A new fan!

Lasko 3300 - $25 at Wal-Mart

Last night, I got a fan for the basement.  Boy, that makes it so much more bearable.  It's not that it's warm down there, but when I sweat, it just doesn't leave my skin.  The breeze makes all the difference.  It didn't lift the weights for me, though.  I did that.  I can tell.  I'm wiped, or at least my lower body is!  Squats and deadlifts in the same workout is a killer! I can tell my back did a lot of bracing.  After using a good weight (for me) on squats and deads, there wasn't all that much left for BSS or step-ups.  I did planks instead of reverse crunches, making sure to squeeze my glutes.

I've been able to do a chin-up three times now.  Last night I tried and got about an inch from a full one.  This is so exciting!  I've been working on it for over a year now, so I'm so glad to be where I am.  I'm looking forward to getting to the point where I can do a pull-up or multiple chin-ups.  Woo hoo!

I'm getting really close to my goal of the warm-up being 10 minutes.  I can handle 11:30, like today.  The 20 minutes that I started out with was excessive.  If I could memorize the order of the moves, I might make it.  All together, today's workout took 1:12.

Hypertrophy I  B3
Warm up - from Female Body Breakthrough (11:30)

Squat - 4x10 @75# (feeling really good)

Deadlift shrug - 4x10 @145# (pauses during last two sets)

Bulgarian split squat - 4x10 @10# each hand

Step-up - 4x10 @BW (concentrated on form and not using non-working leg to help)

Plank with squeezed buttocks - 3x90s (glad the floor was there to catch me after that last one!)