Amanda's Running Journal - Page 25

ajarvis · 11-Feb-05, 05:20 PM

Thanks

I'm almost 100% so back to the int. Monday. I did the same thing on Friday as I did today and it didn't feel anywhere near as difficult!

ajarvis · 14-Feb-05, 04:18 PM

Monday February 14th

Cardio

I didn't have much time today because I dealt with a nasty customer that overflowed into my workout time

but I figured something is better than nothing!

I did a very short 2 min warm up on 6.0mph.

Then:

.2miles at 6.0mph - .2miles at 8.5mph

I honestly can't remember the distance. I was too worried about what the time was. Not the best way to workout. I think it was about 2.5miles. I know the time is right. I believe the time was 20:40. I don't like working out with a time limit.

Actually 2.4miles would make more sense. 2.4miles in about 20:40.

ajarvis · 15-Feb-05, 03:56 PM

Tuesday February 15th

Lower Body

Deadlift:

-110lbs 8 reps 1 set
-110lbs 6 reps 2 sets

Squat:
-115lbs 8 reps 1 set
-125lbs 6 reps 2 sets
-115lbs 8 reps 1 set

Calf Raises (on leg press machine):

-144lbs 10 reps 3 sets

Leg Press:

144lbs 8 reps 3 sets

Seated Leg Curl:

-84lbs 4 reps
-96lbs 6 reps 2 sets

Had to do lower body today instead of upper body because I hurt my wrist somehow last week during bench press. I don't feel I ate enough beforehand since I always find lower body difficult.

ajarvis · 16-Feb-05, 03:14 PM

Wednesday February 16th

Cardio

Took it really easy today, I hurt my knee yesterday doing squats, and I'm really sore

3miles 27:10

ajarvis · 22-Feb-05, 12:19 PM

Monday February 21st

Cardio

I wasn't going to do intervals or anything I was going to take it easy, but that seemed to easy!

so I did .2mile int.

I increased the recovery time, but of course I increased it too much! I went up to 6.5mph from 6.0. I managed to do that for 2 sets, but then went down to 6.3, and eventually to 6.0. Next time I'll leave the recovery at about 6.2 and see how that goes. By the time I got to 2.6 miles I was beat! I wasn't going to finish but I did. The 2.6 - 2.8 I ran most of it on 8.0, but ended up at 4.0 to recover for about 30sec - 1 min. I finished the run on 7.5mph increasing to about 8.2mph.

Total: 3miles in 26:04

oh, and I did work out on Thursday. I did an upper body workout, but I didn't write it down and I didn't have time to record it in my journal. I did not run on Friday because I forgot a shirt

ajarvis · 22-Feb-05, 03:13 PM

Tuesday February 22nd

Upper Body

Standing Barbell Curls:

-50lbs 8 reps
-50lbs 6 reps
-40lbs 8 reps

Skullcrushers:

-30lbs 6 reps
-40lbs 8 reps 3 sets

Bent over Rows:

-30lbs 8 reps 3 sets

Benchpress:

-60lbs 12 reps 2 sets
-60lbs 6 reps 1 set
*My wrist still hurts from 2 weeks ago. I thought it better to lower the weight and up the reps. The wrist isn't too bad but I could feel it hurting a bit with the BB curls so this was better.

Situps:

2 sets 12 reps

Leg Raises:

2 sets 10 reps

Crunches on floor
8 reps 1 set

I HATE AB WORK!!

But I guess that means I have to do it more

ajarvis · 24-Feb-05, 03:03 PM

Wednesday February 23rd

Cardio

Very bad cardio day! I tried this "program" on the treadmill. Not a good idea. I should have known better, because my knees, and achilles act up if I run on an incline on the treadmill. It was a 5k fun run program and of course it had "hills" anyways, my knee acted up and it hurt. I was only on there for 20min. Mind you it was a good intense 20min. So I switched to eliptical for remaining 10min.

ajarvis · 24-Feb-05, 03:16 PM

Thursday February 24th

Lower Body

Squats
-95lbs 8 reps 2 sets
-105lbs 8 reps 2 sets
* I decided to stay low today considering what happened with my knee and my form last week. This week was much better. I probably could have gone higher and still had good form, but I didn't want to risk it.

Leg Press
-156lbs 8 reps 3 sets

Adducter machine
-96lbs 8 reps 3 sets

Deadlifts
-110lbs 8 reps 1 set
-100lbs 8 reps 2 sets
*I took a break inbetween sets and someone took the 110 bar

Seated leg curl
-84lbs 10 reps
-96lbs 8 reps

Ran outa time

ajarvis · 01-Mar-05, 12:20 PM

Monday February 28th

Cardio

Intervals, on the TM. There is a new TM and it has a speed int. setting. I don't know what the intervals were but it was close to .2miles. I did 6.2mph for recovery, and 8.2mph for working speed. I didn't do the last interval instead I kept my pace at 7.5mph and increased to 8.0mph (this is for last .5miles) Finished with:

3 miles in 24:57

ajarvis · 03-Mar-05, 03:36 PM

Wednesday March 2nd

Cardio

4miles 36:40

Couldnt Work out yesterday (March 1st) because there was no one to cover for me at work.

ajarvis · 03-Mar-05, 03:44 PM

Thursday March 3rd

Weights

Bicep Curl With BB:
-50lbs 8 reps

Bicep Curl with DBs

-20lbs 8 reps
-20lbs 6 reps
(each arm)

Squat

-95lbs 10 reps
-105lbs 8 reps 2 sets
-115lbs 6 reps
-105lbs 8 reps

Barbell Bench Press

-80lbs 8 reps

DB Bench Press

-60lbs 8 reps (2 30lb DBs)
-70lbs 8 reps (2 35lb DBs)

Deadlift

-110lbs 8 reps
-110lbs 6 reps

Skullcrushers

-30lbs 6 reps
-40lbs 8 reps 2 sets
-40lbs 3 reps - couldn't do anymore

Had to combine upper and lower this week because of my missed workout on Tuesday.

Amicus · 11-Mar-05, 04:36 PM

Amanda,

About your intervals on the treadmill. Do you manually adjust the speed or do you program it into the treadmill and let the computer take care of it? I haven't figured out a way to do this yet on my gym's treadmill. The programs on my treadmill use inclines to increase difficulty but don't increase the speed.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Amicus

ajarvis · 13-Mar-05, 08:47 AM

Thanks Amicus! I have to change the speeds manually on most of the treadmills. Which is very annoying! There is one treadmill that has speed intervals set into it, but it doesn't tell you intervals of what lol. I've used that a few times and it's pretty close to what I normally do.

treadmill intervals