Is this respectable?

[Laurie]

Squats: 12 reps at 235lbs (can do 15 reps but after that....it gets VERY heavy...but do not have a spotter to help just in case. No one, in my gym class, lifts near this much)

Leg press: 4 x 15 at 246

Leg extension: 4 x 10 at 70

Bicep sulpinating: 4 x 8 reps at 25lbs DBL

Seated rows: 4 x 8 reps at 90

Bentover Barbell Rows: 4 x 10 reps at 110

Bench Press: 4 x 6-8 reps at 125.....did one at 135 a couple of times.

Bench Press DBL: 4 x 8-10 at 35

Tricep overhead (held by both): 4 x 6-8 at 35

Lat pulldowns: 4 x 10 at 100lbs

This is after 10 months of lifting. I am 51, 5' 6" and now weigh 195lbs (started out at 235). I do try to keep my protein intake up...but trying to take a daily 195 grams is not easy. Especially as hot as it is now in my part of Arizona. I do keep a low carb diet and keep most of the fats down too.

The poundages have been consistant for the past two months. I lift heavier than anyone in my class and stay with a rotation with, at least, a minute inbetween sets. Class is three days aweek (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) for an hour to 90 minutes. I generally work out for a hour and use the other for stretching before and after.

I have switched around some days and done different versions but the ones listed are the most consistant. I do keep a journal. Having learned about an old rotator cuff tear (Sulpinator in the Left shoulder) some exercises, like the Incline, flyes and shoulder exercises were cut out for the time being on orders from my orthopedic doctor. Before stopping, I did do 30lb flyes and 95 Inclines....both at 4 sets of 10. Still occasionally do them, though, but not as many reps and only at a couple of sets. No shoulder exercises at all.

The instructor is pleased with my losing the weight and lifting progress but I am asking for your opinions too.

[sweetbecky]

VERY RESPECTABLE!
I respect anyone who tries to better themselves anyway, but you are lifting some serious weight! Way to go! :)

[ShaneG85]

Originally posted by sweetbecky
VERY RESPECTABLE!
I respect anyone who tries to better themselves anyway, but you are lifting some serious weight! Way to go! :)

I don't mean to get this thread off topic, but i have seen you a lot around the forums. I was wondering if you had any pics.

Shane

[sweetbecky]

A pm would have been more appropriate ;)
There's a link on my profile to a slideshow. If it doesn't work it means you need to update your macromedia flash.

[TrishB]

Laurie....you are doing fantastic lifiting that amt of weight.
Are you doing "full body" on mon, tues, and thurs?

[Laurie]

Sometimes on alternative days (Mondays/Thursdays or Tuesdays/Thursdays) It depends if I go through my circuit quickly or not. If I have the time....then I will include more.

My original workout schedule is like this (as handed out by my original instructor, a former male bodybuilder):

Monday
Bench Press
Flies
Pec Dec
Curls
Tri cep Pushdowns
Overhead Extensions

Tuesday
Leg Presses
Leg curls
Leg Extensions
Lunges
Calf Presses

Thursday
Pull downs to chest
Pull downs behind head
Bent over DBL rows
Upright Rows
Should Press
Laterals

Crunches every day

Most of the presses were done on machines during the first semester.

Laterals I had problems with at first...too much pain and my instructor (a former male bodybuilder) said I should not do them then. No injury was worth it. I was able to do Machine shoulder presses but I still found my right doing most of the work...I just figured it being stronger. Did better in building up my left with Dbls. But the left shoulder was still staying sore longer. Anyway.....I did find out and have cut out those for the time being. Upright rows, I can do...but sometimes forget to do them. Since I was doing "flies" at the time.....just never did the Pec Decs.

As for ABs.....I use the Nautilous Machine and at 110. But not everyday. I know they are there but my stomach is still too big for anything to show, at the moment.

By the second semester, a change of instructors and her set of workouts was different. However, I still kept pretty much to the old one as it targeted the upper body for the most part. By that time, I had switched to freeweights and included the squat from her list.

As for photos. I did not have any taken in the first semester and only at the beginning of my second and its end. Had one taken at the beginning of the Summer semester and will have one done at the end of it.