Almost in tears after this workout....

... tears of joy!
After a week off, it felt sooooo good to be back at the gym.  I missed the feeling of accomplishment after a hard lifting day.  On my way home, I was feeling so grateful for the gym and how it has everything I need and it's all close at hand... oh, and how it's not crowded at the times when I'm there.  (I was alone, today!)  I was feeling so good on the drive home, my eyes got a little moist thinking about how much better I felt.

It was a really hard workout today: Break-in B3.  Before I started, I weighed the two olympic bars.    They added a second one a couple months ago.  I though the new one might be a bit lighter, so I brought over the scale and weighed them.  The new one isn't chromed and looked a bit like aluminum, but obviously it wasn't.  To my surprise, the new bar was 5 pounds heavier!!  The original chromed one is 44#, the standard weight.  The new one was 49#.  So, I'm going to add 45# for the original and 50# for the new.  I don't want to deal with the one pound.

Total: 46 minutes
Warm-up: 4 sun salutations at home, deadlifts - 8x50#, 8x100#

Deadlift: 2x15@140# (2 minute rests, mini-sets of 5 with short breaks)

Step-up: 2x15@20#each hand


DB one arm shoulder press: 2x(5@25#, 10@20#) (last couple were really hard)

Close-grip lat pull-down: 2x15@87# (mini-sets of 5 with short breaks)

Incline reverse crunch: 2x15@30deg