Re: Post your daily exercise routine
And so we're back again with today’s catch-up, which was taken carefully. My back is much improved from yesterday’s extreme killer pain but the inflammation is still present and no way did it need further aggravation, therefore most of my planned exercises were either reduced in weight or discarded completely, depending on the extent of ‘pulling’ motion required.
An even bigger blow was experienced when BOTH leg presses were found to be out of order, a disastrous sight on what would have been predominantly a legs session. But I got around that in a fashion with some good hack squats – and surprisingly some very heavy weight, which didn’t niggle my niggle – so all in all a bit of a bodged session but it hit the spot and with no harm done...
Monday 29/8/16 – Legs, biceps:
1. Hack squat:
10x100
10x150
8x200
4x240
2. Extensions:
10x100
10x100
8x100
*These were paused for about 4 seconds at the top with a slight bounce to invigorate the top of the thighs. Really felt the burn there.
3. Seated ham curls:
11x75
7x80
*Not ideally a good exercise when the lower back starts to twinge. Left it at the 80kg.
4. Good girls:
37x60
23x60
18x60
5. DB hammer curl, alt:
8x15’s
8x15’s
8x15’s
*Some nice new 15kg dumbbells in the gym today, along with some other interim weights too. Saves taking a massive 2kg jump from a 14 to a 16 lol.
6. DB concentration curl, alt:
6x18
6x18
6x18
7. E-Z curl, preacher:
10x28
*I had planned some very heavy stuff on this today (43, 48+kgs) but felt these pull quite severely on my back, so wisely abandoned them after one set.
8. Single DB raise:
25x42
25x42
A few pulldowns on the vertical traction machine to stretch my back a bit.
9. Ab crunch:
16x60
*Again, never a good exercise when you have a dicky back, so stopped it.
Time: 45mins.
A vastly curtailed session but better than nothing I guess. I’ll rest tomorrow but return to the gym on Wednesday with hopefully a better effort.
Time to relax in the garden with Bob Harris’ autobiography and a litre of iced cranberry juice.
Thanks for popping in, hope the bank holiday’s going well