Old-School Iron

I’ll update on the entire week in one go this time.

Found some intresting stuff at our friendly neighborhood health store; whey powder with salmiak taste! Yummmmmmmy! Oh yes, and also blueberry. Got both as well as a jar of glutamine. Therefore, I also started with postworkout creatine and glutamine added to the shake. Used to work decently.

I also went to a local discount store (literally so named in finnish: Tarjoustalo), and bought me some plates. The basement gym here just got a whole lot better equipped. I got two pairs of 10kg /22 lb plates for 24,90 a pair and a pair of 5 kg / 11 lb plates for 12,90 a pair. I thought that sounded cheap enough. I loaded the plates into shopping cart, which caused the entire thing to sway up and down a bit… Nervously I started to push the cart for fear of breaking it until I decided it wasn’t my fault per se if it broke, and that the bouncing lever action was a built-in feature of this particualr model of cart. Their carts should be able to handle anything they sell. The lady at cashier looked at what I was buing and went: oh no… Apparently, she should buy some herself and do some lifting.

Yesterday, when I carried them finally into the basement (they’d been in the trunk of my car for a week or so), I found that walking with a 10kg plate per hand from the parking lot to the basement is actually quite tough… And they also redefined the term “cold iron” since temperature was -20 degrees celsius.

Anyhow, the week’s first workout took place in the comfort of my very own staircase again. The only problem is I can’t get clips taken from these workouts, because the stairs are steep enough to not allow a very wide angle, and I figured that a clip that only shows half the exercise isn’t worth much…
RB is short for rubber band. Clever, yes? The time is marked in brackets for each set in seconds.

A historic occasion this is. First time I blog a “60sec workout”.

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Here’s the workout: 2.2.2006, thursday. Chest, traps and neck

RB Bench Press 2 sets: 7 (70s) / 7 (71s) Rb’s: 4 (max)
RB Incline Bench Press 2 sets: 7 (71) / 7 (71) Rb’s: 4 (max)
RB Flyes 2 sets: 7 (70) / 7 (70) Rb’s: 4 (max)

RB Shrugs 2 sets: 7 (70) / 7 (70) Rb’s: 4 (max)
Regular neck routine, 10 reps each direction, regular speed.

Total time: 23 minutes
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This was a decent workout. Light, yes, but pretty good. Getting to know slow again.

-Second (and alas, last) workout of the week: 4.2.2006, Saturday: Back and delts

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Here’s the workout, again in the stairs:

RB One-handed Pull-Downs 3 sets: 6 (60) / 6 (60) / 6 (60) Rb’s: 4
Rb One-handed Seated Rows 3 sets: 6 (60) / 6 (60) / 6 (60) Rb’s: 4

RB Rear Laterals 3 sets: 6 (61) / 6 (60)* / 6 (60)* Rb’s: 1
RB Side Laterals 4 sets: 6 (60)* / 6 (60)* / 6 (60)* / 6 (60)* Rb’s: 1

Total Time: 46 minutes
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Those one-handed pull-downs were excellent!! The * denotes a set where the burn has been markedly higher than in the other sets. Getting that blowtorch feeling I was talking about in this year’s first post…

In the next episode, the first from the basement gym, there will be a clip. Editing needs to be done, but as a teaser (or repellent) : there’s a shot of the entire um, “gym”.

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