I’m not going to bring home that exercise card after all. If I do, I will leave it at work or somewhere and then forget what I need to do the next day. Instead I am going to try and remember the names for the exercises that I have done instead.
I dabbled with the upper body exercises last week, doing them a little bit out of order and was just getting used to them. This week I decided to start from the top.
Warm up, 5 minutes on the rowing machine. Piece of cake, just a bit dull.
Lat pull down with inverted grip. This is similar to the lat pull downs that I have been doing to date but my grip is closer together and turned around so that my palms are facing me to work different muscles. 39kgs. 3 sets of 15 reps.
Cable row. This is a cool exercise that works the back muscles. With the cable pulley at the bottom of the machine, I sit facing it and pull the weighted cable toward me until I finish with my elbows at my side. 70kgs, 3 sets of 15.
I was supposed to do some erector spinae exercises on the ball, but it was pretty crowded over in that corner and I wasn’t very good at that exercise, I am going to secretly practice this one at home before I unleash my technique at the gym, so I skipped it.
Cardio. 30 minutes, 7.2 mph. I increased the incline angle by 1 every five minutes. Until the last ten minutes where I dropped the incline to 0 and I walked out the last 3 minutes.
This is killing me. I need to keep running if I am going to do this half marathon in March and I’m sure that in a few weeks time 30 minutes will be a doddle but today my calves are wrecked and I have a killer blister on my right foot. It is a big compound blister which I am sure has other smaller blisters underneath it.
After that I swam as usual. Not for very long, only about 10 – 15 minutes but it was a good low impact warm down.
I’m back to the gym again tonight, and if the weather continues to improve am thinking about going for a run and/or kayak in the real world again over the weekend.
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Are you doing the lat pull down from standing? And are you doing it from above your head to chest height or from chest height to groin height?
Also, I called you a girl. I stand by the comment.
Oh and I'm your little sister.
It is a seated lat pull down from above my head to chest height.
Well that narrows it down to three people, Miss Anonymous! ;P
Oh right - I'm the little sister in the country and going to the gym. I'd sign in but it's not letting me at the moment for some reason and I really can't be bothered to find out how...
Do you know which muscle groups that works?
Still works the lateral muscles. The different grip works a different part of the same muscle group.
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