Breaking the 272 barrier

[avram]

Jadies and lentilmen, I am now at the lowest weight of my adult life: 271 pounds. (I don’t count the times in summer 2000 when the gym scale said I weighed as little as 270 — that scale turned out to be broken.)

• Weight: 271
• Dumbbell squats:
  • 15 reps with pair of 18-lb weights.
  • 15 reps with pair of 18-lb weights.
  • 15 reps with pair of 21-lb weights, 3 more pounds than last time.
  • Standing quad stretch after each set.
• Dumbbell straight-back straight-leg deadlift:
  • 15 reps with pair of 21-lb weights.
  • 15 reps with pair of 21-lb weights.
  • 15 reps with pair of 21-lb weights.
  • Hamstring stretch after each set.
• Single-legged calf raise:
  • 20 reps with 12-lb weight, 3 more pounds than last time.
  • 20 reps with 12-lb weight.
  • Step straight-leg calf stretch after each set.
• Ab crunches:
  • 3 sets of 20 reps of Hot Point crunches.
  • 2 sets of 20 reps of penguin crunches.

I’m smackin’ myself for not having started this months ago. Well, a month ago, since the weather was too cold for outdoors excercising all winter and well into spring. Actually, I did just finish my third week on Heavyhands, which is most of a month. But it’s just been one week doing both that and the weights, every day.

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Don't fret too much if you slide back up, and best of luck in your pursuit of sliding down more. :) I need to get me a new scale. My old one died for reasons mysterious (I think it got water in it?). I'm curious to see if all the increased walking and dancing I've been doing has made any kind of a difference weight wise.