ready, steady, go!
Yesterday I threw in another long distance trail/hill run because I needed to improve in the stamina department and I had a great run. Still had to take some breaks though. There’s one point where the trail is about 90% uphill (it levels off a couple times but then goes up again) for about 1-1.5 miles. that is killer! And at the end of that uphill stretch it does level off, it peaks off. so by the time I got to the top my legs were locking up and I was breathing like crazy. I was forced to stop or else I would stumble as I ran down the descending face because it was too steep and required a little bit of focus to stay in line or else biff it and eat rocks. But I took less breaks and finished quicker than I did just 2 days before. So good!
Now I’m getting ready to head to the soulja factory for some iron pumping muscle blasting. It’s going to be a great day, I can feel it. I hit dumbbells on bench press for the last 2 weeks but I think I’m going to do it again today for a 3rd week. I feel back on them and I want to get back up and get strong with them before I do anything with the barbell again. I’ll do them this week and then try barbell next week. I’ll probaby only do the barbell once though, I don’t really care for being able to bench a lot. I don’t like barbell too much, I don’t feel my muscles working when I do it and I don’t feel like I get much stronger when I use it. I’m the kind of guy that wants to be able to do a lot of pushups (and one-armed pushups) and I feel like working with dumbbells can benefit me a lot more with that.
So today’s breakdown is 4 sets of 10 reps 4-exercise circut:
front squats
leg raises
dumbbell bench
bent over barbell row.
August 13, 2008 at 10:18 am
Workout went pretty well. I did the dumbbell press on a different bench today (I actually did it on the barbell bench and just took the bar off) because some dude was hogging the bench I usually use. But I should have thanked him because I learned that because the other bench is a little lower to the ground it’s more difficult to cheat with legs and thus forced me into a much better form. I couldn’t lift as much weight but I sure could feel the burn a LOT more. So I’ll be doing it like that from now on. And I actually did just as much weight as last week but it was much better form this time, so that is a sure sign of progress and that made me really happy. Ate a huge breakfast afterwards: 2 glasses of milk, 4 scrambled eggs /w salsa, 2 pieces of WHITE toats (for an insulin boost) and some orange juice and some coffee. Wow I’m like a human garbage disposal!