Blaming it on the Baseline & FMM

I finished my workout 2.5 hours ago and I'm still feeling a bit shaky ...

Today's goal was to repeat the Challenge workout I did before I traveled to measure how much strength/stamina I may have lost/gained (or maintained) over the past month.

Just like last time, the goal was to see how many reps I could do within two minutes.

Here are the results:

Exercise	KG	8/17/11	9/19/11
Squats	15	65	92
Push-ups	bw	25	40
Seated row	20	60	80
Step up	5	45/leg	50/leg
Prone jackknife	bw	40	50

I was very pleased to see an improvement in all the exercises.

The squats weren't difficult, but after about 1 1/2 minutes I slowed down in order to maintain form. The push ups --- 40 is awesome, but I'm sure I should have been going deeper. They're so damn tough! The seated row wasn't a problem except for the last 15 or so ... keeping the same momentum and watching my posture started to become challenging. To my surprise I really struggled with the step ups. I don't know if it's because my legs were tired from the squats, but after the first 20, my pace dropped WAY down ... not easy at all! Finally, prone jackknives. I did them in 3 goes: 20/20/10 ... I'm happy with that. They're still a very challenging exercise, but I'm very pleased with how far I've come with the jackknives.

I had wanted to do some cardio after the weights, but I was too knackered. So aside from my warm-up 15 minutes of cardio, I just focused on strength training today. I'll be doing Challenge B either on Wednesday or Thursday ...

Before I sign off, Kenlie's FMM this week is about charity. I didn't write a post specifically about it today, but I've linked up to a post a wrote a few years ago from my other blog (where I write about general stuff not focused on fitness).

That's all from me. Gotta get to work!