Catching up

Wednesday am I went to yoga, having completely forgetting to go at 4pm Tuesday. I was busy working. Then, Wednesday I did not train a with weights. Thursday was Thanksgiving, and making that turkey was exhausting. Today, I lifted.

The plan was to squat, bench and deadlift as heavy as possible and then have a couple of back-off sets, but I did not get the memo that bench=pressing, bicep curling and all of its variants are of VITAL IMPORTANCE to do on Black Firday, as so did not have access to the weights and benches necessary. Warm-up was 2 x 12 x hyperextensions, 2 x 12 x push-ups. Squats, 1 x 12 x air, 1 x 10 x 45, 1 x 5 x 65, 1 x 5 x 95, 1 x 3 x 115, 3 x 3 x 125, tough but okay, 5 x 3 x 115, these started to feel good and go up nicely during the final two sets. Did one set each of dumbbell bench and one-armed dumbbell benchss 1 x 8 x 20, 1 x 5 x 20 as a warm-up, then did not have any more weights to use so after standing around waiting for some guys to finish warming up with the 25 and 30 lb dumbbells (long enough to realize that they were not in fact warming up but were doing their work-sets) I gave up on that.

So I deadlifted, 1 x 3 x 135, 1 x 2 x 155, 4 x 1 x 165, yucky form breakdown in the last rep, 1 x 2 x 155. Overhead squats 1 x 5 x 45, 3 x 5 x 65, and one last set each of push-ups and hyperextensions.

Then it was the time I was waiting for, shower, brow wax and long pedicure. So nice. I hit the grocery store for a slab of salmon for lunch, had that with half of a ripe avacodo and am starting to feel normal again.

Almost forgot to add the period report. Hey, some other peri-menopause ladies who lift may find it informative. Anyway, today my period started and the session was fine. For me, it is the week preceeding that has the most issues as far as relative weakness and uncoordination. PMS for the win! Not really.

Was it PMS's fault?

I should keep track of stuff like that, when my period starts and not overdo the lifts right before. Lower right side of the back still a little sore but a lot better then the Monday night when I crunched it. I'm going to go against the desire to lift tonight and give it another bit of rest. There. In writing. So yeah, my period started and I don't feel great today, lethagric and blah. Rereading an email I sent this morning, I used the word "Now" like 20 times. I would really love to unsend and edit that if possible. Oh well.

Do-over heavy day

Didn't make the planned lifts last time for going for it again. Squats 3 x 5 x 135, bench 3 x 5 x 95, deads 2 x 3 x 175. Gym doesn't open until 1 on Sundays, which I HATE, its such a weird inconvienet time to open on the weekend. I did not go out late last night so should be fine. However- I'm fat and sick of it. Seriously considering doing two meals a day as protein shake (one scoop whey powder, coffee in the am, almond milk at lunch) plus green veggie shake (seperately), one regular meal at dinner-time. Love the muscle underneath, hate the belly fat/ thick midsection.

Not sure what I think about this one. Lifts did not go as planned, my brain needs an adjustment. Maybe its just PMS, anyway, I started with 2 x 12 x air squats b/c felt stiff today. 1 x 10 x 45, 1 x 8 x back extensions, 1 x 5 x 65, 1 x 5 x 95, 1 x 5 x 115, 1 x 5 x 125, 1 x 3 x 135, ruh-roh, 1 x 4 x 135, 8 back extensions- my nemesis came in! 1 x 5 x 135, 1 x 3 x 135. Got the reps, need to get 5 in a row consistently. Bench press 1 x 10 x 45, 1 x 5 x 65, 1 x 5 x 85, 1 x 1 x 95 what the hell? 3 x 3 x 95 oh whatever. 1 x 12 x 75 (amrap).
Broke it down with deads. 1 x 3 x 135, 2 x 3 x 155, lost grip on the third one of both sets, needed to mix. 5 x 1 x 175, 1 x 1 x 155, 1 x 3 x 155 so there! 1 x 3 x 135. 15 back extensions and glad to leave.

Reason 1 not to ignore your cat

She was nuzzling her little heart out on me, and the lamp, early this morning and I ignored her long enough to sleep thru 6am Spin darn it! So, I took the 7:45 yoga class instead. When the instructor asked me if it was my first class I didn't want to explain that I typically take a yoga class once a year so I just said the first in a long time. Other then the seemingly endless round of Sun Salutations (bleh) it was pretty good and my muscles feel loosened up. Lifting sure makes me eat eat eat though sheesh although part of that may also be due to my weaning off birth control pills. I want to see what it is like not to have all that extra estrogen running through my body and know from experience that just stopping them completely is a bad idea. As in, a feeling of non-stop PMS.