Recovering from the weekend
Okay, so I was feeling so guilty about not lifting for two weeks while I was on vacation and gaining weight while I should be dropping, that I absolutely killed myself this weekend. On Friday I did a brutal leg workout in the afternoon after doing 60 minutes of cardio that morning. I’ll write it out, so you can feel my pain:
Giant set #1: 4 sets of 20 reps on each exercise, in a circuit fashion with no rest between exercises
Cybex Leg Press 290lbs
Reverse Hack Squats 50 lbs
Stiff-legged deadlifts 65 lbs
Sumo squat with heels elevated holding a 40 lb DB
Giant set #2: 4 sets 15-20 reps each, circuit style with no rest
Horizontal Squat Press machine. Wide stance, toes out, lifting & squeezing glutes at the bottom of the movement. 80 lbs
Single leg 45 degree Leg Press, heels high to focus on the glute-ham tie-in. 90 lbs
Seated hamstring curls. 70 lbs.
Glute press machine. 90 lbs.
Smith Sumo Squats. 90 lbs.
Then I did abs for about 15 minutes. I did another 60 minutes of cardio after putting my kids to bed that night.
Saturday morning I drug my kids to the gym with me. They love to go to childcare, so I’m lucky there. I did a heavy back/chest day, followed by 60 minutes of cardio. That afternoon I took the kids to the track at the community college and ran:
8 x 25yd sprints
4 sets of suicides (10, 20, 30, 40 yd lines, sprinting back each time)
4 sets of side shuffles in a low squat position (20yds each side, sprint back)
4 sets of stadiums (singles up, run back down, doubles up, run back down, triples up, run back down = one set)
Pushed out another 60 minutes of cardio that night after putting the kids to bed, although I was exhausted. The sweat was dripping off of me though!
Sunday morning I met my friend Brianne at the gym and we did a good shoulder, bis, and tris workout. Another grueling 60 minutes of cardio followed. I was so sore in my hamstrings that I could hardly walk, but I managed to be distracted enough with our gossiping! Wish I’d had her around that night to help motivate me to do another cardio session, but I was just too tired and sore to do it.
My soreness in my hamstrings is tolerable today, so I’ll either try to do another track workout this afternoon or go for a long run in the park. I was down about 3 pounds this morning, but still not where I need to be at 7.5 weeks from my show. I just hope I don’t blow all of my hard-earned muscle gains with all of this extra cardio I’m having to do.
