Surprising planks

This morning I did another round of My Little Workout #1.  I hit a 1RM PR on the bench press.  I tried for 5# more, twice, but no-go. 

The planks!  The planks surprised me.  It's been a long time since I've attempted 2 minute planks.  I sailed through them!  Well, ok, I was sweating by the end of the 2 minutes, but I wasn't really shaking or pleading for the time to be done.  Wow!

The rows were very tough.  One weird thing is that the paint or coating on the handle started rubbing off on my hands.  Strange.  Not flaking, just discoloring my hands.  I think I mis-stated my weight on the DB pullovers last time.  The DB was still as it was for that workout and it was set at 40#.  I don't think it had been touched since then, do now I know why they were tougher than I thought they should be last time!

I started reading a book I purchased on youth strength training.  It's geared toward physical education teachers, but I was curious.  One of the first interesting things is that they consider "weightlifting" to be Olympic weighlifting and "strength training" to simply be building strength by whatever method.  I actually prefer my way of thinking (of course) because I'm strength training BY lifting weights (weightlifting) but I could do it in other ways, like with bands, machines, bodyweight, etc.  They do, of course, feel that general strength is important for younger kids, which is great.

My Little Workout #1-3
1:25
Foam rolling and mobility work
A1   Bench Press - (warm-up 3/45#, 3/75#) 1/100#, 1/105#, 0/110# (2 tries)
A2   Plank - 3x120s
B1   1-arm DB Row - 3x6/side/60#
B2   DB Pullover - 3x8/40#
C1   BB Hip Thrust - (warm-up 5/45#) 8/100#, 8/105#, 8/110# (still lovin' the Hampton!)
C2   TGU - 3x3/side/20#KB

More non-beach workout

Today was a great, hard BodyRock.tv workout again.  The Hot Body Beach Workout.  Definitely a booty-kicker.  Three different kinds of weird push-ups:  monkey push-ups, commando push-ups, and diamond runner push-ups.

For comparison:
#1:  27/28/535/25/28/5
#2:  5.75
#3:  19/5/10/6/11/5
#4:  5
#5:  33/33/5/23/30/4
#6:  5.5
#7:  15/6/12/4/12/6

Yesterday afternoon I felt so hungry, I ate everything in sight.  Too many bananas. (Why did I buy a bunch rather than one or two?  Oh, yeah, to take to the family.  Sorry family.)  Having Girl Scout cookies around during this wasn't good, either.  But the scale showed me down this morning.  Just goes to show how silly the scale can be.  At least it reminded me that one day doesn't ruin everything.  (Although, the weekend wasn't all that much better.)

1/2 more chins!

I guess I'll take what I can get!

Not much else right now...
My Little Workout #2-2
1:00
Foam rolling and mobility
A1 Chin-up - 3,2,2.5
A2 1-leg supine bridge - 3x10/side
B1 Push-up - 3x8
B2 BSS - 3x10 (bodyweight)
C1 Seated overhead press - 3x8/20#each hand
C2 Antirotation iso-hold - 3x20# for  20s each, 10s rest between, arms straight out

Tik Tok #2

This morning I got in another Tik Tok round from BodyRock.tv.  Short but very sweet!

I'm going to get good at skipping rope with this one, I think.

My combo times this time were: 3:37, 4:06, 3:43.  Last time they were 4:21, 4:05, 3:48.

Good stuff!

Good lift!

I got another good lift in today.  I'm still trying not to do anything that will aggravate my hip.  I've been without pain for a couple days.  That's nice.  I made some good progress today.  Plenty hard!  The bench press isn't going up as fast as I had hoped, but I still made progress, I think.

My Little Workout #1-2
Foam rolling and mobility work
A1   Bench Press - (warm-up 3/45#, 3/75#) 2/95#, 2x2/100#
A2   Plank - 3x90s
B1   1-arm DB Row - 3x8/side/55#
B2   DB Pullover - 3x8/35#
C1   BB Hip Thrust - (warm-up 3/45#) 8/95#, 2x8/100#
C2   TGU - 3x3/side/20#KB