Yoga and Legs
Saturday evening my wife thought it would be nice to watch our wedding DVD. As I was watching it I couldnt believe how much I had seemed to have aged in the last 1 1/2 years. I have been eating right, training often and drinking plenty of water. It dawned on me that it had to be stress. Working at Bodybuilding.com can become a little overwealming at times, and stress takes over. Dont get me wrong, I consider this a good stress. Its the stress of meeting deadlines, making contacts, doing deals etc but its all to give our visitors the best quality content in a short time. It feels good because its my subject of passion, a job I love, and the feedback is pricless. However, no-matter which way you look at stress, it can age you.
That night I decided to look at the timetables for Yoga the following morning to take time out for myself and begin my brain detox. My wife and I got up at 6.00am, went for coffee, rode our mountainbikes in the rainy hills, had breakfast and then arrived at our Yoga class at 930am. It felt so good to stretch, take some deep breaths, clear my mind and finish off with meditation (I fell asleep at this part).
We went home feeling tired but as soon as I made our smoothies (protein powder, blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, banana, watermelon, yogurt, walnuts, almond butter and flaxseed) we felt really energized for the entire day.
In the afternoon I met with my buddy Jim Britain to go through a leg workout.
First we met at Starbucks for a coffe kick and where I was to have a meeting with a new guy to Boise - Pitbull Pasquale http://www.davecourtney.com/articles/060302_pitbull.htm . Jason is a sought after trainer and strenght coach who will be a great addition to the Bodybuilding.com site. We spoke about various opportunities he could provide in the way of video content for uour visitors. He moved here two days ago from San Diego. He is here as a registered nurse.
We began with giant sets - Leg Press, imediatly followed by Hack Squat and then walking lunges. On the leg Press I had 16 plates, did ten reps with feet at bottom of plate then shifted them to the middle - 10 reps, then shifted them to the top - I only managed 5. Then onto the Hack Squat (6 plates) - started with 15 reps feet together and then 15 reps with legs apart. To finish the giant set, we did walking lunges (I had 45Ibs DB’s in each hand).
We then crawled over to the leg extension and lying hamstring curl. I launched into 20 reps with the entire stack and then continued to lower a couple of pins so I could squeeze out 10 reps with each weight until I totaled 50reps. The same was done on the hamstring curl - 50 reps total.
We then went over to superset seated calf press with standing calf but it was at this time Jim had to go to the restrooms to puke. I continued with my 3 super sets of 20 reps each, first set feet pointing in, second neutral, third - feet pointing out.
I had to force my isolate and vitargo shake into me as the last thing I felt like was food. Within 10 mins of having my shake I felt recovered and fine.
Arms tonight.
K
