07.04.07
Workouts week 26, 2007
Just a quick post to get this up here and checked off my list.
06.18.07
Workouts week 24, 2007
And now for last week’s logs. I was catching up on the previous week with the last post.
Workouts week 23, 2007
I’ve got the beginnings of a new system. I figured out the printer at work also happens to be able to scan documents and send me a PDF, which makes doing it really easy. I have to scan as A5, rather than classic, but I only lose a few millimeters at the bottom. So without further ado, here are the workouts I did last week.
12.03.05
New Workout Log
Now that I’m subscribed to .Mac I have a much more clever and interesting way to track workouts. Since I already had a calendar for my future workouts, I figured I’d just publish it and link to it from here.
No, it’s not anything I couldn’t do with a regular web host and say PHP iCalendar. But that solution requires me to actually do work. Never-mind how little work it would have been. Well, I guess my webhost doesn’t support WebDAV, so there is that. Mostly this didn’t occur to me until after I got .Mac and it was brain-dead simple to do straight from iCal.
It’ll give me a nice clear indication of how much work I’m doing with very little effort. Especially the nicely highlighted dates in the left side four month calendar. It should be pretty clear to anyone who’s watching when I’m slacking off.
Update: It’s now linked from the sidebar.
10.23.05
Not quite a slacker.
Yep, it’s been a month since I posted last. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been a slacker. I just haven’t done quite as regimented workouts lately. Today I did 20 minutes on the recumbent bike and 15 on the elliptical. Both at the new gym. Me likely. I think I needed the variety.
Plus I got some personal training session. I think I’ll spread them out every 4-6 weeks and use it as a checkpoint rather than a reason to show up at the gym and have someone else make me workout.
09.07.05
Workout 2005-09-06
I’ve been slack. No excuses, really, just been slack, five days without a workout. This was last night…
Muscle Workout B
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Close-grip Incline Barbell Press 6t10t 4-6×4 170#x5/170#x5/170#x3/170#x1
Underhand-grip bent-over row (barbell) 4-6×4 150#x4/150#x4/150#x4/150#x4
Wide-grip Bench Press 3b6b 4-6×4 175#x5/175#x5/175#x5/175#x2
Odly, I backslid on close-grip incline bench. I’m not sure why. Wide-grip was essentially one extra rep total, even though I only put it up twice on the last set.
08.31.05
Workout 2005-08-30
Muscle Workout C
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Barbell Squat 4-6×4 230#x6/230#x6/230#x6/230#x6
Deadlift 4-6×4 185#x2
Romanian Deadlift 4-6×4 185#x4
Calf Raise 4-6×4 0#x10/0#x10/0#x10/0#x10
I couldn’t do deadlifts without my ankle hurting. I think it was the squats that exhausted it. When I was doing the romanian deadlifts it was twitching like crazy. I decided not to push it. If I have the same problem next week, I’ll switch to leg curls and extensions for the deadlift sets.
Unplanned rest week.
First I twisted up my ankle at soccer last week. Nothing bad, but I’ve regressed a bit in rehab. I’ve been babying it, but it’s mostly just a little weaker than before.
Second, I caught a head cold.
I had planned to take a week off the first week of September. I just moved that up two weeks. I’m back at it, but I have to baby the ankle a bit.
08.21.05
Workout 2005-08-20 (Mission accomplished)
Muscle Workout B
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Close-grip Incline Barbell Press 6t10t 4-6×4 170#x5/170#x5/170#x4/170#x4
Underhand-grip bent-over row (barbell) 4-6×4 140#x6/140#x6/140#x6/140#x6
Wide-grip Bench Press 3b6b 4-6×4 175#x4/175#x4/175#x4/175#x4
I also attempted a 200+ rep with the wide-grip bench. I failed at 205# (went down a little too far, coudln’t get back up despite much grunting) I managed to get 200# up once, elbows were at 90 degrees, so it’s a little less deep than I go on say 175# reps, first set. In any case, my goal for August is met.
That said, it was after my workout, so I was plenty exhausted from the other sets of bench.
Also, I missed the left pin on the very last rep of close-grip incline bench. I still got it over the pin so I’m counting it as a good rep, but I was too much forward for it to actually catch. Ooops.
I’m somewhat disappointed that close grip didn’t get any stronger. I’ve no clue if wide-grip got stronger, because I lowered the weight. It was the right thing to do, though, I suppose the lack of “improvement” is what drove me to attempt the 200# rep.