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Today was a fun day at the gym. The following lifts, all with 45 seconds of rest between sets. Still need to work on my rest period between supersets though. Rested for 90 seconds between the first two supersets but then ended up resting almost 5 minutes between the pulldowns and the Romanian deadlifts


Deadlift 3 x 10 @ 165
DB incline bench press 3 x 10 @ 110

Bulgarian split squat 3 x 10 @ 70
Mixed grip lat pulldown 3 x 10 @ 9 (probably 90lbs)

Romanian deadlift 3 x 10 @ 145
Swiss-ball lateral roll 3 x 10


I'm also just finishing up reading Barry Sears' The Zone because I want some ideas and recipes that I can use over here. So to get my protein requirement and figure out my lean muscle mass I needed to know how much I weigh. I asked the guy at the gym if they had a scale which was interesting. I don't know the Arabic word for scale and charades wasn't working so I finally ended up asking, "how many kilograms me?" and then pretended I was stepping on a scale. But as it turns out they don't have a scale at the gym. So I ended up using the assisted dip machine (it kind of looks like a teeter-totter with weights on one end). I'm not positive where the fulcrum is on this thing but I hope it's in the center. I took off all the weight and made sure it would balance with no weight. Then I added what I thought I would weigh and sat on the machine. After a little trial and error I determined that according to the dip machine I weigh about 168 lbs. Don't know if that is 100% correct but hopefully it's close.