Week seven, Workout #19

Week seven will prove to be an interesting week. Not only am I still recovering from a bit of an achillies issue but this week we are beginning to focus on weights; dumbbells and kettle bells.

We continued to incorporate more movements during our warm up; not back to the pre injury level but close. After our warm up we broke out the weights; two 25lbs dumbbells. We started with squats with an over head press and then moved to single leg split squats and wrapped up that set with single dumbbell wide leg squats. From there we moved to a wall and while holding one dumbbell in front and between my legs we did more squats. The point of doing it right in front of the wall was to ensure I went straight up and down. If I leaned forward, I'd hit the wall..I'm thinking that is not good. Thereafter we moved to the stadium seating and work on rows. Between rows I'd climb stairs while holding both dumbbells. We then moved to bench press and bent rows. We finished our work there with curls and dips. To wrap up the day we moved to the field and did core work. A combo of elbow planks and push up planks in addition to side planks with crunches and I was done!

A good day all said, I worked hard and I can tell the 50lbs has had an effect as I am a bit sore today. In addition to being sore, I was very hungry most of the day. Not in a craving way for pizza and beer although that sounds good but more so just plain hungry. I assume its due to the additional workout load but will ask Anthony to confirm.

Until then.

T