I am definitely sore. I'm not sure if it is from workouts or if I'm coming down with whatever my daughter is fighting off. Whichever it is, I probably made it worse today!
I started off the morning with a yoga video called Linking the Breath to Movement. It wasn't what I had expected, but was still great. I even was sweating in my cool basement. I thought it was mostly going to be movements, but there was plenty of holding postures. I had to bail on some, even, because some were challenging.
After breakfast, I went out and shoveled snow for about an hour and a half. There is no full body workout like shoveling snow. Nice. We might be getting some more later in the week, but not as much and the winds shouldn't be as bad.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
More snow!
It snowed yet again last night. I was already planning to work out in the basement, so it wasn't a big deal. I did need to leave some strength for snow shoveling later, though.
This week my plan is to work on some of my weak areas. Today was squats and chin ups.
Yesterday, I had my son help me make videos of my squats. I didn't see much wrong with my form. I did see how my legs wobbled some, but I knew that was happening. I did see my lower back flatten some at the very last bit as I went ATG on the squat. If I would stop at full squat depth, I probably wouldn't see that.
I focused on keeping my lower back rounded today. I also payed close attention to where I rested the bar. I worked on getting it down low on my back, resting on my rear delts. I think that actually helped a lot. I was holding a little too high before. Since I don't have a rack, I have to clean the bar and get it over my head every set. I almost couldn't do it for the 65# after having gone through all the other work! Maybe I should change the loading order.
Warm up - 4x sun salutations, 10xbody weight squats
Alternating set of negative chin-ups and back squats:
Negative chins - 7x3@10sec pace
Squats - 10@30#, 8@40#, 6@45#, 5@50#, 5@55#, 5@60#, 5x65#
Short Alternating set of elbows-in push-ups on my Iron Gym Extreme and single leg curls on the Swiss ball
Push-ups - 2x5
Single leg curl on Swiss ball - 2x10each leg
Foam rolling
This week my plan is to work on some of my weak areas. Today was squats and chin ups.
Yesterday, I had my son help me make videos of my squats. I didn't see much wrong with my form. I did see how my legs wobbled some, but I knew that was happening. I did see my lower back flatten some at the very last bit as I went ATG on the squat. If I would stop at full squat depth, I probably wouldn't see that.
I focused on keeping my lower back rounded today. I also payed close attention to where I rested the bar. I worked on getting it down low on my back, resting on my rear delts. I think that actually helped a lot. I was holding a little too high before. Since I don't have a rack, I have to clean the bar and get it over my head every set. I almost couldn't do it for the 65# after having gone through all the other work! Maybe I should change the loading order.
Warm up - 4x sun salutations, 10xbody weight squats
Alternating set of negative chin-ups and back squats:
Negative chins - 7x3@10sec pace
Squats - 10@30#, 8@40#, 6@45#, 5@50#, 5@55#, 5@60#, 5x65#
Short Alternating set of elbows-in push-ups on my Iron Gym Extreme and single leg curls on the Swiss ball
Push-ups - 2x5
Single leg curl on Swiss ball - 2x10each leg
Foam rolling
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