Another day with the trainer...
Warmup 1 mile at 2% 6mph - HR stayed really low 150ish
Leg Day:
Stairs with 40lbs of weights: He had me go up and down the stairwell 15 or 20 times. I had 20lbs in my hands. Last time we did this I had much lower weight and doing the steps two at a time hurt my hamstring. Today no pain at all. It really was easy actually. I did have to stretch to hold the 40lbs but my legs did super well.
Once this was done we did squats. He made me wear the weight belt just so that I got used to how tight it was and how it felt on me. He said that I didn't have to wear it all the time but I needed to learn how to put it on and how to lift with it pressing against me. To tell the truth the first couple of sets I wanted to puke with it.
1x20 bw (we worked on my form a lot here)
1x15 65lb (again worked on form)
1x12 85lb
2x10
110lb (yipee finally I busted into triple digets! I didn't feel like it was too hard either. I have a long while to go.
He was really happy with how deep I was going with these and I have managed to work through my previous imbalance.
Single Leg Squats
This one was interesting. I cannot recall how many of these I did but it went very slowly. This exercise hits my hamstring tendon right where it was injured. So we worked it until I could not handle the pain anymore. It was impreitive that we exercise this obvious weakness so alas I have some more rehab to do before I am 100% better. I am okay with this and very grateful that I have a person to help me with this.
On food news the trainer who is a body builder and has a bunch of competitve builders as clients, met me as I came into the door. He asked me how the gain was going and I told him that I am eating 2300 kcals a day now but that my metabolism seems to be moving upwards. He told me I need to stop screwing around and get the kcals up to 3k or more a day. He said I can do it with Myoplex delux or N-Large type of product. He showed me a pic of him back in the day and it was incredible. He said he was doing 8K a day. I asked him if he "juiced" and he said that he did.
Is this really someone I want to be taking advice from?
My trainer also suggested that I start looking at massive gainers since I keep hitting walls with eating. I am already doing 3 or more protein drinks a day and 2300 kcals makes me fill so full even so. Anyway... I guess I will go at least seek these out. If I can drink 1K perhaps this will work.
For my homework I was instructed to examine pictures of buliders (winners and loosers) and to look at my own body and to give him an analysis of what areas I think I need to work on. I asked him if it wasn't the case that he was supposed to do that for me and he laughed and said he has already done it but I need to go through this exercise as a learning experience. I am not really interested in body builder per say but I guess that is sort of what we are doing in our contest isn't it?
Finally he gave me my workout for Saturday (it looks fun) and told me I was to take Friday and Sunday as Rest days. He said I could do a light run on Sunday if I wanted to but my muscles need rest. He also told me I could cheat for SuperBowl party if I wanted to.
