weight: 196.8
Warmup Squats: 45x5, 115x2
1A Squats: 185x15, 185x15
1B Static BB Lunges: 115x15, 115x15
2A DB Rows (out): 45x15, 45x15
2B Pushups: 0x40, 0x52
Crunches: 37.5x20, 37.5x20
Every so often, I will kneel down on one knee and then when I stand back up, the knee is wonked out. I did it again the night of my last workout. I was cleaning out a litter box and when I stood up, my knee hurt. It's weird because it might not actually be the knee. It might be the calf where one of the calf muscles attaches somewhere in the back of the knee. But my knees have both been feeling strained recently and I've been wondering if the intervals have been messing with them. I've been limping around the past couple of days.
I went into this workout wondering if I was going to be able to squat at all. The first warmup squats felt like hell but I went ahead and tried the 115's and they actually felt semi-OK. So I went ahead with them.
I didn't increase the weight on the lunges because I was worried about the knees.
The rows were hard not because of the weight of the dumbell but because my legs were shaky from the first superset.
On the second set of pushups, I got to 40 and thought, what the hell, let's see how far we can go. And I was going fine, I didn't slow down at all, but when I got to 52, I just quit. That's embarrasing because that's not a physical failure but a mental failure. I know I had a lot more reps in me if I had just put my mind to it.
I was happy when the crunches were done.
But I stopped there. I didn't do the intervals. I'm going to give them a shot tomorrow and see how they feel with my knees.
My knee actually feels a little better tonight but it's still tight.
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