Banner day at the Gym
Last night I had a personal training session but decided to go straight from work and work on sad little leg and abs before working with Carol. Right now I’m just working on strengthening my quad, hamstring and butt. I can now do 3 sets of 30 front leg raises…when I started my leg was burning after 10…that was 1.5 wks ago. I also do side leg raises, donkey kicks, inner thigh raises and exercise on hands and knees where leg goes straight back and arm out to the front for my lower back. My balance was off a bit but not bad as I just started doing these….3 sets of 20 reps. Plus I did tons of stretching.
So session went well…I am amazed at how much upper body strength I now have…was decent before but totally kickass now. We did the assisted chest press…and my fourth set was 110 lbs, 12 reps with no spotting at all. Wow!!! , pec flies were 25 lb dumbells in each hand….that’s my heaviest ever. After a host of other stuff, my last exercise for chest was full on, one leg pushups (my knees were not on the ground) 3 sets of 15 pushups…knocked them out of the park.
Shoulders were next……My evil trainer made me do standing shoulder press…one leg of course…started with 15 lb dumbells…straight up palm out and then on the down turn palm in….by the end of those I literally couldnt feel my shoulders. I didn’t even look at what weight I fnished with. We also did bentover flies (sitting of course) for my rear delts…I haven’t done a bentover fly since all this happened so it hurt alot…but I did them with increasing weight 3 sets of 12 reps. The last exercise was shrugs…the last set was 30 lb dumbells 15 reps holding the last rep til she told me to stop.
Just wanted to share…it’s so nice to know that some of me is getting stronger while I’m waiting to be able to start doing my legs again.
What a feeling!!!!
Love those arms!
