July 07, 2004
I feel a shift in the balance of the force
Today was leg day.
Most people hate leg day.
I, on the other hand, LOVE LOVE LOVE leg day... you KNOW you wanna know what I did... I know you do...
Unfortunately I have no idea what I did because it has all left my brain now that I'm done... I know it involved HIGH reps and some friendly competition with a guy in the class who always CHECKS my db weights to make sure he's lifting more than I am, and at one point he was doing stiff-legged deadlifts with the 30s so I walked over, grabbed the 35s and did the full set of 20 with bigger weights than he had, standing right next to him, lookin' in the mirror at him as I did each one! I think that ticked him off a little bit, but in a friendly competative, "I've gotta be stronger than that girl" kinda way... but OH BOY did that KILL my ass!!! I still don't have the grip strength I really need either, so the last few reps I was worried the DBs were going to slip right out of my fingers and fall on the floor. But I made it, and all was right with the world.
Gonna do another 4 miles with Alissa tomorrow, and hopefully if I am not up till 3 am working on servers again (god I HATE on-call week) I will swim in the morning too. My motivation is up, my body image is up, I feel strong and capable and I wonder sometimes if I'm mildly bi-polar or if its just the normal hormonal fluctuations that swing me back and forth on this pendulum... cause when I go down... I hit bottom hard and feel pretty miserable while I'm there, but it doesn't seem to last very long and I'm right back up to where I am now... flying high and feeling good, and ready to conquer the world.
Maybe I just need more consistant sleep and more frequent sex.
;)
Posted by Lexy at July 7, 2004 01:59 PM
Comments
as long as you keep your shoulderblades rotated back and down the DBs are actually not bad at all... not that I've gone very heavy on them tho. I can dead quite a lot more on the bar than I can on dbs tho (again with the grip strength)... straps, eh? curious... hmmm...
Posted by: brenna on 07/07/04 @ 03:23 PM
Gotta admit I wish I felt as good as you do right now. I am so S O R E... Enjoy every precious second of you bliss!!!
Posted by: se on 07/07/04 @ 04:50 PM
Well, I'm doing SLDLs with two plates a side on an olympic bar, which is challenging to my grip, but not fatal...but if I do straight deads, that's three a side, and I do those, SLDLs and bent-over rows on the same day...and my hands can't take that at *all*...so I'm thinking straps.
I do shrugs with the 100#dbs and am in constant danger of losing a toe...I can't imagine trying to keep them up, rotating my shoulders, *and* not rolling over my back during SLDLs....
Posted by: Jim aka V-Dub on 07/08/04 @ 05:03 AM
Just found your site via Trish and wanted to say hi. I can only hope that when I'm allowed to do weights again next week that leg days will be as happy for me as they are for you!
Posted by: Nicole on 07/09/04 @ 10:58 AM
You, obviously, know my thinking on Leg Day.
As well as sleeping and frequent sex.
So, I suppose, there's no reason for this. hrm.
Oh, right...how does doing SLDLs with dumbbells feel? I've done 'em with straight bar and EZ-Curl, but never DBs...don't trust my shoulders rotating.
Straps. Gotta get straps. Gotta go heavy.
Posted by: Jim (a.k.a. the Mighty Slug of Thunder) on 07/07/04 @ 02:57 PM