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sarahmichelef) wrote2007-10-04 11:28 am
sarahmichelef) wrote2007-10-04 11:28 am
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The good pain...
Over the past week I've increased my resistance by 5 pounds on almost all of my exercises (chest press, row, lat pull, abs (where I'm working with almost half my body weight!), hip abductors & adductors). This means that my back & shoulders are deliciously sore today - not enough to actually bug me, but enough to remind me that I have been doing good work in the lifting department.
Here's a question for the weight-lifty folks out there... right now I'm doing my bicep curls with 15 pounds and my tricep extensions with 20 (3 sets of 15). I could PROBABLY go up to 25 on the extensions, but I don't think I could go up to 20 on the curls. But my biceps are also getting worked on the row and the lat pulls (at least according to how I feel and the diagrams on the machines). Would it be a bad idea to have a 10 pound differential between my biceps and my triceps? (I'm planning to ask Joseph the Excessively Cheerful Trainer this same question next time I see him.)
Oh, and my engagement ring is too big. Keeps spinning around and stabbing me in the pinky. Woe is me, I know. ;^)
Here's a question for the weight-lifty folks out there... right now I'm doing my bicep curls with 15 pounds and my tricep extensions with 20 (3 sets of 15). I could PROBABLY go up to 25 on the extensions, but I don't think I could go up to 20 on the curls. But my biceps are also getting worked on the row and the lat pulls (at least according to how I feel and the diagrams on the machines). Would it be a bad idea to have a 10 pound differential between my biceps and my triceps? (I'm planning to ask Joseph the Excessively Cheerful Trainer this same question next time I see him.)
Oh, and my engagement ring is too big. Keeps spinning around and stabbing me in the pinky. Woe is me, I know. ;^)
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I might ditch both lifts, but I would substitute something that's going to strictly work the muscles alone, not free weights. For biceps, maybe preacher-bench curls or something like that.