chrisw77's Journal, 28 Aug 18

Booya! 

Hey wanted to say thank you! Today I did the reverse pyramid as you suggested. Amazingly I was able to do some arm stuff at 40# starting (normally 20,25,30 or 25,30,35 and rarely 40). Legs I could do some at 50 and others at 70! (Normally 30,40,50 or good days when I’m going for max 30,50,70-70 just for 3-4 reps) Leg press was the only thing I couldn’t do as high at the beginning as I expected. Some I exceeded like the 70# for hips! Tomorrow I’ll be giving you the stink eye I’m sure because I’m already feeling sore lol but today felt great to be able to do more than I’m used to. Chest press was 30#, couldn’t budge it on 50. Afraid of injury there as I’ve had chest issues in the past and a ripped pectoral muscle on the left, my weaker side. Normally that’s a straight 15-25# depending on the day. I don’t think I can do those numbers every time if I keep to the home workouts too but I think I can once a week. So again thanks! 

Reps didn’t increase for the most part :/. Started with 8 with heaviest then 10 for middle and last was usually 6-8. Hips were 10-12, curls/extensions were 5-6. Think I over did the arms yesterday moving furniture. But I felt more work out after, in a good way and felt that overall the workout was better than usual. I even finished up before three others and still got two more machines in. The other two ladies had 2 machines each to do but I took a break since I hadn’t given myself more than 20-30 seconds between sets. They prefer a full minute but my heart rate goes down then and someone is always eyeing the machine I’m on lol.  

10 machines, 3 sets of 6-12 reps each, 20-30 minutes total. But the machines tend to work one muscle rather than a group. Need to do the body pump I guess. 200 squats, 200 arm moves and 200 something I can’t remember... I don’t see how everyone spends so much time at the gym with short breaks between sets. Perhaps I go to fast on the machines? It’s 2-3 seconds per rep for me. Tomorrow, if I’m not too sore, I plan to do some compound work at home :). If not I can do it Thursday. Friday’s workout has been canceled and instead we are all going out to lunch. So I’ll go from burning calories on my workout day to eating calories haha.  

Ok thanks :). I took a screenshot so I can refer back to it :).