Friday, March 19, 2010

My own workout creation

I wanted to lift today, but I didn't want to do Fat Loss III workout B1 quite yet, since I don't want to be sore this weekend.  So, I put together my own short workout.

I had been wanting to work on squats.  I thought about what someone said about single leg squats.  I hate single leg squats because I can't get any depth on them.  But, I thought for sure there is some way to get depth with time.  Enter YouTube.  Of course, I quickly found a good solution on YouTube.  I learned I could do single leg box squats.  That is where I squat down until my bottom touches a box.  In my case, it was a step with eight risers.  You could start by sitting down every time, but after a couple reps doing that, I found I could just barely touch it and head back up.  The height had me almost to parallel, but not quite.  Although, I bet a lot of people would erroneously think it was parallel.

My workout
I used one minute rests.  Definitely wasn't up to New Rules level, but that was the point!  It took me about 37 minutes including foam rolling at the end.

Jump rope - 3 min

Single leg box squats - body weight to step with eight risers 2x10 each leg

Push-ups - 2x10 used 8# dumbbells for my hands

Planks - 1 min forearms on step with 8 risers and shins on physio ball, 1 min forearms on floor and shins on physio ball

Single-leg Romanian deadlifts - 2x10ea leg@70# using barbell

Dumbbell bench press - 2x10@25#ea hand

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