Reply #1: Friday, 27 November 2009

[ZenLefty]

Started with bench press, standard grip.
Warm up set - 135, 16 reps
225, 12 reps
245, 10 reps
245, 8 reps
245, 6 reps
225, 8 reps
Bench felt good, could have gone a little heavier but there was no one around to spot me so I took it easy. I felt a little pain in my left wrist. Chalked it up to getting old.

Standing behind-neck barbell press
135, 12 reps
155, 10 reps
155, 8 reps
155, 8 reps
155, 7 reps
Ran out of gas on these. I do these without cheating, no jumping or swinging the bar to use momentum to lift. On the last three sets, I work to failure.

Leg Raise (vertical)
Body weight, 3 sets of 16

Dips
Body weight, 3 sets of 12

I superset the leg raise and dips, mainly because they're in the same area. Leg raise has always been a challenge with me, I haven't done much core for a while and am working them in again. It took a lot of resolve to get the 16th one in.

Sit ups, Hoist machine
80, 4 sets of 12 reps

Wanted to stay later to do some close grip bench and cardio, but ZenLeftyGirl was ready to go so I cut it short.

Tonight I'll see if I can work in some stretching.