Another Thursday workout is now behind me. It was an interesting workout.
I was in a bad mood for today's workout as I had to spend the day in interviews and packing my office. We are having our offices reconstructed for the next week so we all had to pack up and move to temporary space. I hate moving. So, with that in mind, I went to my workout.
We wanted to do a body check to see the progress that I have been making. This didn't go well either. We tried Tuesday, but the machine was broken. This time it was working so we did the impedance test, did all of my measurements, and put everything into the computer. The computer spit out the results that I haven't changed at all. Not one bit. I know that I am stronger and I have more definition in my legs and arms, but there was no change anywhere. Weight was the same, measurements were the same, and impedance was the same. We aren't sure what this means so we will test again in 6 weeks to see if there are any changes happening. I will also be stepping up my cardio work to see if that will make a difference.
So, after that, we got to my workout. We were in a shortened period today because of the testing so we didn't do too many exercises. We started with the superset of squats, a strange dumbbell bench press and barbell tricep extensions. For the squats we were up to 70 pounds per side. With the bar and the weights, I am up to 185 pounds. We will push this as I could have done more on my third set. For the bench press, we used 35 pound weights. This one was strange as I pressed both weights then the right one then the left one. This counted as 1 rep. For the tricep extensions, I used a 60 pound barbell. Really pushing myself today. In fact, in the final set of the bench press, I did fail at 6 (couldn't get to the 8 reps that we are doing).
The second and last superset consisted of leg press, lat pull downs, and upright rows. For this one, the rows were at 90 pounds per side, the lat pull downs were at 120 pounds and for the leg press we really pushed it. We started at 8 plates (360 pounds) in the first set, then moved to 10 plates (450 pounds for the second set) and lastly up to 12 plates (540 pounds) for the last set. This was a struggle, but I was able to complete the 8 reps for each set. This means that we will be upping the weight again next time.
So, after setting personal bests again, I feel quite good. It still doesn't explain why my body isn't showing any changes, but who knows on that one. And finally, my lovely, beautiful, and talented trainer, Karissa, put me in a much better mood by the time we were done and she even offered to help me move once she got off work. However, I was done shortly after she was done at work so she wasn't able to aid me in that. But the offer was nice.
See you all next week.
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