Hello FitFam! happy wonderful Tuesday!
Today… Was another day at the good old gym. I woke up hoping that my warm-up would be better than yesterdays, and hoping that something good comes out of workout for my sake. I realized, that being at the gym wasn’t a race, so I wasn’t going to rush anything, instead take my time and do all I can and do my best, even if I fail, I tried and I would try again tomorrow if I needed to. I came with a positive attitude..
Warm up:
- Treadmill: 12 minutes, 5% incline, 3.4-3.6mph first 4 minutes. Alternate between 5.5mph jog and 6.5mph sprint every minute.
Again, the cardio sucked, I was on a roll during the first 4 minutes and did very well with the 5.5, but then when starting the 6.5, I stuck with it, but something seemed wrong, something didn’t feel right about my body, about the way I was feeling and I didn’t want to continue and end up hurting myself. I decided instead, that I would alternate 4.0 and 6.5 speed every minute instead. It worked out fine after that. Although the sweat pouring down my face, let me know things were just getting started. I think another reason my running has been off is I haven’t sprinted in a while, I might be starting that time of month soon and because I haven’t done interval training in a while either. I managed though and continued on.
Workout Session:
- Smith Machine squat with toes elevated: 4 X 12, 105lb
- Curtsy lunge: 4 X 12
- Cable Kickback: 4 X 12 per leg, 10lb
- Seated calf raise: 4 X 12, 50lb
- Superman: 4 X 12
- Side-lying leg raise: 4 X 12 per leg
I will admit the superman’s killed me, having to do 4 sets of 12 reps almost made me vomit.. almost. It seems like it would be an easy task, but you feel it and sometimes you just want a break but you realize you aren’t done with the set yet so you have to keep going. Me, I take my damn breaks! lol. you can judge me. The lunges after the squats were a good idea because double the leg day burn! got to love it. I did a video of ONE of these exercises for TopicTuesday today, so be on the lookout 🙂
My squat for 12 reps, was well, HARD for 105lb, and I had to take a 10 second break between like 5 reps because i am not yet ready to do 12 continuous reps of 105lb. I used to do 200-250 with 10 reps but haven’t since graduating college .. my nutrition changed, my training changed, shit happened and now I am trying to get back to it. Anyways, today wasn’t a bad day, just a less of a bad day than yesterday. I thought I would inform all of you on some things: Goals of mine.
- I need to still take my exam – hoping next month
- I want to get back into CrossFit again and compete this time since when I last did it, college was on my plate and I couldn’t manage, along with work – I am hoping this time, I can put my ALL into it and take it more seriously
- I want to train to compete in my first Spartan Race/Tough Mudder, have been wanting to do this for a while.
- I want to hit 1000 followers on my blog by the end of this year! haha. – hopeful but won’t be upset about it.
These four things are some of the goals I have for myself, so hopefully I knock them out of the ballpark. I have some other goals, but I don’t think I need to give all my se
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looks like it was a good workout. I’m not a big fan of Smith machine squats but I may give this one a try.
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Well, I workout at Planet Fitness, and our gym only has smith machines, so I have to make use with it. Although, when I was doing free weights in college is when I was squatting 200-250, since then.. blah. So we shall see, I am hoping the smith machine will get me where I need to be again. Also, why are you not a fan of smith machine squats?
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I don’t like the restriction. If you get your legs under you there is some restriction. The Smith Machine locks into a very unnatural movement pattern which has the potential to stress inappropriate structures and not train the body in various planes. It actually stresses my knees since I have to lean into the weight to get in a squat stance. For me Free Barbell Squats give me a better range of motion. I’m not against using the Smith machine. It’s good for some. It just restricts me too much.
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I can understand where you are coming from, was just curious, is all. 🙂 I haven’t had many issues with the smith machine, outside of my deadlifts (which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone on a smith machine) but I use what I have and manage it the way I can. – eh. Anywho, I am thankful you decided to stop by and share your thoughts on the machine and movements 🙂 love it
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no doubt.. Keep on doing what you’re doing. You’re killing it. Make use of what you have. Like I said, it was a great workout. I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes.
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Hahaha! well if it doesnt workout for you, no coming back to sue me! LOL I am not held responsible. Please do let me know what you think of the workout, i would be very appreciative of it, I enjoy other people sharing their workouts as well, so if you have any and ever want to share, leave them in my comment box on these post and I write down any exercises I haven’t done and do them 🙂 it is fun to do for me and gives me ideas as well!
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I do have several. I like trying new things. I’ll post a few of them soon
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Okay! good thank you! you have some good content on your blog, keep up the awesome work 🙂
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Thanks so much sweetie.. I appreciate you.
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Sooooooo just throwing it out there….have you thought that maybe you might be overtraining? It seems that there’s a trend of workouts that you’re not happy with.
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Pft me overtraining?! NEVER! lol. I need to train more! lol. jk. In all seriousness, I have not given that any thought, I seriously think it is my nutrition .. and the fact I quit crossfit and the fact that I have been semi stressed but not too stressed! oh and because my period shall be on its way! lmfao, but overtraining is always a possibility.
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Oh all of that is a kick in the teeth for sure.
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