mwz: Day 48

Today, I spun and lifted. Here are my notes:

Cycling:

• The spin class went for an hour but she warned us before class so that was okay.
• Now that my running shoes are broken in, I've stopped wearing them to spin class. Instead, I'm wearing my old running shows. Now, I can't believe that I used to run in those. They're big and clunky. The only problem I have with them in spin class is that there is about a half inch of room in the toe. This means that I can't get my foot into the pedal cage thing as far and my foot doesn't feel securely on the pedal. That's kind of a pain.

Lifting:

• I was doing my work on the lat machine and it was going really easily. I thought that I had made a lot of improvement. Unfortunately, I soon discovered that in the past, I've been reading the weight wrong. There are two 5 lb weights that can be added on top of the main plates (to allow the machine to be set to any weight in 5 lb increments). I had assumed that those weights were factored into the weight markings on the plates but apparently not. Today, the 5 lb weights were off and it made a huge difference. The take home is that I'm pretty sure that the weights that I've been reporting on the lat machine are all probably 5-10 lbs off.
• aside from my lat debacle, I think I am going to start upping some of my exercises because some of them are starting to get easier.
• I added Knee / Hip Raise On Parallel Bars because it looked fun but I really need to figure out something that will work my hamstring.
  

Here is what I lifted this week:

Lying Dumbbell Tricep Extension: 10 lbs each hand (EH). 10x4
Dumbbell Flyers: 10 lbs EH 10x4

Straight Arm Pulldown (lat machine): 25 lbs 20x3
Wide-Grip Pulldowns Behind the Neck (lat machine): 70 lbs 20x3

Leg Extensions: 70 lbs 20x3
Knee / Hip Raise On Parallel Bars: 20x3

Side Lateral Raise: 10lbs EH 10x3
Dumbbell Bicept Curl (but sitting): 20 lbs EH 10x3
Seated Dumbbell Palms-up Wrist curl: 15 lbs EH 10x3

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