07-03-2018, 04:45 PM
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Re: Post your daily exercise routine
Best wishes to your dad, Surfermom. I'm sure the stents will help him with his breathing and make him better so he can carry on with his very active lifestyle.
Quick write-up, and it’s my mid-week session. Suffering a little with a migraine today which is probably caused by the bright lights at work but we can’t complain otherwise we get a ‘black mark’ against our name, such is the nature of the heirachy at my place of work.
As per last time, it was just a different selection of various exercises to keep my muscles and limbs supple and invigorated. Not to say that it wasn’t pretty strenuous because it was, but time is short and work rears its ugly head again tonight so I don’t want to be clapped out facing the mundane tedium of my job. How I wish these next two years would hurry up when I can get back to a normal way of life as I am reaching the point where I am more than fed up, I’m virtually depressed. But that’s a thread I may talk about thing in at a later date. The only reason I haven’t yet is because of the frivolous nature the general threads descend to and that would drag me down so a very low point indeed.
However, on with my write-up…
Wednesday, 7 Mar 18:
PUSH
Pec dec, 30kg:
30/25/22
Triceps pulldown, 41kg:
35/25/20
DB press, 20kg:
20/15/12
*I’m tempted to increase the weight on these dumbbells to 22kg, but I ‘m happy with the rep count, so I’ll leave it for a few more sessions.
PULL
E-Z bar preacher curl, 85° low pull, close grip, 28kg:
25/15/15
*This saw me increase the weight on the bar to 28kg from last week’s 23. This is the same weight I would normally be starting with if I was doing strength exercises with around 8-10 reps, so to curl 25 reps in a row was very pleasing indeed, plus the other two sets afterwards. The biceps are in terrific shape right now because of this new high rep training.
E-Z bar preacher curl, 45° standard pad, wide grip, 23kg:
20/15/15
*I do this ‘normally-positioned’ lift straight after the vertical pulls as using a wider grip on the bar works the inner ‘belly’ of the biceps which sometimes are left out when I’m focussing on the top peak of the muscle. Best to have an all-round shape to them I think. Again, up 5kg from last time.
Lat pulldown, underarm close grip, 40kg:
25/20/15
*Added a further 5kg to the stack this time around and managed the weight very well considering the increase.
LEGS
Sled press, 150kg:
35/25/25
*Just the one leg exercise today as they were still a tad tired from Monday’s pressing session. Bit of an effort on this to be honest, but I got through it.
45 minutes.
All well and good. Next session will be the weekend intense workout, probably on Friday, pending other tasks and chores!
Take care