Had a great final resistance workout for the week. Today, I did legs and abs. Really pushed with with the legs today, but felt good in the end. Had to change out one exercise that I still don't feel comfortable with.....stiff leg dead lifts. I still feel this exercise works my lower back far more than it does my hamstrings, I'm sure it is my technique (or lack of it), either way I'm not doing them for hamstrings (might do them on back day as a lesser substitute for regular dead lifts). Instead, I did smith machine lunges.
9 Feb 07: Day 26
Today, while doing my squat warm up, I realized that squats are a real pain in the @$$!
While doing my first real set, after my warm up, I thought to myself....this is really heavy...(not really but it felt heavy to me!)...and I'm not sure I'll be able to do more that 3 or 4 reps with this weight, instead of giving into the strain, I took it one rep at a time and got through it with 7 reps! After fully recovering, I prepared for my 2nd set mentally. I knew I would have to put forth that same effort or more, for the second set, and decided right then and there that it would be more! So, I unracked the weight and proceeded to count as I pushed against gravity
1.2.3.4..5..6...7...8....9.....10......11...then racked it...JOB DONE!!
I really had to struggle with every rep after 6 but I kept putting forth extra effort until I was done. This kind of effort and commitment that will sure make a difference in the long run...... as time will tell.
Hope everyone that is keeping fit with me, is putting forth the effort needed to get it done!
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