Today's massive snowstorm kept all but the serious gym rats (or maybe just the people without 4x4) away from World's this afternoon. It's so nice to be able to walk around from one station to the next without having to wait for something to free up or being hit on by the Brookies along the way! I started today's workout with a 20 minute elliptical warm-up. I feel like I've been slacking on the cardio this week (not to mention eating way too many coconut-chocolate patties that I brought back from Florida!) so tomorrow is going to be a serious run day and then hopefully I can get my tired ass out of bed early enough Saturday morning to get a pass to the 9am spin class because I hear the instructor is really good. I really should do the yoga class beforehand since these horrid temperatures have knotted me up all over again but I really don't see that happening.
For weights today I did back and chest. I started with my favourite bosu ball standing barbell rows with the 45 lb. bar and did 3 sets of 12. I think part of my problem lately is not really pushing myself to fatigue so I am going to try to increase both weight and reps for a while where I can. Next, I did 3 sets of 12 free weight chest presses on the stability ball. I then mixed in one set of 4 pull-ups (real ones) just because I haven't made much progress on them lately and need to make more of an effort to do at least one set during every workout. They were very hard tonight! For my last back move I did 3 sets of 8 bent over bench free weight rows (each arm). It was extremely hard to finish my sets with the 25 lb. dumbbells so I was feeling really great about myself until I looked over and saw another girl doing 35. No clue how that was happening but she is one of the early morning weekend regulars who just happened to be there randomly tonight and who is one of maybe 5 at the most females at World's who I would actually want some workout tips from!
Moving on to abs I started with crunches on the incline bench. It was set up with 5 risers underneath (I usually do 3) but since it's such a pain in the ass to move the bench around (it weights a million pounds and doesn't have wheels) I just kept it where it was so I had to work much harder than usual. I did three sets of 16, two sets forward with a 10 lb. plate in my hands and one set side-to-side. Then, I was feeling guilty for only doing one set of pull-ups so I did two more sets on the assisted pull-up machine. Not really proud to admit using it but I suppose its better than nothing. For my last abs move I did stability ball push-ups. I wanted an extra challenge so I started my first set by rolling out toward a bosu ball and doing my push-ups with my feet on the stability ball and my hands on the bosu. This proved to be more difficult than I imagined but I made it 6 reps which I was pretty psyched about. Hopefully next time I can finish out the set and someday move on to doing them with two stability balls! I did two more sets of 8 without the bosu and then went over to the mats to stretch a bit before leaving. Wish I could fast-forward through tomorrow's 8-5er so I could get to it on my much needed run!
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