Linnéa's lifting, yoga and climbing log

[vegan hal]

Done in 30 min and had fun. I think I do my best workouts when I'm in a hurry.

i agree. a nice spirited session always feels best. nice work Linnea!

[Linnéa76]

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Cheers vegan hal!

Body Jam class today. Next week there will be a new choreography, just when I'd got the hang of the old one.

Looking forward to that!

[Linnéa76]

Pretty good strength training session today:

Squat: bar x 10. 55 kg, 3 x 8.

Bench: 35 kg x 5. 42,5 kg, 4 x 6.

Pulldown, wide grip: 50 kg, 5 x 5.

Seated calf raise: 35 kg, 3 x 10.

Hip abduction: 77 kg, 3 x 8.

Lunges, holding 10 kg plate above head: 3 x 8 each side.

Back extension: 10 kg, 2 x 10.

Neck raise: 20.

[Frostfire]

Excellent strength session!

Next week there will be a new choreography, just when I'd got the hang of the old one.

Right? I hate that feeling, at first, then it is fun as you start to learn the new steps

[Linnéa76]

Ashtanga yoga at the gym, 60 min.

Excellent strength session!

Next week there will be a new choreography, just when I'd got the hang of the old one.

Right? I hate that feeling, at first, then it is fun as you start to learn the new steps

Thanks Frosty! Yeah I really like Body Jam, it's a little difficult but not too difficult, just enough so that you forget about being tired!

[Linnéa76]

Body Combat class, new release (50). It was a little tougher than the previous few choreographies have been,
so that was good but I hated the music. Some kind of Linkin Park-version of "Still haven't found what I'm looking for"
during stretching - sacrilege!

[Linnéa76]

Went to the naprapath school today hoping for a nice massage, but when I come
there without any complaints they always find a way to cause me pain...
So, I thought that trigger points was something you can get from exercise kind
of like DOMS and didn't understand until today that you actually aren't supposed
to have them... The therapist wants to keep working on them and gave me a new
shoulder exercise that I'm to do 3 x 10, 4 times/week. Also, she thought that my
"butt is a little weak"! Probably true, the guy I had before her made me do hip abductions...
So I obviously need to do their tedious exercises more often to get results, simple as that.

Went to the gym afterwards:

Power clean + press for warm up: 10 x bar.

Deadlift: 50 kg x 5. 70 kg x 5. 90 kg, 10 x 1.

Press: Bar x 5. 25 kg, 4 x 5.

Dips: 5, 5, 4, 4, 3.

DB bench: 16 kg, 3 x 4.

Squat with bar: Overhead 2 x 10, front and back 2 x 10.

Neck raise: 20.

Shoulder exercise (she called it The Cobra, it starts like the yoga Cobra and then you sort of press the shoulder blades apart): 3 x 10.

I'm thinking I should start doing "prehab" sessions at home on resting days, might be better than doing it after strength training.

[Frostfire]

I'm thinking I should start doing "prehab" sessions at home on resting days, might be better than doing it after strength training.

Prehad sucks after solid training! I tend to fall into that habbit a lot, but it would probably benefit more if done on its own

[Linnéa76]

I'm thinking I should start doing "prehab" sessions at home on resting days, might be better than doing it after strength training.

Prehad sucks after solid training! I tend to fall into that habbit a lot, but it would probably benefit more if done on its own

You're probably right! Doing tiny movements for many reps tends to make me impatient... I've tried pilates and was bored out of my mind!

[baldy]

Also, she thought that my
"butt is a little weak"!

How could she say this? Did she mean in relation to the rest of your body or just weak in general? With your deadlift your butt should be stronger than 90% of people out there!
Did you tell her you can deadlift 115kg?

[Linnéa76]

Also, she thought that my
"butt is a little weak"!

How could she say this? Did she mean in relation to the rest of your body or just weak in general? With your deadlift your butt should be stronger than 90% of people out there!
Did you tell her you can deadlift 115kg?

Yes, me and my butt were a little offended.
But she explained that she meant functional strength in relation to my back's strength.
Apparently I had tensions in lower back muscles that were a sign of an imbalance.
Maybe that's why my squat is worse than my deadlift?

[Speciell]

Also, she thought that my "butt is a little weak"!

My butt got so offended by this it refused to read the rest.

[Linnéa76]

Also, she thought that my "butt is a little weak"!

My butt got so offended by this it refused to read the rest.

Thanks babe! We appreciate the support.

Short lifting session today:

Warm up: Clean and press with bar x 10.

Squat: 60 kg x 5. 65 kg, 3 x 5. 60 kg x 5.

Chins in between squat sets: 5, 4, 3, 2, 2.

Hip abduction: 77 kg, 3 x 8.

Bench press: Bar x 10. 40 kg x 5. 42,5 kg x 4, 3, 3.

[Linnéa76]

Power yoga class today: 60 min of ashtanga.

[Linnéa76]

So I tried bikram yoga today! It was quite interesting. I enjoyed the heated room to begin with, but after
a while it got strenuous to inhale the warm and damp air. A class is 90 min and it's all quite standardized,
always the same poses in the same order and the teacher doesn't demonstrate the poses but shouts instructions
instead. Pretty much zero spirituality, just excercise. But it felt effective and you could probably loose weight doing
bikram, in fact I suspect there were a lot of "toners" in the class. In conclusion, it's not something I'll continue doing
but I bought a 10-day trial so this week will be bikram boot camp.