Feels good to feel strong, doesn’t it? Congrats on your continuing progress!
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Feels good to feel strong, doesn’t it? Congrats on your continuing progress![/quote]
OMG it does! I love knowing that the bar (45lbs) feels like NOTHING! I like knowing rack pulling 115lbs is LIGHT.
Your progress is amazing. It’s so cool seeing women of a certain age (
) not acting that age! Our bodies are in such better nutritional health than previous generations, even with all the bad food! Why not take advantage of that?
absolutely right! And I’m so glad that weight training will keep me young for years to come!!
Great work greenie! Your progress is super impressive.
Squats: 5 x bar, 10 x 65, 10 x 75, 5 x 85
DB Lunges: 10 x 10, 10 x 12.5, 10 x 12.5
Calf Raises: 8 x 20, 8 x 40
Leg Curls: 5 x 65, 5 x 80, 5 x 80
Cable Crunches: 10 x 40, 10 x 40
I’m trying to not rest as much between sets. It seems that I take about a minute rest between sets so I think I need to shorten that up.
I better step it up…reppin 85 for squats is pretty dang good!
Betty, thanx! Coming from you that means a lot!
Training:
Bench: 8 x bar, 5 x 65, 5 x 65, 3 x 70, 3 x 70. Got one extra rep at 65lbs!
Flys: 10 x 55, 10 x 55, 2.5 x 70, total fail on rep 3. 
DB Incline Press: 10 x 15, 6 x 15 (failed on rep 7), 10 x 15. The 15s were in the 12.5 spot and the 12.5s were in the 15 spot so when I went to grab the 12.5s I grabbed the 15s instead. I was like “wow, these feel heavy.” Went and sat down, looked at the weights and realized I had the 15s. I thought to myself, “well, I guess I can start with these.” So I did. 
love your attitude greenie. amd yeah for rep Pr’s!
I learned to deadlift today! I was very excited. I’ve watched many of the videos you ladies have posted so I know to KEEP MY BUTT DOWN!
Deadlift: 5 x 65, 5 x 65, 5 x 75, 5 x 75. These will take some getting used to as they have a bigger range of motion and my hands are pulled on more. I can’t explain that very well, but my hands blistered a lot faster doing these. Does that make sense?
Seated OHP: 10 x bar, 10 x bar. I was not feeling these at all so I stopped after 2 sets.
Wide Grip Pulldowns: 7 x 80, 4 x 90.
DB Triceps: Right: 8 x 10. Left: 10 x 5, 10 x 5. My left is weaker than my right. What would be the best way to bring it up? Do more sets with less weight while keeping my right at the same reps/weight?
Ugh I tried doing DLs without a glove and had to slip a pair on one set later. I don’t like holding any of the bars without gloves, I’m such a wimp Although your hands are pulled on more, never let your shoulders slump okay. Try to pull your shoulders back throughout the whole movement.
You didn’t like the seated OHP? Do you straighten your arms after you’ve cleared your face or do you keep the bar out at an angle.
For the DB triceps, start with your left tricep first. If your tricep can only do 10 reps before it gives, then only do 10 reps for the right tricep also. Don’t use different weights though.
My trainer’s philosophy was to let the left follow the lead of the right. You shouldn’t have different reps/weights because it will emphasize the differences instead of minimize them. I found with DB presses, for example, that I worked the lighter weight until my left was killing it and then would up the weight for both arms.
My left always lags behind the right but it also always catches up. You should do the same weights/reps on each arm until your left can do it as easily as the right and then increase the weight and repeat (just my experience/opinion).
The other way of handling a weak left side is to make that side do the same amount of reps as the right, even if you have to rest a moment to squeeze the last couple of them up. This was the advice Molly gave me on Kroc Rows. I don’t know how it would work with the triceps exercise.
I have a weaker left side, and I do more sets with the same weight on my left side to help catch it up with the right.
Is there one clear answer? Probably not. Experiment and see what works for you!
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Ugh I tried doing DLs without a glove and had to slip a pair on one set later. I don’t like holding any of the bars without gloves, I’m such a wimp Although your hands are pulled on more, never let your shoulders slump okay. Try to pull your shoulders back throughout the whole movement.
You didn’t like the seated OHP? Do you straighten your arms after you’ve cleared your face or do you keep the bar out at an angle.
For the DB triceps, start with your left tricep first. If your tricep can only do 10 reps before it gives, then only do 10 reps for the right tricep also. Don’t use different weights though.[/quote]
I like the seated OHPs usually, just wasn’t feeling them today.
Thank you, ladies! I will experiment and see what works best.
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
Ugh I tried doing DLs without a glove and had to slip a pair on one set later. I don’t like holding any of the bars without gloves, I’m such a wimp Although your hands are pulled on more, never let your shoulders slump okay. Try to pull your shoulders back throughout the whole movement.
You didn’t like the seated OHP? Do you straighten your arms after you’ve cleared your face or do you keep the bar out at an angle.
For the DB triceps, start with your left tricep first. If your tricep can only do 10 reps before it gives, then only do 10 reps for the right tricep also. Don’t use different weights though.[/quote]
I like the seated OHPs usually, just wasn’t feeling them today.
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Lol okay I found it hard that someone can’t like it.
Hope everything works out with the tricep. Maybe you should try using your left arm to do more everyday things like picking up a book or stuff like that. Most likely it’s only weak because your right hand is dominant.
Unless you’re a leftie, then I’m out of ideas
^ Lol! That’s pretty clever actually…start using the left side more. Seems so simple!
Alas, I also do the kimba/molly method. Even for things like pushups when I can’t get an entire set.
So did you end up doing Sumo or conventional? I think you’ll end of lurving the DL.
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
yep, right now lifting is helping you maintain and build muscle…+ building strength.
Fat loss is like 80-95% diet( you pick a number) haha… cardio, meh…I’ve hardly done cardio myself…it’s been all diet for me![/quote]
I have a terrible time sticking to diets. I have no idea how you do it. It’s one of those “amazing” things I don’t get how people can do. Yes, I’m eating better (hardly any soda (mostly when drinking alcohol) or sweets) but I could eat even better.
For the cardio…I could do the treadmill at the gym or some kind of metabolic workout, like the Cosgrove one AttyDeb does, which I could do at home.[/quote]
I haven’t finished the whole log so please don’t fry me
First, IH is very accurate in that fat loss is primarily diet dependent (as MiM mentioned AND has proven). BUT DON’T THINK OF IT as ‘going on a diet.’ It’s really more about choices on a meal to meal basis (which make up your diet).
i.e. pick the baked sweet potato instead of the mashed (white) potato, pick the green beans instead of creamed corn etc. I’m sure IH will be helping you with this anyway, but I’d just like to re-affirm.
Of course the rawer (is that even a word?) the food, the better. Like get your almonds from the produce section (raw, unshelled) instead of from the snack aisle where they’ve been over-roasted (killing most of their lipids and nutrient value) and over-salted.
Drinking unsweet tea over sweetened (I don’t care for these low-cal sweeteners AT ALL, at least sugar can be burned off. Cancer (or whatever they end up doing to the folx that use them, we’ll know in about 20-30 years) doesn’t just go away with a few extra minutes on the jogging trail, eh). Same goes for sodas. Either avoid them or drink them in strict moderation, but leave the ‘diet-sodas’ for the “I’d like to super-size that” crowd.
Anywho (enough of my hi-jack), start off with just a few things like that and you’ll be amazed at how much of a difference it will make!!
Deepest sympathies about your Mother. Very good to hear she’s coming along.
Best Wishes and tell IH I said “Whaddup!”
[quote]DB Triceps: Right: 8 x 10. Left: 10 x 5, 10 x 5. My left is weaker than my right. What would be the best way to bring it up? Do more sets with less weight while keeping my right at the same reps/weight?
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Have IH start training you on the CGBP!! Those are probably one of the BEST exercises to improve Tri strength.
Thanx, CD, for the advice!
Leg Day! It was a very rushed workout as we went super late (that’s a theme on Sundays).
Squats: 5 x bar, 10 x 65, 10 x 75, 7 x 85. <–two more reps than last time.
DB Lunges: 4 x 10, 12 x 12.5, 12 x 12.5.
Lying Leg Curls: 5 x 65, 5 x 80.
Leg Extensions: 5 x 40, 5 x 55.
The leg curls/extensions were cut short because it was almost closing time. And I guess (think) I did them supersetted since I did them right after each other: curls, extensions, rest; curls, extensions, rest.
Yes ma’am, those would be supersets! And don’t stress too much about the extens and curls…your money was better spent on the squats! BTW GREAT job on getting more this trip!!
Bench: 5 x bar, 4 x 65, 4 x 65, 5 x 65, 2 x 75, 2 x 75.
DB Curls: 10 x 12.5, 10 x 15, 7 x 15.
Flys: 5 x 55, 4 x 70.
DB Triceps: Left: 2 sets of 12 x 5. Right: 12 x 5. I tried both Nikki’s suggestion of starting with my left tricep (the weaker one) and Kimba/Molly/Masch’s suggestion of doing an extra set on my left so it went: Left, Right, Left. On the second set on my left I could really feel my left tricep starting to work around rep 9 or 10.
The hyper-Beans-type guy was there again but wasn’t his usual dancy, bouncy self. I wonder if he was in a bad mood. And yesterday, one of the hardcore training guys wore one of those shirts with arm holes down to his waist and I was shocked at the lack of abs. His arms/chest/shoulders are so built I thought for sure he had to have “sick abz” but he didn’t! He was kind of pudgy. Huge let down. The one lady who reminds me of Kimba was there too. She was alternating DB presses with every other exercise. It went: db presses, lat pulldowns, db presses, db curls, db presses, pull ups, db presses. It was weird.