{"id":5016,"date":"2012-05-25T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2012-05-26T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T21:27:31","slug":"another-semester-of-strength-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/another-semester-of-strength-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Semester of Strength Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

September thru December 2011 I beefed up my body a lot working out at CCSF<\/a>. This semester I didn’t make nearly as much progress. On a lot of fronts I just kept things even. Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n

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Everything I do is 2 sets of 10 reps. On most machines I stayed even from last semester<\/a><\/strong>. Here are the differences:<\/p>\n

Chest Press<\/strong>: 75lbs to 110lbs. Excellent… except that I had left off in December at 120lbs. Feh!<\/p>\n

Lateral Raise<\/strong> (still trying to build up my shoulder profile) I worked it every time I went to the gym and went from 70 to 85. Importantly, just a few weeks ago I realized I’ve been sitting on the machine such that I’m mostly just using my anterior deltoids instead of the correct posture that would use my anterior AND posterior deltoids. Ugh, it’s waay harder to do the exercise the right way!<\/p>\n

Bicep Curl<\/strong>: Still I’m hovering around 95lbs, but I still like how my biceps look and feel compared to before working out.<\/p>\n

Yoga ball crunches<\/strong>: I lean back on top of the yoga ball and do a sit-up, it works the abs better than a sit-up, and it burns like someone is stabbing me repeatedly with a knife (joy). The knives used to be unbearable at about 8 reps, 2 sets. Now it’s about 11 reps, 3 sets.<\/p>\n

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What’s next? I’ve always noted that I don’t have enough cardio. I’ve just been running on the treadmill to warm up for the machines. Well, over the summer I’ll be visiting Megan a lot, she lives in Kensington at the top of the Berkeley Hills, about 800 feet of elevation… I now have a nice bike… Bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September thru December 2011 I beefed up my body a lot working out at CCSF. This semester I didn’t make nearly as much progress. On a lot of fronts I just kept things even. Here are the highlights: Everything I do is 2 sets of 10 reps. On most machines I stayed even from last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}