Short but a little sweet

Not my best workout ever, but I did it!  I did one of Rachel Cosgrove's metabolic workouts, one time through.  I meant to do the one from Female Body Breakthrough, but I'm not sure where I put the book.  I'll have to search.

It had been a while since I had done this one before.  I did respectably, but I forgot how to do some of the exercises and kind of bumbled through them.

I am still pretty sore from Saturday's workout.  My lower arms are sore from gripping in DLs and chins and my upper body is sore from the eccentric chins and maybe the push-ups.  Yikes.  I can't even do a partial chin-up right now because of the soreness.  I think eight 20-second eccentric chins might be a bit too much for me!

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.