For most of this challenge I have been doing my leg lifts just lying on the ground and lifting my legs up from the ground and then up to vertical and then back down to just above the ground. Until today. Today I started going my leg lifts while hanging off of my pullup bar, and became drastically more difficult. I was only able to pump out 10 at a time, and they definitely used different muscles than the other method, or they used previously used muscles in a new way. So at the end of today I’m in a bit of pain due to the new leg lifts even though they are drastically reduced number of repetitions from the previous method.
Weight Training Day:
- leg lifts (10 x 4) – ouch..
- crunches (25 x 4)
- bench press – (15×3)
- curls – (15×3)
- military press (15×3)
Boy oh boy the holidays played havoc on my challenge. I didn’t do anything of any consequence the 21st through the 24th. Yesterday after Christmas dinner I went for a short walk but it was pretty cold and I forgot my hat, so I turned back after a mile for a total of two miles.
Hopefully I can finish up the month with consistent exercise. Here’s to hoping!
I missed my exercise on Friday. No explaining it away. It just didn’t happen. Saturday was the day I had scheduled to take off this week so I’ve had two days in a row off. I’ll be back at it again on Sunday. I now feel lousy on the days I don’t exercise so the point of the challenge, “Making exercise a habit” is being realized.
I had a talk with my cousin last night and she seems to think we should run a marathon next December. She has been running on her lunchtimes at the office with a bunch of coworkers and she’s running about 5 miles a day. So she has a bit of a headstart on me. We’ll see how the next few months of my training go before I commit to something that ambitious though.
Well I’m over halfway throug this challenge, actually I’m 3/5 of the way through, and it’s all going along quite well at this point. I’m slowly starting to add a few things to my weight training days to give it some variety now that all of the really painful soreness that I get when I begin to workout is gone. Hopefully all of this effort has a useful impact on my mountain biking next year. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Weight training day:
- curls – (15×3)
- military press – (15×3)
- bench press- (15×3)
- dumbbell rows – (15×3)