First Workout Log in a While

Wednesday (9/15/2010)

Had an hour of racquetball today.  Shoulder started to act up halfway through class, took it easy for a few minutes and was able to finish without any problems.

Also walked a mile to and a mile from lunch, in addition to other walking done throughout the course of my day.

Thursday (9/16/2010)

First class of the day was weightlifting.  I don't really have a program I'm sticking to right now, so I'm just going with what he says we're going to focus on in class, even though we don't have to do so.  Today's focus was "shoulders."

I start with a couple warm-up sets of strict military presses.

1x10 with the bar (45lbs.)
1x10 with 65lbs.

Then I proceeded to do 5 working sets:

5x6 with 85lbs.

After this I moved on to front raises.  Due to an old shoulder injury, certain movements cause me some discomfort, this movement is one of them, so I went very light.

2x8 with 15lb. dumbbells (this is for each arm)

Even though I thought I was going fairly light, I had a little pain in my shoulder after the front raises.  I had expected it to happen, but it wasn't unbearable.  My plan is to slowly ease back into these movements that have caused me pain since I hurt my shoulder, so I can try to regain some of the mobility in these areas that it is lacking in.

Lastly, I did facepulls with a rope handle on the cable row machine.

3x8 with 50lbs.

My shoulder felt much better after this, and didn't bother me at all the rest of the day.