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Showing posts with label full body weight lifting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label full body weight lifting. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Daily Lift: Push Up & Pull Up PRs

A couple awesome things have happened this month.  I now can do 26 real push ups in a row! *Gasp* Right!?  Isn't that awesome?  Aaaand... are you ready for it?  THREE (3) pull ups!  (Go ahead and give the person nearest you a high five for me, okay?)  I'm feeling really strong and loving it!  So, at the gym yesterday I went ahead and killed it.  
10 min elliptical warm up
Squats (Got to use my new lifting belt for the first time!  LOVE!)
Wide lat cable pull downs
Wide grip upright rows
Barbell bicep curls
Military press
Hanging leg raises
Hanging twist oblique raises

And, now the moment you've all been waiting for... Shameless gym selfie time!!!






Saturday, March 1, 2014

Flex Friday

I was sick all week and didn't do a damn thing.  Mostly I sat on the couch, which is really really hard for me, even when I'm not feeling well.  However, Friday I was finally feeling good and Jeff and I went to the gym together in the evening.  It felt really great to be back at it!  

10 minute treadmill walk
Incline bench press
Pull ups
Overhead dumbbell press
Cable straight arm pull downs
Cable bicep curls
Cable tricep pull downs
Cable rope bicep curls
Cable rope tricep pull downs
Box squats



Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A day in the life of...

People often ask me how I do it all.  Well, sometimes I don't.  Sometimes there are dirty dishes, and laundry, and general chaos.  Usually, I run around like a bat out of hell trying to get stuff done so that I can get my run in, or get to the gym.  Today, I documented my mania.

6:15am wake up and lay in bed until my alarm beeps at 6:30am
6:30 make breakfast for myself and the kids
7:00 wake girls, get them dressed, fed and ready for school
8:00 get dressed
8:10 take girls to school
8:20 come home and do some crazy fast house cleaning & start a load of laundry from the pile from hell
9:15 drop off Lila's lunch
9:20 Gym
11:00 pick up Clarissa
11:15 make & eat snack #1
11:30 shower
12:15pm eat lunch and pack snack for Clarissa
12:20 run errands- Bank, Costco, Wal Mart
2:30 unload groceries
2:40 eat snack #2
2:50 Pick up Lila from school
3:00 make Lila snack, orchestrate homework, finish putting groceries away, finally switch that load of laundry to drier 
4:30 sit on arse and fool around on the computer
5:25 make dinner, eat dinner, clean up 
7:00 take Kurtis to craft store to buy him origami paper so he can make sweet paper roses for his girlfriend for Valentine's day (what a guy!)
8:00 make snack for girls, help them get ready for bed
8:15 read stories
9:00 snack #3, more computer time 
It is now 9:53 and I have to finish up this computer nonsense so I can finish cleaning the kitchen and change the laundry over & get ready for bed!  So, there you go.  That's how I "do it all."  Not really very impressive, just busy!



Transformation Tuesday! 
9:15 head back to the girl's school because someone forgot her lunch box
9:20 gym time!
135# straight leg dead lifts




20 minutes elliptical
Straight leg dead lifts
Barbell shrugs
Dumbbell bench press
Overhead dumbbell press
Machine biceps curls
Wide grip lat pull down
Overhead rope cable triceps extensions
Donkey calf raises
Hanging leg lifts & oblique twist lifts

Monday, February 10, 2014

Suck it up, buttercup

Well, since I made all my kids suck it up and go to school with a cold, I decided I should also suck it up and head to the gym.  I didn't push it too hard as I wasn't feeling top notch, but it felt good to be working. I'm really jonesing for some long distance running.  This break from intense mileage has been a very good thing.  Today, it's in the 40ºs and all I could think of was a nice long sunny run in a pair of shorts.  I can't wait to be running long runs every weekend again!  I love those days!  In fact, the next couple of weekends I'm going to go for a bit longer as I need to prep a bit for the Buffalo Run.  Exciting stuff!

10 minutes elliptical
Bench press
Standing barbell military press
Box squat
Pull ups
Single arm dumbbell rows
Glute machine
Russian twists
Bicycle crunches
Crunches