Log 2010/10/26

Weightlifting Class:

     Cable Row (Straight Bar, horizontal grip): 1x5 with 120lbs
                                                                     1x5 with 140lbs
                                                                     5x5 with 150lbs
     Lat Pulldown: 1x6 with 120lbs
                           1x6 with 140lbs
                           4x6 with 150lbs
     Cable Row (Close Grip; Vertical): 4x5 with 120lbs
     Hammer Curls: 1x10 with 25lb dumbbells for each arm

In other news, I've been feeling slightly sick lately.

Log 2010/10/25

Racquetball class:

Do to being out of the tournament, there was not a chance for me to play racquetball today.  So, I lifted weights during class instead.

     Rack Pulls: 1x8 with 135lbs
     Deadlift: 1x5 with 135lbs
                   4x5 with 185lbs

Log - 2010/10/21

Weightlifting Class:

     Leg Press: 1x8 with 90lbs
                      1x8 with 180lbs
                      4x8 with 270 lbs
     Reverse Hyper: 5x5 with 50lbs
     Lunges: 2x10 per leg with 30lb dumbbells in each hand.

Log - 2010/10/20

Racquetball class:

Played about 20 minutes, to finish up the game started on Friday.  I lost, but had a good time, and got a good 20 minutes of sprinting in.

After that, there wasn't anything for me to do in class, so I went upstairs to lift:

     Bench Press: 3x8 with 135lbs for speed

     Seated overhead press: 1x10 with 30lb dumbbells, 2x5 with 40lb dumbbells

     Incline Press: 2x5 with 40lb dumbbells

     Incline Press (with less steep incline): 2x5 with 40lb dumbbells

     Bench Press: 2x5 with 40lb dumbbells

     Everything after the initial bench press was done as one big superset, with minimal rest between sets.

Log - 2010/10/18 - 2010/10/19

Monday:

Racquetball class, no play time.

No time to make it into the gym outside of class.

Tuesday:

Weightlifting:

The gym bought a Reverse Hyper machine, made by Westside Barbell.  I've always wanted to try one of these, so I tried it today.  It is very difficult, and will take a lot of getting used to, but I love it.

     Reverse Hyper: 5x5 with 50lbs, held at top for as long as possible on each rep
     Dips: 4x5 bodyweight

Log - 2010/10/13 - 2010/10/14

Wednesday:

Racquetball class: Continued in-class tournament by playing one game.  Lasted about 30 minutes, and we didn't finish.

Thursday:

Weightlifting:

     Pull-ups: 3x1 with bodyweight
     Pull-ups (eccentrics) : 4x3 with bodyweight (jumped to top, and lowered self slowly for each rep)
     Cable Row: 4x6 with 80 lbs
     Hammer curls: 8x3 with 30 lb dumbbells
     Face pulls: 10x3 with 30 lbs (on cable row machine)

Log - 2010/10/11 - 2010/10/12

Monday (10/11/2010)

-Racquetball class, played for about 45 minutes, ended up running around much more than in most games.  Very winded by the end of it.

Tuesday (10/12/2010)

- Weightlifting class
    - Dips: 6x4 with bodyweight
    - Bench press: 3x8 with 135lbs
    - Dumbbell flyes: 3x8 with 30lb dumbbells

Log - 2010/10/04 - 2010/10/08

Due to the amount of work I had to do for school, I didn't have much time to get workouts in this week, and the only time I spent at the gym was for my classes.  Even this didn't really work out as planned though.

Monday:

Racquetball class.  Showed up early and ended up playing for about 1hr15min

Tuesday:

Weightlifting class.  We had a lecture, which took up the entire time, then  had to get to my other classes.

Wednesday:

Racquetball again.  Played for about 45 minutes.

Thursday:

Weightlifting.  Once more we didn't have time to do any actual lifting.  We had a lecture, followed by a test.

Friday:

No phys. ed. classes, no time to get a workout in.

Since this isn't a game weekend, maybe I can get something done this weekend.

Log - 2010/10/04

Today I wasn't able to get a second workout in at the gym, so I just did it here at the house.

This morning:

Racquetball class, consisted of about 30 minutes of playing, since the lectures at the beginning were longer than normal.

This afternoon/evening

Planks: 4 for 2 minutes each
Push-Ups: 50 (total)

Log - 2010/10/01

First off, I've felt really pumped and energetic all day.  This feeling needs to continue.

This morning, after my first (and only) [real] class of the day, I went to the gym to get my daily dose of racquetball practice in.  I brought my headphones and phone with me today, and listened to Pandora the whole time, and it made the 45 minutes go by extremely fast, I thought I had only been played for about 15, even though I was so exhausted.

I found that I was a lot more consistent with my playing today, which is good.  Consistency has always been my problem in tennis, and it's been a problem in racquetball as well.  This daily practice seems to be helping a lot.

After my lab, I went back to the gym to get some lifting in.  Since I didn't feel that yesterday's lifting really did much for me (really, I was just pumped and wanted to train lower body again), I did basically the same workout.

Squats: 5x5 with 135lbs (focusing on really pushing out of the hole, going for speed on each lift, really got my heart pumping)

Rack Pulls: 3x5 with 225lbs

Rack Pulls: 1x8 with225lbs (used straps for this one, my hands were tired. The straps allowed me to really pull with all I had and get a few more reps out)

Excited to see what next week holds for my training.