Positve Week Ending

Finally had a good lift today to end the week on a good note.

Meathead rotation:

Ab warm up.

BB standing push press- 3 sets of 6 working up to 115 lbs

Deadlift- 3 sets of 8 working up to 215 lbs for the last set

BB lunges- 3 sets of 6 on each leg working up to 145 lbs

BB front squats- 3 sets of 6 working up to 185 lbs

NG chinups- 2 sets of 8, to failure on the 3rd (10 for me)

Hamstring kneeling let-downs- 3 sets of 8

Dynamax standing ball (12lbs) slams- 3 sets of 10

Ended with one set of 10 BB curls and one set of bench (8 reps of 135 lbs) which I was much more pleased with compared to Wednesday's results.

After the lift I grabbed my pre-packed recovery meal and ran over to the Freeman center to watch Kalee in her meet. She pole vaulted at 9' 4" today (best on the the CNU team) and ran 30 sec. flat in her leg of the 4X200 (which her team came 2nd in) All in all a very good day of activity to round off a solid third week back at school.

Study Break

Taking a study break now and figured it would be a good time to write up on today's fitness activities.

Had a distance workout with Kalee this afternoon.

I didn't want to run outside, she didn't want to run on the treadmill. Compromise = indoor track.

We are very fortunate here at CNU to have top tier facilities with a complete indoor track and field house. Kalee's entire track meet last weekend, I forgot to mention, was completely indoors in our amazing Freeman Center here on campus. This included hurdle races, pole vaulting, distance relays, high jump, long jump, etc. which explains why so many top schools come here to compete with us (last weekend alone included NC State, VCU, William and Mary, VA Wesleyan, Seton Hill, Virginia State, and NC Central just to name a few).

We arrived at the track to find the women's basketball team using it for warm up drills. So we went into the fitness pavilion for a warmup and our first mile on the treadmill. We ended up racing the last half mile on the treadmill which was fun...I failed to win after giving myself too much of a lackadaisical start at the beginning and ran out of distance to catch up! After that we stretched and hit the track for our second mile. Then ended with stretching and another good ab rotation.

Legs very sore after heavy lifting from Wednesday, however this is good prep for training at home in the month to come. Back to studying now...one more exam at 8am tomorrow and then done for the semester!