Daily Exercise Thread - 1/19/04

[supernova]

Good morning, everyone! :hi: Ready for another day of working your bod? :D

I did 55 minutes on the treadmill up a moderate hill this morning. Tomorrow I'll do an interval workout for about 45 minutes.

I did do my The Firm DVD last night for an upper body workout. Since I haven't done it in a while I cut back on the weight. I think I can add a little more next time.

[ewagner]

1. Made it back to cardiac rehab

this am....too freakin cold to go out (according to Docs)on Friday and Monday. Wind chills in the -25 range and high temp of 1 to 5 degrees for both days.

Got up to 10 Mins @3mph on the treadmill....(an improvement)

9 mins @40 rpm on the aerodyne.....(also an improvement)

got released to drive by myself by the docs yesterday so I'm enjoying the freedom

[Left Is Write]

2. I went to the gym today.

I did 40 minutes on the elliptical, alternating between a moderately fast and very fast pace.

I did upper body weight work yesterday, so I left the weight room alone.

[OnionPatch]

3. I love the Firm series

I haven't done any for awhile though, they would kill me right now! Which one do you do?

Edited to add: Oops, am I supposed to post my daily workout here? My bad...I didn't work out today. I'm still in the "planning" stage. Maybe you all can give me some inspiration.

[feminazi]

4. today is legs day

squats, leg curls, lunges, calf raises

uggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh

[Longhorn]

5. Woo-Hoo! I finally did it!

I exercised! I did 20 minutes on the elliptical and then an upper body workout on my home gym. I tried to push it a little -- not to pain but beyond comfortable. It feels good to know I'm back on an exercise plan!

[flvegan]

6. Awesome!

If you're sore tomorrow, don't let that derail your good intentions. It just means you did something right.

[Longhorn]

8. I'm actually looking forward to being sore!

For the very reason you mentioned! :D

[flvegan]

7. Okay, shoulders and calves today

Did Arnold presses, 4x12;
Front d-bell laterals, 4x12;
Nautilus side laterals, super slow, negatives, 4x12;
Hammer Strength bench shrugs, 4x12, super slow;
Seated calf raises (with a new record weight for me on the last set) 3x12, then 1x8;
Standing calf raises, w/final set being the entire weight stack + 70 lbs stacked on top, 4x12;

I'm gonna feel this one tomorrow.

[Left Is Write]

9. Question for you -

When I post my weights exercises, I'd like to say which ones I specifically did, but I don't know the names of all of them. I do bicep curls, prison curls, chest press, and French press that I can name, but I also do many other exercises I don't know specific names for. Is there a website anywhere that has that kind of info? I also know that some of them go by different names to different people.

[Longhorn]

10. Here are two sites that I like.

They also demonstrate how to do the exercises.

http://www.thetrainingstationinc.com/exercises.html#shoulders

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/exername.php

The second one lets you sort by machine or muscle group, etc. to find various exercises. Makes it easier to find or adapt exercises for your equipment and needs.

[Left Is Write]

11. So far I've only looked at bodybuilding.com, but that's great!

The shoulder exercise I do most often is that seated dumbbell press (although I usually do it standing).

Thanks for these links! I don't like to do the same exercises over and over and over, so I'm going to try some of these that I haven't done before.

Edited to add that what I refer to as "prison curls" are called "concentration curls" on bodybuilding.com.

[Cobalt Violet]

13. Thanks for those links.

[Cobalt Violet]

12. 1 hour Pilates and lower body weights.

I did dumbell squats, leg presses ,leg curls, thigh abductor, thigh adductor, leg extensions. All x12, x10, x 8, x6, x 12, x12.

I still am not sure if I am doing enough. I feel weird about not doing any cardio today.

[flvegan]

15. I find that on leg day

I can hardly ever do cardio. My legs are usually way too burnt.

With all that quad work, I'd think you probably did a nice job of burning calories, anyway...

[H3Dakota]

16. That's why I do my cardio first

Even on leg day... I still have a ways to go on uncovering the muscle I know is there, so I don't skip my cardio. I'll go a bit lighter on leg day, but I still get in at least 30 mins of it.

But, yeah - I agree... that's a bunch of quad work for one day, probably don't NEED cardio with that much work!

My ankle still hurts after I twisted it on Tuesday, so I kept my workout to an easy 30 minute walk at 10% incline today. Followed by 30 mins strength training.

I'm taking this week to focus on body weight exercises each day - pushups, crunches, no weight lunges & squats, pullups & back extensions. I'll be testing for my Black Belt in 6 months or so & I have to do 100 squats/pushups/leg lifts during the test. I've *got* to build up so that I can do that without embarrassing myself! The squats & leg lifts won't be a problem, but the pushups? No way... I'm lucky to get in 25 each set today. :cry: Oh, yeah - and those doggone triangle pushups, too... where you put your hands flat on the floor, touching to form an open triangle between them. Yikes.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

14. Ran outside for about 45 minutes. n/t