Operation 204 - Chapter 15

Thursday's edition of my workout saga.

I have been told that I actually have readers. Not sure I believe them. There may be a test later just to see if people are actually paying attention. Anyway, enough small talk, let's get to the workout.

Today the arm felt good, so we decided to test to see how good. I have to say that it held up quite well today and only pulled a bit on a couple of exercises. Nothing major, so my chiropractor is doing a good job.

We started with some warm ups consisting of extreme drop lunges (ones where I have to touch my elbow to the inside of the ankle on the same side while doing a lunge) and some shoulder warm ups with a light weight.

From there we moved onto finding some weights to do my superset for the day. I think that my lovely and attractive trainer Karissa sometimes underestimates what I can do so it took longer to find the weights I could work with. The superset consisted of dead lifts, upright rows, incline flys and finally lateral raises with the addition of bringing the weights in front of me before swinging them back to my sides then down.

So on the dead lift we warmed up with a set with 10 per side, then a set with 25 per side, then a set with 35 per side. Karissa decided that this was the point that I would stay for the superset.

We then moved onto the upright rows. We did a set at 35, then a set at 45, then a set at 55, and finally a set at 65. This was going to be me weight for the superset for upright rows.

Onto the incline bench where we started with 15 pounds for the flys. We moved to a set at 20 and a final set at 25 which was where we stopped for that portion of the superset.

Sitting up on the bench we used 7.5 pound weights for the lateral raise portion. We did one warm up set with those to make sure I could.

The flys and the lateral raises tweaked my arm a bit, but it wasn't too bad so we continued on.

So, after finding the weights for my individual elements we started the superset. Start with dead lifts, move to upright rows, then onto the incline flys and finally the lateral raises. Three sets of 8 reps for each and my day was complete. This was another day where I could surprise Karissa with my progress so I am sure that I am going to pay for it on Tuesday when I meet with Karissa again. I am not sure if she hates me or likes me, but she keeps working with me so it must be less hate :)

Anyway, not sure if I am going to do cardio tomorrow or not as I think that I need a beer after work. I'll take my stuff just in case, but it may not get used until next week.