Good afternoon everyone!
Mel - beautiful baby! I have a cat who turned 8 this year, I sometimes think she needs another animal around the house to help keep her fit! I'm figuring that we are close to getting a dog, as DSS is now 4 and starting to talk about them more... Always had dogs as a kid, never had one as an adult...
Silver - I don't find myself snacking when I'm in a big time stressful situation, but I do snack when I'm surrounded by minor annoyances. Example, didn't really snack when I was staying overnight several nights at the hospital with my MIL, snack every time my computer locks up and I have to reboot. Maybe it is because of the external activity required in the different slightly out of control times? When it is a really intense thing going on we are too busy or distracted to snack, but if we are dealing with smaller annoyances the snack is the distraction?
Lydia - I have a hard time with late hours myself, I'm always worn out the next day. So are you guys definitely moving?
Nelie - that sounds like a pretty neat area of study to me, but I've always had 'nerd' jokes pointed in my direction, too!
Elisa - Happy Canada Day to you! Have a great week of vacation!
Cheryl - wonder why the left hand v. the right hand made a difference on the squat... odd.
I did my strength training again yesterday and got totally carried away again. I'm going to put a thumbnail list of exercises, and welcome any advice on anything that seems redundant or over the top.
(I might not get all the names right, and I didn't do them all in this order.)
70 mins total, plus 20 mins cardio:
Ball:
12 pike, 25 hamstring curl, 15 jacknife, 15 leg lifts, 15 torso lift (looks like the front half of a 'superhero fly'? I saw it on YouTube), 4 pushups with feet on the ball,
Weider:
2x15 cable squat:320 'lbs' resistance, 2x10 high reverse fly:150 'lbs' of resistance, 2x10 standing row:150 'lbs' resistance
Dumbbell (the ones with 13 pounds I was holding an 8 & a 5 layered in the same hand, that wore out pretty fast, I need to buy 10s or an adjustable):
30 walking lunge with 8lbs per hand, 15 reverse lunge per side/8 lbs per hand, 15 squat to shoulder press/8 lbs per hand, 20 stepups on my stepladder/13 pounds per hand, 12 one armed row per arm with knee on ball/13 pounds, YWLT/1x10 each/8 lbs per hand, 10 one legged squat per side/5 lbs per hand, 25 bicep curls/8lbs per, 10 tricep kickback per/8 lbs, 20 shoulder press/sitting on ball/8 lbs per hand, lateral raise/2x10/8lbs per, 1x30 calf raise with 8 lbs per hand, 20 chest press lying back on the ball/8 lbs per hand
Other:
Pushups - 1x12, 1x7, 1x5
One legged bridge with foot on weight bag:15 per leg
ab series from '10 min ab' on demand - ten minutes of crunches, bicycle, reverse crunch, etc.
'peeing dog' (got it from Amanda
) - 20 per side
20 mins of light stationary bike to unwind after all of this.
Wow - that made me tired writing it all down... My biggest thing right now is trying to do full body workouts, because I know I'm lucky to get two days of strength training in per week, sometimes I make three, the last two weeks I've made one... I would never find the time for splits... I started with a basic full body workout from ExRx.net which said 'one exercise per part, most of them compound', wrote down my selections and few alternates and some optional isolation exercises, got all carried away and now do most of the alternates, all the main ones and some more I added in... So, other than starting over clean at ExRx again, any suggestions?
Have a good day everyone!