Oct. 24: none.... another travel day

Oct. 25: 60 minutes boxing boot camp

Totals:
17 days
791 minutes

Tuesday, Oct. 26: 15:06 Concept II rower, 37 s/m, 2:32 500/m, 2,971, projected 5914
45 minutes weights, with trainer giving me a tip on skullcrushers that was extremely helpful.

45 minute spin class tonight, walking home in weirdly warm weather for the end of October, with a light pattering rain & the smell of wet autumn leaves & wet pine needles. A wonderful smell that makes me swoon a little.

saef, what are skullcrushers?

Jay

10/26:
15 mins recumbent bike, rolling hills program level 3
With 2x5# dumbbells, 10 each of:
- bicep curls
- tricep kickbacks
- overhead press
- bent over row
- lateral raise
- front raise
- L of YTWL
- W of YTWL
- bench press
- pec fly
- overhead raise while laying on back
- wrist curl
- reverse wrist curl
- sideways wrist curl
Then 10 each of:
- tricep dips on bench
- push-ups on my knees

Isn't that a great name, Jay? They are, I hope, going to be the salvation of my triceps. Or at least, they're one part of my plan to salvage my triceps from underneath the remaining bat wings.

Here's a video showing a guy with rather nice arms doing them.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercise...-triceps-press

How they get their name: Imagine if he let go at a crucial moment.

I use a 12-pound weighted bar.

Oh yeah, that. I just didn't know that name. Thanks!

Jay

Ow ow ow ow ow ow OW!!!

Which is to say, I started strength training yesterday.

October 26:
NRLW Stage 1, Workout A

4 sets of each
Squats w/ 50lbs
Seated Rows 35 lbs
Pushups x 15
Step-ups 10 lbs
Prone jack-knifes x 8

I am feeling muscles I didn't even know I had!

LOL Amy, don't overdo it! I'm super impressed that you could do so many squats w/50lbs.

Oct 27:
warmup walk, 2.24 mile run with the doggie 26:41, cooldown walk, stretching

Wednesday, Oct. 27:
45 minute spin class
35 minute Pilates routine

I sweat so hard during spin class that my glasses were covered with water droplets by the end. I wish I had little windshield wipers on them. We're having weirdly warm & humid weather, as though we've traveled back in time to mid-September. Except the maple trees are all aflame or losing their leaves & the air has that late fall smell.

Oct. 26: none

Oct. 27: 60 minutes spin class (I sweat a ton too!!)

Totals:
18 days
851 minutes

Oct 28:
- 5 min warmup on recumbent bike @level 3
- 3x10 step ups (no weight) alternating with
- 3x10 roman chair leg lifts
- 3x10 single-leg romanian deadlifts w/2x5# dumbbells alternating with
- 3x10 back extension
- 3x10 bulgarian split squat w/5# plate alternating with
- 3x10 oblique sit-ups each side
- inner and outer hip/thigh leg lifts
- 10 min stretching

Thurs., Oct. 28:
60 minutes arc trainer, resistance at 8, hill intervals
60 minutes Pilates class

Oct. 28: 60 minutes hip hop class

Totals:
19 days
911 minutes

Jessica, would you still be super-impressed with my squats if you knew I was still in ridiculous pain three days later? I had no idea I was overdoing it so badly. The first three sets weren't that hard!

October 28
3 mile run with stroller
34 minutes

October 29
Still haven't decided whether or not to run. I have to manage a first-grade Halloween party this afternoon, and don't know which I need more -- energy or stress relief!

ETA: Opted for stress relief and the optimistic hope that a slow 3-mile run might boost my energy.

Fri, Oct. 29:
15:06 on the Concept II rower, 37 s/m, 2:40 for 500 meters, 2,891 meters, projected 5,688 meters
45 minutes weight training
45 minutes arc trainer, resistance at 8, intervals

I'm also in awe of AmytheSame's 50-lb squats. The heaviest thing that I've picked up in the gym is a 40-lb. barbell. Though today the weights were out of order on the rack & I tried to move them around. I was able to pick the 90-lb barbell. But I just couldn't budge the 110-lb barbell. At all. Like, it didn't even rock back & forth a bit.