How To Keep Your Bra Straps From Falling.
"Today is all about upper body exhaustion!" proclaimed The Trainer at 5:35am today.
"Oh really?" I asked. Then, thinking, "This is gonna suck."
And you know what? It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Before getting into the upper body, he had me exhaust my legs with weighted squats (with 50 pounds of weight), step-ups (with 30 pounds of weight) and one-legged lunge-dips. We calculated that it took me 2 minutes and 56 seconds to get through one round of the three exercises. And then I would get about a minute's rest.
Then came the hard part of the workout...
I had to sit in an up-right row machine, and row 90 pounds of weight. That was 45 pounds for each arm. Then I had to do 10 push-ups on a very small incline. And there was no rest in between. I had to do three sets each, with no rest in between.
Then we moved to the free weight area, and I had to press up 15 pounds in each arm on an incline... Followed by 10 bent-over rows. But my arms were exhausted. So the press-ups were tough.
Next, he gave me a 15-pound bar, and I had to lift it from my waist to my shoulders, with my arms straight. Then I had a 10 pound weight in each hand, and I had to lift my arms up laterally on the sides. THESE were very tough.
Then we did some various press-outs and more rows on a machine. And next came some triceps pull-downs and some biceps curls. We finished with some ab work.
All this in 50 minutes!
My arms and back are gonna be so sore tomorrow. And I still can't get over the fact that I rowed 90 pounds. No wonder my bra straps don't slide off my shoulders anymore... (A problem I had suffered with for about 7 years!)
My training has really started to build and tone out my shoulders and back.
"Oh really?" I asked. Then, thinking, "This is gonna suck."
And you know what? It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Before getting into the upper body, he had me exhaust my legs with weighted squats (with 50 pounds of weight), step-ups (with 30 pounds of weight) and one-legged lunge-dips. We calculated that it took me 2 minutes and 56 seconds to get through one round of the three exercises. And then I would get about a minute's rest.
Then came the hard part of the workout...
I had to sit in an up-right row machine, and row 90 pounds of weight. That was 45 pounds for each arm. Then I had to do 10 push-ups on a very small incline. And there was no rest in between. I had to do three sets each, with no rest in between.
Then we moved to the free weight area, and I had to press up 15 pounds in each arm on an incline... Followed by 10 bent-over rows. But my arms were exhausted. So the press-ups were tough.
Next, he gave me a 15-pound bar, and I had to lift it from my waist to my shoulders, with my arms straight. Then I had a 10 pound weight in each hand, and I had to lift my arms up laterally on the sides. THESE were very tough.
Then we did some various press-outs and more rows on a machine. And next came some triceps pull-downs and some biceps curls. We finished with some ab work.
All this in 50 minutes!
My arms and back are gonna be so sore tomorrow. And I still can't get over the fact that I rowed 90 pounds. No wonder my bra straps don't slide off my shoulders anymore... (A problem I had suffered with for about 7 years!)
My training has really started to build and tone out my shoulders and back.
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