What an annoying lifting day. The lifting itself went well, but there was a guy at the gym that threw me out of what I wanted to do on almost every exercise. Argh!
He was doing circuits using the power cage for bench presses and the Smith Machine for squats. (He was also doing leg presses on the leg press machine, which is... well... interesting.) He was using way more weight than I needed, so I didn't feel like even asking to work in for the split squats. I wanted to use the SM for negative chin-ups and push-ups. At least, I could do the pulldowns how I wanted.
Negative chin-up - All at 20#: ~16sec, ~15sec, ~12sec (Used the pull-up bars on the dual cable machine... I was kind of still shaken that I couldn't do these on the Smith Machine, also I had to take a wider hold and I couldn't jump all the way up with the bar being farther up and I had to stand on a bench just to reach the pull-up bars... I think I would have done better on the Smith Machine)
Underhand lat pull-down - 1x4@105#
Barbell split squat - 2x10@30#each shoulder (had to use dumbbells, wanted to use 65# on bar bell. These were hard enough! I had to take a little break in between legs and I still got my heart rate up to 148-152bpm.)
Push-up - 1x9.5 and 1x12 (couldn't use Smith Machine, so I did them on the floor with arms out a bit and letting elbows go out rather than keeping them in... still didn't get as low as I want)
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That sucks. For the past couple of A workouts I haven't been able to do barbell squats because of a gaggle of guys crowding around and hogging the squat rack and Smith machine, so I've had to use dumbbells. But we persevere, because we're studettes, haha.
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