sorry to hear about the ant situation. hope things fall back into place soon for you.
Hey Belle, Glad to hear you’re keeping active while the apt is getting fumigated!
I’m with Mel, I don’t care for machines myself (altho I just started using the leg press and kinda love it…), but a good mixture of Dbs, BBs and machines will do a body good.
Keep up the great work!
I made it to the gym tonight after work. I even tried something new. I got on the leg press and I loaded it up to 180lbs and I used that as my warm up and then I tried it with one leg! and I did it. I couldn’t get all the way down, but I did pretty good. So then I new I wasn’t pushing myself hard enough.
Step ups
10 x each leg holding 25lb db
reverse crunches
running lunges (those are hard for me so no weight)
assisted pull ups
leg press 270lbs, also worked the calves
reverse crunches again
I was feeling good and my legs were done so I just took a moment to relax and recover. I went to the cardio machines and I walked on an incline for 20 minutes.
Nutrition has been pretty good. I had pizza yesterday and it was so good! I did feel bad afterwards but I did like it while I was eating it.
I have not gone missing I have been keeping up with things. I have been trying out the classes at my gym and I have found that the yoga/pilates classes are something that I am going to keep doing. The Spin class was too hot, I had a hard time staying at a steady pace.
I have been going to the gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday and then either on Saturday or Sunday.
I don’t have a set list of what I have been doing but as someone suggested I do focus on either lower or upper. I have been a little all over the place because I have been taking advantage of gym staff and asking them how to use the Hammer Strength machines.
I was trying to get a bunch of things under my belt so I have options.
My only question is can I do the same upper and lower workout for a while before I need to change things up?
Unless I’m mistaken you can probably stay on the same program for 8 weeks before swiching things up. Some people go as long as 12 weeks.
good for you for sticking with it and experimenting to see what you like and what works for you
cheers
N
You can stay with the same workout for awhile, but you need to challenge yourself by adding a little more weight or another rep or two at least every other time. The body has an amazing ability to adapt to exercise and needs to be constantly challenged to continue to see gains.
Kudos for asking questions and gaining knowledge.
Hammer makes good solid, easy-gliding machines. They are a good intro to “lifting,” enabling a new lifter to begin adjusting to loading the joints and muscles without the need for stabilization which is an extra neural drain and can slow progress at the beginning. Building pushing/pulling confidence is an overlooked aspect of training novices in my opinion.
Eventually, you’ll likely want to learn to move a weight with the body unsecured (standing free as one lifts) as this creates the greatest amount of good stress and builds an athletic body, promoting the most spatial and body awareness. You’ll become more coordinated and balanced by using free weights in other words.
Read some of your posts elsewhere and it’s obvious you’re serious about this stuff. Keep at it.