Euro4Ever’s BodyBlog

I’ll apologize in advance - wrote this for a group I’m on this morning, there’s a bit of redundancy with my last post:

Man I hope I’m not boring everyone, the list is so quiet!

At the time I posted my Day 1, I still had to do abs after work (Ugh!). So here’s how that went… I’m still shocked.

Monday

Crunches (reps):
1st Week: 12/10/8/6
2nd Week: 12/10/8/6
3rd Week: 30/15/20/10

Leg Lifts (reps):
1st Week: 12/10/8/6
2nd Week: 12/10/8/6
3rd Week: 20/20/20/10

Side Bends (Weight in each hand, 12/10/8/6 reps):
1st Week: 25/25/25/25
2nd Week: 25/25/25/25
3rd Week: 25/25/25/25

Tuesday

Lat Pulldown:
1st Week: 50/60/70/80
2nd Week: 60/70/80/90
3rd Week: 70/80/90/100

Deadlifts:
1st Week: 40/50/55/60
2nd Week: 45/55/65/75
3rd Week: 60/75/100/120

Row:
1st Week: 50/60/70/85
2nd Week: 60/70/85/100
3rd Week: 70/85/100/130

Weighted Calf Raises:
1st Week: N/A  (Didn’t start till week 2)
2nd Week: 100/110/120/140
3rd Week: 130/140/150/160

What’s fun about the weighted calf raises is this: I can totally look at it like "doing full-range calf raises with a person on my shoulders". Muahaha!

Overall, I’m pretty happy with progress. Specifically:

Crunches: These 3 weeks, I have ABSOLUTELY done more crunches than I have in the rest of my life, put together.  The first 2 weeks, it was really a struggle to even do the reps we’re doing for everything else. I have NO idea what happened in the 3rd week, but WOW! Really exciting!

Lat Pulldown: The most I’ve ever done any kind of reps with before this has been 80. Getting up to 100 in a 4th set feels good.

Deadlift: OOOH YAAAA!!! I forgot to do them yesterday, so did it first thing this morning. HELL YA, doubled my fatigue point on the last set in 2 weeks!! Unfortunately, I’m now 20 lbs away from hitting the max weights we actually own, so more $$$. Also, I need to buy lifting straps ASAP - my hands/wrists were NOT handling 120 well at all.

Tonight is LEG DAY! I love leg day! I look forward to it all week, and have a new goal. Starting this week, every weekend I’m going to do a mini leg day - just gonna pile an insane amount of weight on, and see what my max is for like 2 reps… the eventual goal being to be able to leg press 1000 lbs before the new year. Hey, if an actor (Hugh Jackman) can do it, a badass former figure/speedskater should be able to, right?

Adding this mini leg day halfway through the week gives me plenty of time to recover from my actual leg day - I don’t want to do it on the same day, because I don’t want it to affect the program I’m doing negatively, and doing it *after* I do all my leg day sets wouldn’t be an accurate representation of what I can actually lift. The whole "reaching failure 4 times thing" and all.

Counting the truck, I’m actually leg pressing 530ish lbs for 6 reps on my 4th set now, so I don’t think it’s too outta line to aim for 750 for a couple reps. If it’s too much, I’ll dial it down a bit.. if I can handle 2, I’ll add some. Cross your fingers!

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