Re: Post your daily exercise routine
I’m not the wisest of folk. I’m gullible, impatient, frivolous and I don’t think things through enough. Which is why I’ve ended up in a meagre financial mess at the age of 51. But there’s worse off and there is a glimmer of twinkling light there in the distance.
And I’ll never be set in my ways. Same with music. I can’t listen to yer general, run of the mill “80’s Hits Radio”, I need something new all the time and regularly only ever play an album the once, unless it’s an absolute classic (like the entire Pink Floyd output of course).
Furthermore, I’m also susceptible to some wild ideas with my training as well. I can’t stand still. I can’t do the bodybuilding handbook these days like I used to do. I need to change things every single session to keep me interested and motivated. But I remain pretty well built in all the important areas, whether that’s by doing text book sets or mixing things up to my own wayward and erratic spec….and I’m still at it and I have no intention of stopping for a long time just yet. So all must be good. I think….
…Or so I thought. Today was a killer of a session and the main reason was because I’m always awake in the middle of the night at weekends, sometimes a couple of times for maybe two hours each. Telly goes on, a box set goes in and Breaking Bad airs once again. When I do get to sleep properly I don’t see the light of day until 11-12 o’clock. All to do with working nights, which is now beginning its 12th year and you just never get used to the body clock fvcking your mind and soul up.
Back to today and the pre-planned legs session I had written out was, on paper, do-able. But as soon as I began I was wondering what I had taken on. I felt exhausted pretty much instantly and also bloated from a bowl of porridge eaten too soon before my workout. All through my session I felt physically sick because of the wild idea of inserting sets of high reps all over the shop.
But even though I ended up missing out a few sets, I got through it. Here’s how it went…
Sunday 14/8/16 – Legs:
1. Incline press:
20x150 w/u
12x200
12x250
12x300 – 2 sets
10x350
25x250 high reps PB (reps, twice)
25x250 high reps
16x230
*Wanted to go for the 400 but knew it would finish me off, so bottled it and did some fast reps instead. Never done high reps at that weight before, but they went up easy so I did an extra couple of sets, as you do.
2. Seated leg press:
15x200
30x120 high reps
15x200
20x120 high reps
*This was an interesting option. Doing some alternate heavy/high reps. Made the quads feel quite confused. So did a similar thing with extensions…
3. Extensions:
20x80 high reps
10x100
20x60 high reps
10x100
20x50 high reps
*Whatever you may think to my bizarre sequencing, this in between high reps scenario made the thighs blow up like crazy.
4. Seated reverse ham curls:
10x75
8x80
20x50 high reps
5. Hack squat:
6x200
6x200
3x200
*This is a major exercise because of the weight and should have been done earlier but I just couldn’t get on it. The first time it was being used by an enormous Chinese fella seemingly taking forever to push 30 kilos, and then by a couple of Instagram chicklets pottering about using it for calf presses. Sometimes I don’t feel that ridiculous after all! I’m still rockin’.
6. Good girls:
32x60
22x60
17x60
7. Bad girls:
20x60
18x60
18x60
8. Seated press (again):
34x150 high reps
Sat down at my usual finishing post they call the ab crunch machine and I just felt wasted. I couldn’t even be bothered to move forward an inch, so bottled that too. Make up for it tomorrow. And by and by, it wasn’t so bad after all though I haven’t felt this knackered for yonks.
Time: 1hr. 10mins.
I'm home alone all next week. The OH is going to the seaside for a cheapo caravan break with her daughter and her little 'un, so I can do as I please (making sure I complete a things-to-do from the inevitable Post-It of course). Thanks for reading. [
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