another day
Hi all, another day, another post. So I got up early and went to the gym to do cardio. I wear a chest strap to get an accurate heart rate, to make sure that I am actually doing cardio. My target heart rate is 154, and lately I have found that it has become more and more difficult to reach. I guess my cardiovascular health has improved that much? I was huffing and puffing for the first 10 minutes just to get there, once there I was fine. So then I went back to the gym after a few hours, a meal, and NO explode. I had a grueling leg day:
Box Squats-2×15 warmup
Box squats-4×15 to burnout
lunges-4×10 each side to burnout
Romanian Deadlifts 4×8 max out-105×8
Ball Glute Crunch(just made that name up)-4×15 with 25lbs weight. 30 sec hold on last rep.
Calf Raises- 2×20-20lbs, 3×20 24lbs
Ouch, it was tough, but now I feel great! All leg muscles work to exhaustion, I’m happy.
April 25, 2007 at 11:42 am
Wow that’s tough. The lunges get me. I found out at an aerobices class that I haven’t been excercising those muscles at all. Now I do them once a week holding 15 lbs. DBs. I get terrible acid release from the lunges. That will go away when I get conditioned. (Ihope)
With that number of reps and few sets, what are you going for?
April 27, 2007 at 9:22 am
I find that difficulty getting to a HR I can usually achieve without problems is an indicator that I’m overtraining. Do you check your waking HR?