The good pain...

[sarahmichelef]

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.  ;^)

Comments

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Your triceps are a bigger muscle group than your biceps and usually stronger. I can do 80 or 90 (bar) on my tricep extensions, but I only do 60 or 70 with my curls.

So no, not a problem.

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

Though I'll add that I mostly don't do extensions anymore. I sometimes do cable press downs (less pully in painful places) but mostly do dips. Mmm dips.

But then I'm kinda biased against almost all the super-targeted lifts.