Thursday, January 28, 2010

More squat work

I decided to make another day of working on my squat.  I filmed them all so I could see the good, the bad, and the ugly.  I still didn't see anything crazy bad.  Except that I had my wrists at an angle rather than straight.  That would be easier to do if I were using a squat rack, I think.

I started off with the warm up from Rachel Cosgrove's book Female Body Breakthrough.  Although I admit I was taking my time, it took me 24 minutes.  I think I could easily cut that down to 20 minutes, but still, that is too long for a warm up when I'm doing a full New Rules workout.  She says it should take 10-15 minutes.  I could probably do that, but I would be wiped before my real workout really started!  I was already sweating after the 20 minute version!  Maybe I'll pick a few to start out with.  I do need better warm ups... at least more than almost nothing.

I was also working on push-ups using my Iron Gym Extreme.  I did them only with arms in, so the rep count is pretty low.

FBB warm up
Squats - 10@BW, 8@30#, 8@40#, 8@60#
Push-ups - 4x5 arms in on Iron Gym, wrists facing in

That took me 48 minutes.

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