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!
