Workouts
So yesterday I started two new workouts that were in the May issue of Oxygen Women's Fitness.
Ow.
I did the 6-week ab routine and started the 8 week chin up goal. My abs and arms ache so bad I took Ibuprofen twice today. Sweet!
The ab routine is deceptively simple. It's three exercises, leg raises in the captain's chair (3 sets, 15 reps), side crunches with weights (3x12) and crunches on the ball, with a medicine ball (3x12).
I'm not 100% sure that I believe that the chin-up plan will work. I have no upper body strength, it turns out. The first step is to raise the bar on the smith machine so you are about an inch or two above the floor with your arms extended. Then you bring your feet in until they are planted on floor and lift as high as you can. I can get halfway. And I can only do 7 reps out of 12 before I need a break. I didn't think that my arms were tired after three sets (I completed eventually) so I did a fourth of ten reps. My arms hurt so damn bad today. I can feel it in my biceps, shoulders and back. It just may work.
I worry that I'll drift away from the plan, forget my goal. I did the couch to 5K plan, but it took two tries to make it. Maybe writing it here will keep me on plan.
Ow.
I did the 6-week ab routine and started the 8 week chin up goal. My abs and arms ache so bad I took Ibuprofen twice today. Sweet!
The ab routine is deceptively simple. It's three exercises, leg raises in the captain's chair (3 sets, 15 reps), side crunches with weights (3x12) and crunches on the ball, with a medicine ball (3x12).
I'm not 100% sure that I believe that the chin-up plan will work. I have no upper body strength, it turns out. The first step is to raise the bar on the smith machine so you are about an inch or two above the floor with your arms extended. Then you bring your feet in until they are planted on floor and lift as high as you can. I can get halfway. And I can only do 7 reps out of 12 before I need a break. I didn't think that my arms were tired after three sets (I completed eventually) so I did a fourth of ten reps. My arms hurt so damn bad today. I can feel it in my biceps, shoulders and back. It just may work.
I worry that I'll drift away from the plan, forget my goal. I did the couch to 5K plan, but it took two tries to make it. Maybe writing it here will keep me on plan.
