Update please missy :-p
[quote]minimaltechno wrote:
Update please missy :-p[/quote]
haha, hi MiniTech.
Well I took the week off and went back at it. I am still doing at least one back workout a week, sometimes 2. I am up to 110# on the lat pulldown and 105# on the chest supported vertical rows. 50# on the prone lever rows, doing dumbbell Pendlay rows too- they are oddly easier than the prone rows. I have read some stuff about “muscle tonus”- and am happy to read that it results more from pure strength than endurance loading. This is what I want in my back so it is looking like for both bones and posture, strength is the way to go.
I am still doing some barbell complexes. I really like them because as you said, I get all set up with it and don’t need to move around switching machines etc. They really give me DOMS in the legs and butt too. I like squats with the Oly bar now too because I can see my legs in the mirror- I was really shocked I was not squatting down symmetrically! So I am now thinking that keeping an eye on symmetry when squatting will be really good for balancing my body.
I have also begun to work on my triceps. I was considering them to be just cosmetic at this point so was focusing more on strength but I think the triceps are more important than I ever knew. Plus they are an embarrassment for me lol, time to fix them.
I am still doing the leg & hip machines. I have started using the leg press but I’m not sure what to think of it yet.
Still loving step class.
I am not getting as many leg/hip workouts as I would like but I am really proud of the way I have stuck with my back routines. I feel I am in a bit of a groove with it all.
So now that I am more or less settled in with weight lifting, I really want to lose weight. I want to go back to at least 138, preferably back to 132. I just don’t feel good about myself at this weight and none of my clothes fit.
But the more I read, it seems like bones and muscles respond the same way so I want to lose weight in a really smart way so as not to lose any more bone or this hard earned strength.
ttyl!
So when are we (or actually you) going to start oly lifting? You can’t be a tease and just leave me hanging with that. I actually looked over some of my old videos when I was starting out, and I can see a glaringly obvious technique error.
[quote]minimaltechno wrote:
So when are we (or actually you) going to start oly lifting? You can’t be a tease and just leave me hanging with that. I actually looked over some of my old videos when I was starting out, and I can see a glaringly obvious technique error.[/quote]
haha! Gee, I don’t know what is wrong but I am not getting any email notification to subscribed threads, so sorry haven’t been here.
ya, that picture is quite a tease, I think if I had a back like that, lol, nothing could stop me.
Well I actually did some overhead presses last night.
As for “real” Oly lifting, my gym does not have the real Oly plates- just regular gym plates that then get held onto the barbell with these spring-type fasteners etc. But it is still an Oly bar and I am still lifting it!
I am going to look at your journal now- I am not at home and my laptop battery is about to die, I hope I get there in time.
Hola chica!
hey:)
well I have been really busy and stopping lifting weights altogether, hahah- geesh, it didn’t take much but it also has felt really good to get some mental distance from it- I didn’t realize how much of my head space it was taking up. Though I do need to get started up again. I guess the last time I lifted weights was July 7th- oops, almost a month, wow time flies, it will be interesting to see how much, if any, strength I have lost.
Whatcha up to now?