End Deload.

WHEW! Made it through another deload week ;-) Actually, deloads are starting to get a little better....as my bench goes up, so does the weight I get to do during deload week!

Very short day today. Very good day today :-)

Bench - 95 lbs for warm up. 135 lbs., 13, and then 3 sets of 5. The new bench material is COMPLETELY AMAZING. SO easy for me to get my arch and keep it. I don't slide AT ALL.
Tricep Pushdowns - I think we were up to 80 lbs. by the last set. Did about 12, 3 sets or so. Brian brought out his genius-self again today to strap me down better. It worked very well.
Shoulder Horn - 10 lbs., 2 sets of 25.
Front Raises - 15 lbs., like 3 sets I think, but not many reps, 8 or so I think. I think Brian's determined to make me like front raises.....don't tell him, but it's starting to work ;-) Today he strapped me much different and it felt much safer and made it a lot easier to concentrate the work on my shoulders instead of keeping steady or held down. They're still a hard exercise...and he's NOT allowed to move from behind me when I'm doing an exercise, no matter how strapped in I am...but, it worked out a lot better than usual. :-)

Stretching!!!!!! Love that part. I need to remember to include it more often, cuz he takes extra time to do it every day, and it helps me feel so much better.

And I forgot to mention on Wednesday that my cousins Patrick and Jack came to the gym to see me and meet Brian. :-D Made me very happy!!!

I have a very specific prayer request for all of my pray-ers out there. I found this machine from a company called NuStep. It's a stationery bike, but you can strap your feet onto the pedals, and you can order these accessories called leg stabilizers that hold the knees up, and you make the pedals of the feet move with your hands!!! SOOO I could exercise my legs!!!! EXTRAORDINARILY expensive...just keep it in prayer that one way or the other it could be that I come up with one. Thanks so much!