[theNuge]

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

*** Wife's Entry ***

General Notes: my wife had a great workout. I was jealous .

Deadlift from Lowest Pin
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Notes: she was soooo happy when she got her PR. I was pretty happy too. In fact, I was happy I forgot to have her do 115x3x2 to close out .
45x10
65x5x2
75x3
95x3
105x3
115x3
125x3
135x3 --> 10 lb. PR!

Walking Lunges
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Notes: these kicked her ass.
10's x 8 (each leg)
15's x 8 (each leg)
12's x 8 (each leg)

Pull-Throughs
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Notes: once again she kicked ass on these.
40x8
50x8
60x8
60x8

Plate Gripping
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5 x 60 sec
10 x 45 sec
15 x 30 sec

[theNuge]

I did forget to mention one thing about helping my wife workout. There was some asshole there that had some serious BO. I mean I could smell him from fifteen feet away...

[theNuge]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

RE Upper Body

General Notes: my stupid shoulder starting hurting after my bench workout. Of course this affected the rest of my workout. Pulling felt good but pushing caused it to hurt. Of course I'm hating my body right now.

Bench Press
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45x5x2
65x5x2
95x5
115x5
135x12
135x12
135x9 (this was to failure)

Dumbbell Floor Press
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40'sx5
40'sx5
40'sx5

Lat Pulldowns
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125x8
125x8
125x8
125x8

Standing Dumbbell Overhead Press
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25'sx10
25'sx10

Hammer Curls
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Notes: I only did one set of these because of my stupid shoulder.
25's x 8 (each arm)

Ab Circuit
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Notes: stupid shoulder...
Vertical Leg Raise --> 10 10 (Didn't do third set)
Decline Sit-Ups --> 10 7 (Didn't do third set)
Jack Knifes --> 7 2 (Didn't do third set)

[theNuge]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

*** Wife's Entry ***

RE Upper Body

General Notes: my wife had a pretty good workout. I don't know about all that bench work. It seems to really tax her muscles. We're switching our Upper Body exercise next week and that could help.

Bench Press
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25x5x2
35x5x2
45x5
55x12
55x11
55x8

Dumbbell Floor Press
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15'sx10
20'sx5
20'sx5
20'sx5

Lat Pulldowns
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50x8
50x8
50x8
50x8

Dumbbell Standing Overhead Press
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15'sx10
10'sx10
10'sx10

Dumbbell Hammer Curls
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12's x 10 (each arm)
15's x 10 (each arm)
15's x 10 (each arm)

Ab Circuit
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Decline Sit-Ups --> 10 10 10
Lying Leg Raise --> 10 10 10
Jack Knifes --> 10 5 5

[theNuge]

Good moment in the gym locker last night: I saw a guy sitting on a bench by his locker with his boxers hiked up and he was popping his leg zits...

[fennway4414]

Originally Posted by theNuge

Good moment in the gym locker last night: I saw a guy sitting on a bench by his locker with his boxers hiked up and he was popping his leg zits...

Yuck, I hate that.

[theNuge]

WOOT!

Starting Strength, Practical Programming, and my bands came today!

[theNuge]

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

General Notes: My wife and I had to switch our program days from Friday/Sunday/Tuesday to Sunday/Tuesday/Thursday. So, we had a five day break from heavy lifting. I had planned to get to the gym last night to do general conditioning and intro to squat work but my wife and I had a date so it didn't happen. We went today instead.
Overall the workout was pretty good. She seemed to have pretty good squat form. It came a lot easier to her than it ever has for me.
After doing box squats I realized those are what I should have started with when I first started lifting. I never once rounded my back.

Warmup: fivel minutes of cardio followed by high knees, walking lunges, high kicks, lunge to high knees, butt kicks, and running carioca.

Pull-Ups w/ Average Band
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Me --> 5x5
Wife --> She couldn't do one and the strong band was too easy so she did what she could.

Box Squat
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We both did a series of BW squatting just so we could both get the feel for them.

Conditioning Work
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I wanted us to both do the following at least three times:
5 Turkish Get Ups (each arm)
5 Dumbbell Snatches (each arm)
10 Dumbbell Swings

Teaching my wife the Dumbbell Snatch form almost led to a divorce for some reason. She got so frustrated and angry that I thought I was going to have to move out. However, we both regrouped and she got it down.

We both did the above circuit once. She did it with 10 lbs (she later said it was too light) and I did it with 35 lbs. Between teaching her the form and the circuit I was fried. She was sweating pretty hard too so we stopped.

[theNuge]

My wife did make a great comment after doing the above circuit. She said after doing that she no longer liked Yoga and sitting on a cardio machine was just boring. I thought that was pretty great.

Once she got the form down on the TGU's and the Dumbbell Snatches she just loved them. I was pretty jealous of her hip stance. A woman's hips seem a lot more suited to squatting than mine. Maybe some guys don't have my flexibility issues. It was just cool to watch her get in the squat position and snatch the weight up.

[Feature boy]

Hmm... I have a woman's hips, and I still suck at squatting...

*strokes beard*