Another day, another workout. Somehow I made it through and I did it while surprising my trainer.
I started out as I always do with a quick warm up on the elliptical. I knew we were doing shoulders and back today so the elliptical helps warm up my shoulders. Also, my legs were still stiff from Tuesday's workout, so the warm up was tough.
After that, we moved onto the stair climber for 15 minutes of pure hell. At least I think it was 15. It may have been 10, but if I am wrong, Karissa can leave a comment telling me that I am wrong.
From there we moved onto the sets of lat pull downs coupled with these things called renegade rows. Let me tell you about those. Imagine a plank, a push up and a dumbbell row all in the same exercise. We start with a plank on the dumbbells, then shift to one side row the other side and then do a push up. Repeat for each side. I think my hands still hurt from placing the majority of my weight on a small dumbbell bar to to the plank and push up. Also, when rowing one weight, the other one is holding all of my weight. The only good thing about this exercise is that it works the entire core as it engages for balance while rowing.
After that little slice of anti-heaven, we moved onto another duo where we did dumbbell rows and negative bicep curls. Negatives mean that we slowly lower the weight before curling it back up. In fact, the lowering was done to a very slow 7 count. Karissa must have thought that I wasn't working hard enough as on one particular set she had me hold the weight half-way down for a little bit of extra pain. Also, on the rows, we increased the weight each time. We went from 25 to 35 to 40 to 45. Going into it, Karissa thought that I would max out at 35 so I surprised her. This means that she will push me extra hard next time. So, to sum up, we went from row to curl to row to curl...
Once we were done that it was time for my superset of the day. This time it was a dumbbell shoulder press, followed by a front barbell shoulder press, followed by a lateral raise, followed by a lateral raise with the added benefit of swinging the weights in front of me until they touched then back out before lowering.
During all of this we did find that my arm injury is going to be a major hurdle. The pain is like someone stabbing me with a knife in my arm while I am trying to lift the weight. I am going to have it checked out next week, so we'll see what it is then. Keep p watching and I'll update you when I know something.
We also decided that I should add a day of cardio with these workouts so that means 3 times a week into the gym starting next week.
Oh yeah, one last thing. I forgot to tell you all that Karissa is looking even better lately. She has changed her trainer and her workout regimen and it is paying off. If you are single, you may want to head into the downtown location of World Health and see if you can meet her. It is worth your time. She is going to make me pay for this, but it is worth it.
See you next week.
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