out one of Adam's routines. Adam would have to blog about a day in the life of training Chelsi, and I don't think I want him to!! lol.