Legs

Big workout tonight, which was a good thing. After recovering from the other night's mistake with doing too many abdominal crunches and then getting a muscle spasm through the entire rectus abdominus, you would think that I had learned my lesson. But no...I did it again tonight. Grrrr...

Been reading (bit surprise there) a bit about structuring sets to not do too many during warm up, and only doing a few to work up to near max weights. Thought I might try that tonight, but think that there is a bit more reading and planning to be done before integrating it.

On the note of integrating new things, tonight was the first time EVER that I did lunges. Strangely, I had been thinking earlier in the day that I might like to try them. I ultimately didn't, since I was looking forward to squats and leg presses. Matt, though, said he just wasn't up for squatting (both he and I have had some lower back spasms and general discomfort. He thinks that he might have a compressed disk. I'm sure that mine is simply an imbalance between stabilizing muscles in the lower back and abdominal region). So, he suggested lunges, and I figured that the universe was telling me that the time had come to try them out. DAMN...those are difficult. Moreso the balancing than the weight. Doing two sets of 10 at low weight tuckered me out almost as much as a round of heavy squatting. We'll see for how many days I stay sore.

At any rate...here's the workout and the numbers.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - Legs

Exercise	Cory	Matt
Lunges (barbell)	65 x 10 x (L/R) x 2	65 x 10 x (L/R) x 2
Leg press	530 x 4 : 800 x 7 : 980 x 1 : 890 x 8	530 x 10 : 620 x 9
Leg extensions	190 x 12 x 2	190 x 10 x 2
Hamstring curl	190 x 10 x 2	190 x 10 x 2
Seated calf raise	180 x 15 : 180 x 20	180 x 10 : 180 x 14
Glute kickbacks	160 x 10 x (L/R) : 180 x 10 x (L/R)	Skipped
Hip abduction	250 x 16 x 2	210 x 10 x 2
Hip adduction	260 x 16 x 2	190 x 12 x 2
Abdominal crunches	100 x 25 x 2
Torso rotation	150 x 20 x (L/R) x 2
TOTAL	72,880	34,160