Eighty Four

11/06/13
Scientific warmup
50X43.2 deadlifts-focus on form, eyes forward, feet shoulder width apart, lower back tight and unrounded, shoulders unhunched, hip drive and glute activation.
50 pushups
Stretching cooldown

After my warmup I decided to do some squats and did 10 reps of 61.2 followed by four reps of 84. After the deadlifts I did another ten of 61.2 and two of 84. I can't wait to hit 100 in my squats and deadlifts. I found that my lower back was the limiting factor for the deadlifts, although my forearms were pretty maxed out as well. I need to increase the muscular endurance of my lower back. The pushups felt good and I had a lot less trouble than last time, I really struggled with the last four.

In addition to performing one exercise to failure at each workout I will also be choosing an exercise for heavy lifting each time.

As I was driving to the gym a sudden thought struck me: "I want to break two minutes for the 800 this summer". It's time to get serious about my running, Phase one is increasing the length of my runs from 6.5 km to 10-12 km.