01.08.10

Circuit training in the weight room

Posted in Strength Training at 6:15 am by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

My training schedule calls for  22 miles tomorrow, so I want to take it easy from running and spinning today and change my workout to weight training.

I covered both upper body and lower body, moving from machine to machine repeating and alternating sets. I worked on shoulders, tricepts, bicepts, upper back, chest.  I also worked on calves, quads and hamtrings.  I then moved over to stretching area and use both large exercise ball and medicine ball to do crunches.

It didn’t sweat like I normally do when I do cardio, I am a cardio junky so it feels kind of wierd.  But my muscles feels good and tight afterwards.  This is good.

Workout:

  • Type: Strength Training
  • Date: 01/08/2010
  • Time: 06:15:00
  • Total Time: 1:00:00.00
  • Calories: 444

02.07.09

Resistance training class.

Posted in Strength Training at 8:15 am by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

The instructor is HARD CORE!!! We used resistance band, hand weights, jump rope, medicine ball. None stop, heart pumping, moving from one excercise to the next. We even move to the boxing studio and got on our knees to kick the boxing bag while on all three. I sweat like a pig (or is it dog?) Good alternative workout from the Saturday runs I usually do.

Great workout!

Workout:

  • Type: Strength Training
  • Date: 02/07/2009
  • Time: 08:15:00
  • Total Time: 1:00:00.00
  • Calories: 442

01.10.09

About my weight training session…

Posted in Run, Strength Training at 8:48 pm by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

So here it is, the weight training session was good. But… having not done much lifting recently, I was SORE…like no body’s business!!! Didn’t mind at all about upper body, but since I sneaked in a few legs sets, I was seriously paying for it on Friday. I was hoping that the soreness would go away by Saturday since the lifting session happened Thursday early morning. Friday night came and went, I was more sore and stiff than beginning of the day.  

I know it would be too much to bear on Saturday’s 24 miles run if I don’t take some meds to take the edge off of the soreness.  So I took ibporphine before I went to bed and before I left for my training run on Saturday at 5:30am.  

Lesson learnt, weight training is good, but life hard right before the longest training run is NOT a good idea.  :)

01.08.09

Focusing on Upper Body today.

Posted in Strength Training at 6:45 am by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

I haven’t really hit the weight room for any significant amount of time for a while now.  I have been so focused on my marathon training, that running takes over anything else.  I know full well that running alone is not enough for a well-rounded workout.

I am a cardio junkie, running, spinning is where I feel the most at ease doing but I also know that if I invest a little time in the weight room, it will improve my physics a great deal.  I am blessed with the muscular gene where a little effort goes a long way, muscles tend to show up a lot faster on my body.

I worked systematically from one machine to the next, covering biceps, triceps, deltoids, upper back, and abs; doing 12 reps a set for three sets, rotating through the routine.  Avoiding lower body machines because I have to rest up for my 24 mile run this Saturday.  Of course, at the end, I couldn’t help myself and so I did leg presses.

Good workout!

Workout:

  • Type: Strength Training
  • Date: 01/08/2009
  • Time: 06:45:00
  • Total Time: 00:50:00.00
  • Calories: 368

12.27.08

ABC - Ab, Booty, Cardio class in the gym.

Posted in Strength Training at 8:15 am by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

We utilized jump rope, resistant band, exercise ball, hand weights and it was 75 minutes of non-stop, heart-pumping actions.  Great class, boy, am I going to be sore tomorrow.  :)

Workout:

  • Type: Strength Training
  • Date: 12/27/2008
  • Time: 08:15:00
  • Total Time: 1:25:00.00
  • Calories: 623

09.10.08

Spinning class in the gym.

Posted in Cycle, Strength Training at 6:30 am by luluorange · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

After class, we moved to the aroebic studio for a 15 minute AB work with medicine ball. A good combination of engaging different muscles in a span of an hour.

Good work today.

Workout:

  • Type: Cycle
  • Date: 09/10/2008
  • Time: 06:30:00
  • Total Time: 00:45:00.00