Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A new ab exercise!

Today was another upper body day.  This time, I wanted to do an ab exercise that didn't require so much arm work, so I chose the anti-rotation hold.  That was plenty challenging! I didn't alway hold my arms straight out.  Maybe I should decrease the weight so i can.

I worked out again barefoot. It's fun and since I'm at home, it's no problem!  It feels weird at first, but then it feels natural.  I made good use of my dumbbell handles today.  I love being able to make small steps in my dumbells. 1.25# is the smallest step, which is much better than my regular dumbbells.

I'm enjoying the Female Body Breakthrough warm-up.  I used to skip warming up, but I have this down to 10-11 minutes.  I know it's good to do.  Today, during the rests, I also foam rolled my back.

I burned around 650 calories, which is good considering I ate some of the Black Forest Cake I made for hubby's birthday.  It was sooo worth it, though!


Hypertrophy I A6  (4 sets of 10 reps, 60 secs rest)
Warm-up - FBB (10:15)

Dumbbell incline bench press - 3x10 @27.5# each hand, 1x10 @28.75# each hand

Cable seated row - 3x10 @80#, 1x10 @82.5#

Dumbbell shoulder press - 1x10 @20# each hand, 3x10 @22.5# each hand

Wide-grip lat pulldown - 4x10 @85#

Barbell close-grip bench press - 4x10 @60# (did not alternate with high pulls)

High pull - 4x10@ 60#

Anti-rotation hold - 3x20# with rope held out, but not straight out (should lower weights?)  30 secs right, rest 15 secs, 30 secs left (subbed for Swiss-ball crunch)

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