Gym: achievement unlocked: 65kg benchpress

[hawkwing_lb]

Two 0.5km intervals on the treadmill, 3mins each.

2x5 @60kg benchpress
2x5 @65kg benchpress
2x5 @30kg assist assisted pullup
1x4 @30kg assist assisted pullup
3x10 @6kg/arm chest fly
2x10 incline situp

15mins exercise bike, resistance 8, 5km.

ETA: Forgot legpress.

1x10 @73kg legpress.
2x10 @80kg legpress.
1x10 @86kg legpress.

Comments

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

You are MADE OF MIGHT!!! Go you!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I still haven't got my wind back (or seen the physio about my bad ankle!) but I can still LIFT HEAVY THINGS WHEEE!

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I am a devout believer in assisted pull-ups. When I was a kid, I could never do a pull-up and there was nothing between success and utter failiure. Now I do 30 pull-ups 3x a week at about 45% support. I still can barely do one and a half without support, but I'm no longer an utter failure. Traditional athletics teaches us to be failures, in my experience.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I don't think so really. It's just that a lot of the stuff involved with traditional athletics was developed with men-as-standard: female-bodied people take longer to build the same amounts and kinds of muscle, which means that stuff like unassisted pull-ups can be discouraging, and hard to see measurable improvement on, unlike assisted.

Especially when you weigh in, like me, at 108-110kg these days. :P