chrisw77's Journal, 29 Jun 19

Is it considered a drop set when your ‘break’ is walking to the next machine/weights and maybe having 1-2 swallows of water? 

Nice one! How does the 1RM figure into the workout? 

Right on, thanks! 

Great work Chris!  

Ah yes that’s it Chris! I do supersets. Occasionally when I go by myself I do drop sets and supersets then. Is that a thing? (3 sets of 5-10 reps on one machine -starting heavy and lightening or starting light then adding weight-then immediately moving down the line) I have even less time when I take the kids because the nursery closes by 8 and we usually don’t get there until 7:15-7:30. Wish I could keep the terminology straight lol.  

Well, let me tell you that it (Hurt) Hurts so bad (hurts so bad) It makes me feel so sad (hurts so bad) It's gonna hurt so bad If you walk away 

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Ok I’m a bit in love with your organization skills with this stuff! (And your pic here). Just the organization mind you as I’m happily married but I’m totally in awe right now. I thought I had skills but you are a master lol. (With all the colors representing certain things). My mind is so forgetful lately that I have to have a color code to the side of my pages hehe.  

We pair the pec deck machine (forward and reverse facing) with the chest press, leg curls with extensions, both hip machines with the torso machine, bicep curls with bench press because they are next to each other and then triceps are paired with lats, rows and just started adding in pull ups as those 4 are all on the same big 4 sided machine. The other day hubby helped me with the squat machine (man that hurts the spine where the padded bar rests) and the actual bench press. I heard you in my head telling me my bench press with bar only was much better and more stable haha. Did 140# in squats. My kiddo seems to do more weight than most girls in her athletics and PE classes at 95# so I was super happy when I could do 140 at the end of the workout. (We do alternate leg and arm machines a lot because we do full body 3x a week and I keep at it until I’m so shaky I can barely walk haha). If we can add time to the workouts I want to keep the bench and squats as part of the routine. I’d like to add 5# to the bars by the end of July and 10# by the time school starts. #goals Thanks for being such an inspiration!  

I’ll look into it thanks! The pull-ups machine has weights so I take off 46# of my 122# so I’m only lifting myself 4x each of 2 sets then the last I use the 52# take off and do 7-10(all I can squeak out at the end). My bands at home are supposed to take off 150# lol. It’s easier at home and I prefer the grip (fingers curled to face me where as the gym is too wide so I have to use the grips where my fingers curl in and face each other). On squats I could get 10 on 120# fairly easily so hubby wanted to see my max. 140# I could do 4 I think and the last two I was worried I wouldn’t be able to put the bar back up haha. I’ve since realized getting to D’s muscle size is out for me but I can build strength and perhaps gain half his % of muscle lol. I’ll slowly work up and see if I can get 150# squats soon and 60# total bench. I do 65# on the bench machine. 60# is just right and 70# kills my shoulder.