Exerbabble for 11-28-5

While letting my mind wander in the library, I accidentally plotted out my exermacising plan for the next eight weeks. This caused me to realize, “Wow. I’ve been exermacising for EIGHT WEEKS NOW.”

Next four weeks, I’ll maintain my 4-1 pattern as it’s been. (For the most part, I’ve given myself days off if I felt the need.) After a two-day break for Xmas, I’ll fall into a 3-2 pattern until school restarts. As I have Weight Training Monday and Wednesday morning, I’ll probably Y Saturday and Sunday. I will pick either Thursday or Friday as my fifth day. Up to me. No more than five days a week. I must heed the healing and strengthing power of sitting on my ass.

This has been my breaking-in period.

I’ll have to ease up on my squats. I simply can not make progress by being sore like this. I’ll have to ease up to 65 lbs and maintain my reps until I stop being so sore the day after. *nods decisively*

I was doing some notes on how I could gradually increase my laps, pec/deltoid machine work, and push-ups. In addition, I want to be bold and enter the cardio room. It intimidates me! It really does. Just the same way some girls are intimidated by the weight room. I’ll probably need a few days breaking-in to understand what machine does what. But after that, I’ll find a baseline and otherwise increase two minutes each time. That gives me four good leg-killers. Laps, cardio machines, squats, and deadlifting. Though, deadlifting has more to do with killing your back. But whatever. I’m conscious about not doubling up deadlifting or squating. *nods*

I liked using that big blue ball to stretch on. Supposedly stretching your abs like that is good for you. Or something. I just like getting the range of motion.

Long term goals: Bench press body weight. Squat body weight. 20 pull-ups. Be able to curl 50 lb freeweights. (Halfway there? Ha ha.) Do double my body weight on the easy lat pull-down, en route to doing a one-armed pull-up. I’m dead-serious about that. I weigh so little as it is, I should be able to do a one-armed pulled without being incredibly hulk.

Also, call me crazy, I want to weigh 125 again. It’s entirely possible, if only for a moment. Remember that I weigh myself naked. Clothed, I weigh five, seven pounds more. Or something. The trick is that I don’t intend so skip on a single meal. Nope. I won’t cut taxes, I’ll raise government spending! Er. I don’t need to necessarily work out “more”, it’s only a matter of time that I’ll burn calories by running/keeping my heart rate up for a constant period. Grawr.

Or not, hey, whatever, I don’t need to lose weight at all. It’s just a notion I entertain. Just to give people even more reason to hate/be jealous of me. Ha ha.

As for goals for these eight weeks… I’m currently at 10/10/10 @ 115 lbs on the one incline bench press machine. In eight weeks, I want to be doing 15/15/15 @ 125. A modest increase, really. I want to increase my reps. *nods*

I want to get myself up to running three miles. Granted, I’m not “running” the entire mile as it is. But add four laps (about a quarter mile) each week, and my legs should adapt. Just the same as I saw dramatic improvement when I stopped just running four laps and jumped to sixteen. My stamina came out of nowhere. MY FIRST DAY, I GOT WINDED HALF A LAP IN. *nods* I took a few days to stop cramping before two laps. Now I can run six to eight laps without feeling like I’m killing myself. (Middle lane is about 15.5 laps to a mile.)

Having since started teaching myself more ab techniques, I want to keep a loose eye on a clock, and do it longer and long. Hard to gauge a time limit.

Y`all might remember my excitment at doing twenty push-ups. Thing is, I did that at home when I was fully rested. And I collapsed afterwards. I couldn’t move my arms afterwards? Heh. I want to add push-ups to my workouts somewhere. Why? Well, it works all the stabilizer muscles to keep you from falling down, as well as a good upper-body exercise. I easily knocked out two sets of ten yesterday, so that’s my starting point. I want to eventually have three sets, but I’ll start with two. I want to work up to three sets of twenty by the end of eight ten weeks. I can do simple math. I should stick with adding one a week to each set, unless I suddenly become buff.

I have a loose goal if moving from 75 lbs to 90 lbs on the simple pectoral fly and lateral raise (deltoids) machines, but I have no specific idea of how it’ll pan out. That’s a secondary goal, something that I know will happen with time. I was shocked as hell when I moved from 60 to 75, as I didn’t seem to be gaining any more reps. I have a feeling that some motions don’t NEED massive amounts of reps prior to adding more weight. I was at about 15 reps on the pectoral fly when I upped the weight, and I was immediately able to do around ten. So hmm.

While I talk about all these things I want to do or “add” to my workouts, in reality I’m actually shortening my workouts. I’m conscious of what I’ve done the day before, and sure to not work those muscles two consecutive days. Naturally I cheated and beat my abs up three days in a row this past weekend. Whoops. *giggles* But where I might have done both hip abductors every day, I’ve been switching off which I do. I’ve inadvertantly developed a pattern where I switch off bicep and tricep type work. Which really just means the difference of whether you’re pushing weights away from you, or pulling them towards you. Just a simple observation.

I don’t like doing leg extensions. They’re awkward and um. Well, I have better ways to work my legs! Ha ha. I also haven’t touched a sled yet. That’s why I do squats!

It’s only been eight weeks. Oh boy, I’m going to fill out that wife-beater so well come spring. Shed my clothes, shed my winter fur and BAM. :: emits Aura ::

Addendum: Also, if I haven’t mentioned it before, I want to make it a priority to get my workout down to an hour, maybe forty-five minutes, especially since I work out five days a week. This coming week, I’ll be more conversative, and respect the strengthening power of rest.