Saturday, August 17, 2013

Day 96: Going Heavy | Dealing With It

I can’t lie, I am pretty upset about my Great Danes diagnosis with cancer.  Especially since I have watched several family members die of the disease.  However, both Kelly and I felt guilty about our pity party yesterday and we hit the gym hard.  She hit the cardio, I hit the weights. 

The past couple of weight lifting sessions I have been concentrating on the large muscles in my back. Conventional wisdom is that by focusing on the large muscles, those in your back and legs, you will burn more calories and lose more body fat. 

What I devised was hitting the machines in order, that is, lower back, mid back, upper back.  My routine splits up the back exercises since I am lifting heavy they have a tendency of burning out my biceps and triceps before I get a chance to burn out my lats. 

My high point of the whole work out was when I had time left over to work on my legs.  I was going to go for 600lbs on the free weight seated leg press but it was taken by a group of three people, two guys and one girl,  who were alternating turns pressing as much as 240lbs.  I had to use the machines. 

The machine that I used maxed out at 410lbs with that in mind if you do the math I moved a combined leg press and calf raise 24,600lbs.  I like to write it like that since it makes it seem more impressive. 

Daily Recap:
Matt:  Pushing plates for 35 minutes, whole body workout

Kelly: 30 minutes cardio machine 10 minutes rowing machine

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