Showing posts with label Dial It In. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dial It In. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Done dialing it in!

Today I finished off the last A and last workout overall in Female Body Breakthrough, Dial it In phase.  Before I broke the workouts up.  Today I did the whole thing in 1:30.  Two round of each, except the finisher, of course.  I mistakenly added a 90s prone cobra at the beginning.  That shows I shouldn't try to remember the workout on my own!  This was the first time doing this finisher after the whole workout.  I only added 30 seconds on to my lowest time, so I'm happy with that!

Dial It In A4
1:30
Warm up and foam rolling
Plank on a Swiss Ball - 2x90s (hard!!)
Upper-Body Core Stability Russian Twist - 2x10/20# (legs in the air)
Deadlift - (warm up 6/115#) 6/145#, 6/155# (good speeed)
Military Press - 2x 6/30#ea (oops, thought I was going lighter than this!)
Forward and Back Stepover - 8+8ea/BW (8 forward and 8 backward on each side)
Incline Dumbbell Bench Press - 2x15/30#ea
Single-Leg SHELC - 2x15ea (nice and slow = HARD!!)
One-Point Dumbbell Row - 2x15ea/35#
Finisher A: Squat thrusts + tuck jump - 3+1, 6+2, 9+3, 12+4, 9+3, 6+2, 3+1 (4:32)

Friday, August 5, 2011

Second half

... of FBB Dial it In A3.  No time to fit it all in last time. Even so, this took 35 minutes not counting foam rolling and warm-up.  Usually I do count those, so it would have been around 50 minutes.  And I only did 2 rounds, not 3.  It felt good, though.  The finisher got my heart rate up into the 170s.  I won't be able to do early morning lifts this weekend, so I wanted to get this one in today.

Dial it In A3 part 2
Foam rolling and 1/2 FBB warm-up
Forward and Back Stepover - 2x8+8ea/BW (8 forward and 8 backward on each side)
Incline Dumbbell Bench Press - 15/28.75#ea, 15/30#ea
Single-Leg SHELC - 2x15ea
One-Point Dumbbell Row - 15ea/32.5#, 15ea/35#
Squat thrusts + tuck jump - 3+1, 6+2, 9+3, 12+4, 9+3, 6+2, 3+1 (4:02)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

More cautious DLs

We were out for a few days sailing.  What fun!  Now, back to lifting.

I didn't have enough time to finish, so I just did the first two alternating groups, but did 3 sets of each.  Then, I followed up with jump roping.  During the DLs, I could feel some tightness in my right hamstring.  I assume this is all part of my messed up right side.  Hmmm... I played around a bit with how it would feel if I raised my left heel a bit.  I might try that in the future.

Dial It In A3 (part 1)
~0:58
Warm up and foam rolling
Plank on a Swiss Ball - 3x90s
Upper-Body Core Stability Russian Twist - 3x10/20# (legs in the air)
Deadlift - (warm up 68/115#) 6/135#, 6/145#, 6/150#
Military Press - 6/25#ea, 6/27.5#ea, 6/28.75#ea
Jumproping - 6x(20s off, 45s on)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dialing it in with little ones

The little ones are my kids and a neighbor kid.  They are only allowed in the basement when I am there, so they get to mess around with some of the weights. They are a bit annoying, though.  At one point, my son wanted me to get a couple bins of toys down from up high.  He tried to convince me by saying it was exercise and I could add a box to my logs that said toys!  Ha!

There was some confusion as to whether to do the Front Squat Push Press or just the Front Squat.  Since I didn't get the FSPP down very well when I did New Rules of Lifting for Women, I thought I'd give it another try.  This time, I was able to move smoothly from the front squat to the push press.  I think I'll continue with them.  At the end, I even did the finisher.  My time was pretty bad.  I hope to reduce that next time!

Dial It In B1
1:33
Foam rolling and Warmup
Prone Cobra - 2x90s
Front Squat Push Press - 6/45#, 6/55#
Chinup - 6/red 1" band, 5/red 1" band
Romanian Deadlift - 2x15/95#
Dumbbell Push Press - 2x15/25#ea
Barbell Split Squat - 2x15/45#
Split-Stance Single-Arm Cable Row - 15ea/20#, 15ea/25#
Finisher B - 5:00
20 body-weight squats
20 body-weight dynamic lunges alternating
20 lunge jumps
20 jump squats

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Deadlifting again!

Today's workout included deadlifting for the first time in a long time!  Yay!  I did feel a slight oddness like I did before in my hip.  Not a pain or even a twinge.  Just a stiffness, maybe that I know I will need to keep close track of.  The workout was very long, so I didn't even finish the 2nd set and I didn't get to the finisher.  Maybe I'll do the rest of set 2 and the finisher for my workout tomorrow.

Last night, I couldn't find my clipboard with my logs.  I had the sneaking suspicion that my daughter absconded with them, but I couldn't find them anywhere.  Not even in her room.  So, I printed out another log for this morning.  When she got up, I asked her and she showed me to them... slid under our chest of drawers!  I would have never found them there.  Never.  She thought it was funny.

Dial It In A1
Warm up and abbreviated foam rolling
Plank on a Swiss Ball - 2x90s (hard!!)
Upper-Body Core Stability Russian Twist - 2x10/20# (legs in the air)
Deadlift - (warm up 8/115#, 3/135#) 6/155#, 6/165#
Military Press - 6/20#ea, 6/25#ea
Forward and Back Stepover - 8+8ea/BW (8 forward and 8 backward on each side)
Incline Dumbbell Bench Press - 15/25#ea
Single-Leg SHELC - 15ea (did them too fast)
One-Point Dumbbell Row - 15ea/30#