August 11 - Cardio and A4
I did 30 minutes of cardio. I was going to do 45 since I’ve been bad about it lately but the program that I chose wouldn’t let me do more than 30 minutes, which I thought was odd, but oh well. It was an extended interval program that I did with level 4 resistance on the down parts and level 8 resistance on the up parts. Man. I was tired. I went 2.82 miles and burned 330 calories. It seemed like I worked a lot harder but burned the same amount of calories than when I did the lower resistance. I’m sure that thing isn’t too accurate though. I felt like I worked harder and got a better sweat going so I’m sure that there was a difference. Then I did my A4 workout:
Machine Flys - 50×5
Preacher Curls - 30×3*
Triceps Pressdown - 30×3/50×2
Shoulder Flys - 30×3/40×2
I was supersetting my preacher curls and my triceps pressdowns and while I was doing the preacher curls I felt like there was a nerve in my elbow being pinched. I kept getting a tingly sensation. It felt a little funny while I was doing my chest flys because my arms are kinda short so I feel like they have to be a little bent while I do those so I don’t know if that had something to do with it or not. Also, it could have had something to do with the nerve plexus in the shoulder. Sometimes when you are working out antagonist muscles the plexus goes crazy and you get that tingly sensation. Who knows. That’s also the elbow that I broke when I was a kid so it looks funny anyway. I’m sure it could be a few different things so I can just keep an eye on it. Oh, and I ended up working in a few sets of crunches between the supersets of the chest flys and the shoulder flys because there was a guy that was using the chest machine who was a super-sized dick! I had done my shoulders, then my chest, then my shoulders, then my chest, then my shoulders. When I went back to do my chest there was a guy using the machine. He did like 30 reps without stopping (wtf?) so I went over and did some crunches. I had done a whole bunch so I figured he would be done by then, so I went over and he was standing next to the machine. So I said "Do you mind if I cycle in with you on this one?" and he said "I’ll be done in a minute". So I said "There’s no reason that I can’t use it while you’re just standing here. I have a workout that I’m doing, too, and I shouldn’t have to wait to use a machine when nobody is using it." And he said "I am using it, I’m just recovering from my last set. I’ll be done in a minute, go find something else to do." So I gave him a nasty look and I said "You are a really big dick, you know that?" and I just walked away. I ended up supersetting the rest of my shoulders with my abs and then did the chest after that. I saw the guy a little bit later and he was looking at me like he wanted to rip my heart out and eat it. I just stared right back and I think it pissed him off even more. Hah! Take that jerk-o! :]
Sorry, I get excited sometimes…haha. Time for bed. Going to wake up early and get some cardio in before work. Woohoo!
