Baby Got Back

NOT THAT KIND OF BACK!!!

lol

These pictures were taken today with Michael's blackberry... sorry they're blurry but that's the quality on camera phones. The second one is really blurry and it makes the tops of my arms look HUGE- they're really not that big, it's a blur you're seeing! lol

Today, we did "Lynne." The prescribed workout is 5 rounds of:

Body weight bench press
Pull-ups

as many as you can do of each in a round... so you just keep going until you hit fatigue each round.

Well, I can't bench press 135 pounds so I just had to guess what weight to use... Plus, I've never really done bench presses seriously so I was guessing on weight. I decided to do 65 pounds on the bench press and level 9 on the pull-ups.

I realize now though that I totally short-changed myself. I can't wait to do this workout again and take it up a notch now that I know what to expect.

Here's my rep count for bench press/pull-ups for each round:
10/10
10/10
10/10
12/8
11/10

Since it was my first time really doing the bench press, I realized after the third round that I wasn't giving it all I had because once my arms started to get tired, I was afraid to keep going. I was scared that I was going to drop the bar on my chest. But then I realized Michael was there spotting and I know he would never let anything bad happen which is why I was able to do 12 reps on the 4th round and 11 on the 5th. That's what I mean by I short-changed myself b/c I didn't realize it until 3 rounds were already done.

Oh well... room for improvement next time.

Tonight we're having friends over to watch the Red Wings game and play some cards... should be fun!

Until tomorrow,
Kelsalynn