[LisaC]

Started NROLW - Feb 16

167ish pounds - 24 BMI according to book
currently 164-168: who knows? the scale always says something different.

Workout A
Initial weights/Current weights:

Squat: 50#/70#*
Push up: 60 deg/bench height
Seated Row: 40#/85#
Step Up: BW/BW**
Prone Jackknife: 8/19

*Squats have taken me a long time to figure out. I stayed at 50# for several workouts trying to figure out how to stop dropping my torso as I lowered. Now I'm eyeballing a spot on the wall about 10-12 feet high and it's working. My balance is much better and I'm able to get that "drive down with your heels" feeling.

**I hate these. I've gone back and forth between stepping up onto a bench with 20# DB, knowing that I was "cheating" a bit, to trying step downs with BW only, not letting my trailing foot plant on the ground at all, a la pistol squats. I hate these.


Workout B

Deadlift: 65#/100# (F__ yeah!!)
Shoulder Press: 12#DB/15#DB*
Lat Pull Down: 55#/85#
Lunge: BW/15#DB**
Crunches: BW/10#plate

*My left shoulder is still screwed up from a pinched nerve last year. I can feel how much it has strengthened, but it's tender still.

**It seems like only yesterday that I hit the puke zone in workout 1 on these.


Current workout:

Last night was workout 7B for me and it was the first time that I've crapped out on a workout. I felt strong as heck on the deadlifts, even emitted a girly grunt on the last rep with 100#. But then I got to the lunges and felt a pain under my right kneecap when stepping forward with that leg. Went to BW only, and the pain was still there. crap. I wonder if it's from whacking my kneecap with the bar on deadlifts, I do have a lovely bruise there...

Two more workouts and my rest begins on Monday. I'm skipping the AMRAP because I know that I need a rest _now_ but want to complete the last two workouts.