Tuesday-June 23, 2009-Happy 92nd Grandma
Today would have been a great day regardless of how the workout would have gone. Today is my Grandma’s 92nd Birthday. As many of you know, she was hospitalized in May. She was in for approximately one week. She is now staying with my aunt and continues to get stronger. We look forward to her returning home in early July. I talked to her this morning and she sounds great! Once again, I thank all of my BodySpace friends who posted comments and sent expressions of support and concern. You all really helped me get through a rough time!
The workout today was intense. I am trying to challenge my chest and really worked on keeping form strong for my push-ups. I also experimented with my planche training in that I integrated the pseudo and Tiger push-ups into the workout instead of doing them after the completion of my tuck-planche holds. This made for a more challenging circuit-like workout. The circuit was as follows:
Tuck-planche (hold for 20 seconds)
40 pseudo push-ups
10 Tiger push-ups
1 minute rest
Repeat (I did 3 x 40 Pseudo push-ups and 3 x 10 Tiger Push-ups, 4 Tuck planche holds)
Add this to my push-up chest workout and this became a pretty good workout!
I also had a very good 2 mile run (14:34). Overall, this has been a great day! I hope everyone else is having a good day as well.
I continue to focus on the diet. It appears that some definition is starting to show UNDER my pecs, which means some of the fat is going away! 
LOL! I had to fight the urge to have a Reese’s Cup today after my run. I’m going out later and buy some watermelon or cantaloupe to satiate my sweet tooth!
Here is what I did today:
| 3 x 60 Push-ups-Weighted 3 x 60 Push-ups-Inclined Tuck Planche:4 x 20 seconds*Pseudo Push-ups:3 x 40*Tiger Push-ups: *1 minutes rest between each circuit. Cardio: |
June 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Nice going on the workout Andrew. Way to go passing up the Reeses Cups (boy do I love those things!!). I’m with ya on the diet focus. Keep charging old guy!
Glad to hear your Grandma continues to improve.
June 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Thanks Al, I’ve been meaning to stop by your page and give you major props on your progress. The two pics show that you are tightening up. As far as diet, I’m going to do a cutting diet in 1.5 weeks for one week to see how much I can burn. It is a tough diet because all carbs are gone! I won’t be able to work out at full throttle (especially cardio) so I’m designing a lighter workout for the week.
Thanks for the comment and the inspiration.
Signed
"The Old Guy" LOL!