DinbinFanfoom
2nd May 2005, 12:38 PM
Started the week off with ab/back day.
One Arm Rows: 3 sets of 12 (25 lb dumbell) Finding these pretty easy. I've identified my lat's as an area I really wanna work on, so I should up this to at least 30 lbs soon. Concentrating on lowering the weight slowly until then.
Raised Leg Crunches: Originally was doing 3 sets of 20 (pathetic eh?) but got "in the zone" yesterday and did 30/50/100 fairly easily. Not sure if that's an anomaly or if I'll be able to go to 50/50/50 or more soon.
Upright Rows: 3 sets of 12 (2 x 25lb dumbells) Fairly easy as well. Gonna have to up the weight. Any idea if it's better to keep back straight up/down or lean forward a bit?
Reverse Crunches: 3 sets of 20-30. Doing these for lower abs, they start out easy in the set but get hard around the 20 mark. I'd like to get myself up to 3 sets of 40 or so.
Back Extensions: Pain in the butt to do because I don't have the right equipment, so end up bracing myself with my toes curled under a weighted chair. Looks ridiculous, I'm sure, but I can blow through 3 sets of 20 pretty easy now. I put a mat below me so I don't smash my face on the floor if my toes let go. Try to put my arms behind my neck (a-la sit-up) or behind my back.
I'd like to add another exercise, I think, not sure what to do... Maybe some of those "bridges" or something for your back where you hold yourself in a forearm-on-the-floor pushup position for as long as possible?
Considered running instead of ab/back, but the weather has been pretty cruddy, except for a small period Saturday afternoon. Now that my vacation is over, and I'm back at work, of course it's nice and sunny out. :mad: Ah well. Tonight I hit the treadmill at my parent's place. Not as scenic, but easier to gauge improvement. I was at 2min walk/13min run cycles last week, really wanna get to the point where I can run the whole 30 after a warmup. Probably not this week though... two 15 minute runs is still a long way from a 30.
One Arm Rows: 3 sets of 12 (25 lb dumbell) Finding these pretty easy. I've identified my lat's as an area I really wanna work on, so I should up this to at least 30 lbs soon. Concentrating on lowering the weight slowly until then.
Raised Leg Crunches: Originally was doing 3 sets of 20 (pathetic eh?) but got "in the zone" yesterday and did 30/50/100 fairly easily. Not sure if that's an anomaly or if I'll be able to go to 50/50/50 or more soon.
Upright Rows: 3 sets of 12 (2 x 25lb dumbells) Fairly easy as well. Gonna have to up the weight. Any idea if it's better to keep back straight up/down or lean forward a bit?
Reverse Crunches: 3 sets of 20-30. Doing these for lower abs, they start out easy in the set but get hard around the 20 mark. I'd like to get myself up to 3 sets of 40 or so.
Back Extensions: Pain in the butt to do because I don't have the right equipment, so end up bracing myself with my toes curled under a weighted chair. Looks ridiculous, I'm sure, but I can blow through 3 sets of 20 pretty easy now. I put a mat below me so I don't smash my face on the floor if my toes let go. Try to put my arms behind my neck (a-la sit-up) or behind my back.
I'd like to add another exercise, I think, not sure what to do... Maybe some of those "bridges" or something for your back where you hold yourself in a forearm-on-the-floor pushup position for as long as possible?
Considered running instead of ab/back, but the weather has been pretty cruddy, except for a small period Saturday afternoon. Now that my vacation is over, and I'm back at work, of course it's nice and sunny out. :mad: Ah well. Tonight I hit the treadmill at my parent's place. Not as scenic, but easier to gauge improvement. I was at 2min walk/13min run cycles last week, really wanna get to the point where I can run the whole 30 after a warmup. Probably not this week though... two 15 minute runs is still a long way from a 30.