Every now and then...

... I can get in a workout!  Like this morning.

First off, some news from last night.  I decided to sign up for the Des Moines Half Marathon in October!  I enjoyed the 20k so much and this is, for all intents and purposes, the same effort.  I will have to train again (and actually start running again).  But that should be fun.  I want to do a couple 5ks before then, too.

Now, on to this morning's workout.  I got to my basement (yeah!) for Hypertrophy 1A3.  It is the upperbody half of the workout.  Today, I was musing about the differences between single-sided exercises and barbell exercises.  Both have their benefits.  Single-sided is really tough.  You learn balance and you learn the truth about imbalances, since one side often is weaker.  However, with barbell exercises, you also learn truths about sides.  If you are benching and one side is weaker, the bar doesn't go up straight.  It looks bad and you might bang the safeties if you have them set up.  Not that I would know that!  Ahem...

Out of time, so here is the workout for today.  It was much easier to hold 60 second rests.  I even got in a bit of foam rolling during that time.  I like the 10 reps a lot better than 15, too.  With warmup and a little foam rolling at the end it took 1:13.

Hypertrophy 1A3
Warm up - Female Body Breakthrough warm up (11:41)

Dumbbell incline bench press - 3x10 @25# each hand, 1x10 @27.5# each hand

Cable seated row - 3x10 @75#, 1x10 @77.5#

Dumbbell shoulder press - 4x10 @20# each hand

Wide-grip lat pulldown - 4x10 @85# (last two sets had a pause in the middle... I was getting dizzy, even though I was on my knees!)

Barbell close-grip bench press - 3x10 @55#, 1x10 @60#

High pull - 3x10 @55#, 1x10 @60# (still don't like alternating these with the bb bench press, since it is so awkward to get the bar out of the cage so often)

Swiss-ball rollout - 3x15 (subbed for Swiss-ball crunch)