Week two: Weightlifting plan

WOW!!!  **Keyshia Cole's Neffe voice** Are you Serious????

LOL - DUDESSSSS - I am SO FEELING this!!!  This week I concentrated on challenging myself and wow is all I can say.  I had posted about the weights I am using - and today concentrated on, like the book says, what I can REALLY bear - not just what's comfortable - so here's the revision:

Squats - 90lbs!!!  And I really wasn't stressing.  I will go to 100 when I do these again Thursday
Seated row - 75lbs
Seated calf raise - 90lbs again - not stressing - will go to 100 also

When I do workout B on Tuesday - I am going to go for
Deadlift - 80lbs
Lat pulldown - 75lbs
Shoulder press - 20lb barbells each hand

This is really working out well.  I feel challenged, sore but not in pain and I can feel the strength.  I am still struggling with push ups though.  I never had good upper body strength and this is my area for serious improvement - so I will focus on upper body building when I do my workouts this week - will make sure I keep my form and keep pushing myself.

On the eating - I am STILL not grazing or gorging!!  I have kept it sensible - my replacement snacks of protein oatmeal, cheese and crackers, cottage cheese and raisins have worked really well.  I have had some sweets but find that after I eat a couple pieces or bites - it turns my stomach.  WOW!!

I posted a chart where I am keeping track of my inches - lost .5 inch in my waist and hips so I am glad of that - weight is STILL the same!!!!  that sucks - but Rome wasn't built in a day, right??

Do you have a beginners weightlifting plan in the book.  I know I carried around some dead weight but it's hard to even think about some of these weights. 

Z

The great thing about this book is that you do the exercises with what YOU can do - even if it's just your body weight to begin with.  How much weight you use and increase to is up to YOU to gauge.  That's why I LOVE IT!!!

Looks like this is really working out well for you.  Congrats.

thanks MJ!!!

The program is fun to me!  I get the biggest kick out of asking the big dudes if they through with the 70 or 80lb barbells..... they just look like WHOA - she serious - I be like - hell to the yea I am - now MOVE nicca!!!!!  LMAOOOOOO

You just love playing with the big boys don't ya?

MJ, I really TRULY do..... lol  ain't nothing like watching a mofo grunt over doing 90 lbs on the leg press and finish then I go 'can I get this bruh?' he be like, 'yea' and I proceed to load and EXTRA 70lbs and don't make a SOUND through my sets.....

KING KONG AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON ME!!!!!!

Whoops - bad movie reference - just remembered that nicca got shot up in the end......

Looks great but ummm how you didn't answer me?????

Now I am a big girl so I let is slide this time and I went in and did the squats like you suggested on the rack.

Alls I can say is why ain't nobody had told me this was for real.  LOLOLOL I felt like superwoman for real.  It is a much better lift than the squats with dumbells.  I did light and I did higher reps.  I will be getting back in there on my next leg to give it what its worth.  I hope I did them right it felt right.

Barbell leg squat 110 lbs
Barbell lunges 90lbs
Leg Press still at 308 but I need to adjust to that weight before I up it.

Damn damn DAMN!!!!

MY sincere apologies lady!!!!  I thought about that **** like 5 different times and STILL didn't get the info to you...... charge it to my head - not my heart.

Here's a great site for showing you form and excercises to do - I have the link alread on the quad exercises, scroll down and you will see the squat with the rack - the site gives you videos to show you how it should be done as well as detailed descriptions:

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/exercises.php?MainMuscle=Quadriceps

Yea - that squat ain't no joke!!!!  LOL  I am going to try 100-110 when I do them again Thursday.  Instead of lunges all the time - have you tried step ups?

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