Stage 1 2A. I'm taking a queue from someone else I saw on here who highlights all the things for the day that are new... new weights, etc.
Squats 2/15 30lbs
I really do enjoy doing squats. I'm doing quite a bit less than I was before all hell broke loose with sleep & the baby but I'm pretty happy with it, just focusing on good form and squatting down deep until the backs of my thighs hit my calves.
Pushups - 2/15
Pushups I'm pretty meh on mainly just because I can't do them on the floor yet. I was doing them on the 4th stair before but there's nothing in the gym that's close (plus I was doing sets of 10, now it's sets of 15) so I'm doing them right now on the lowest setting of the benchpress bar. It's roughly a 50 degree angle. I'll probably move to the bench eventually. Maybe next workout since there won't be quite as many reps. This time it went pretty good, I felt good but doing the last couple reps was definitely an effort.
Seated row - 1/15 20lbs, 1/9 20lbs
1/6 30lbs
I like these... except the whole 20lbs too little, 30lbs too much deal. I'd planned on going from 20 to 30 for the second set regardless, but forgot until the 9th rep, so then I switched it and did the last 6 reps for 30 lbs. Next time I'll bump it up to 30 for all of them.
Step-ups - 1/15 @ 10lbs,
1/15 @15 lbs
These went pretty well. I'll start at 15lbs next time. I am not quite doing them on the bench, but there's a step thingy that's on the back of the military press machine that's about 6 inches lower than the actual bench. I don't trust my balance on the step just yet.
Prone jackknife... again, there was a class blocking me from using the swiss ball. I did them on the bench which was pretty difficult, probably harder than doing on the swiss ball for me. I'll try and figure out if there's a way I can get one before they start but I never seem to get the timing right.
Today's workout went really well. I got up earlier so I had all my lunch and food for the day packed before the kids even got up. I even cooked up a couple eggs to have with toast for breakfast which I think really helped with my energy levels. Normally I just have grape nuts or toast.
The nice thing is that the workout was great but didn't leave me quite as wobbly after I was done. I work out right before I have to go to work and I drive a big old stickshift truck and the first couple workouts were fun afterwards when I was trying to jam down the clutch with my wobbly legs! Either I'm getting more used to it again, or the extra food for breakfast helped, or both. Looking forward to Friday's workout before my holiday weekend.
And the other chuckle was the other guy in the weight room - our gym has 2 weight rooms that are connected with a doorway and he was in the other one... but he was grunting so loudly it sounded like a wild animal even in the other room. Of course, mostly doing curls and arm workouts, pretty much the entire time I was there.
Then hubby came in (he had to do an errand) and started doing deadlifts
