| kitty -> RE: Kitty's taking the plunge (Feb. 20 2007 11:39:45) |
My second day of feeling positive so I hope I can milk it while it lasts[:D]. Trouble is most of it's going to be used on getting my assignment done.[&o]
Had a good session at the gym this morning. I decided to take a different approach to legs today. I also decided to do hams and quads together to save me some valuable time for the afore mentioned assignment.
After reading a few comments from the other females about squats and thicken waists I thought I might try the approach of not squatting every week at least. I don't squat very heavy so I don't think I'll be losing out. I can however, when I get my head round it go reasonably heavy on the leg press. We have the hammer strength leg press which works each leg individually. I decided to do 4 sets on this with my feet positioned higher on the plate than I normally do, in fact any higher and I'd have come off the platform. What a fabulous feeling, I still felt the push in my quads but also felt a much better hit on the hams and glutes. These are the areas I feel I need to work on more than my quads so perhaps a good move.
I was then about to go and do my lunges when someone decided to deadlift. How dare they! I could hear the smith machine shouting, "try me try me". Being an anti smith machine person I decided to give it a go at least rather than waiting for the bar. Wow, is all I can say, why have I not done these before, they targeted the glutes much better than my usual lunges and I managed just under 20kg per side which I didn't think was too bad for first attempt. I just ahve to remember to tie my laces tighter as my rear foot kept coming out of my trainer[:D]
SLDL finished me off good and proper and walking up the stairs out of the gym after was quite an ordeal. For the first time in ages, my legs were shaking. It felt great[:D]
Got home, took dog out and then did my CV.
I started to take the H&B Xtralean again yesterday just for a little boost of energy. I feel I've not been getting into the morning training properly so far and whether it's a placebo effect, or the stuff is really working or it's my new found positive attitude I'm not sure, but somethings working for me right now. I'm only taking one first thing as I need to work myself up to having the extra caffeine and I don't want to be losing sleep as I normally do when I start on these. It didn't stop me last night so I'll do this for four days and then up the dose to two caps. |
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