8.19.2010

12W12S2P: The One With The Brain Damage

I've totally gone full-tilt-boogie-off-the-rails with this current obsession with my "flappy chicken arms," and this time I mean it. I've done wall push-ups and some very sad little basic crunches for the last three days in a row, and last night after dinner I was researching triceps exercises on the Internet. I think my arms are going to fall off, no lie, and a whole bunch of things have been snapping, crackling, and popping when I get out of bed in the morning.

My chiropractor is going to kill me.

Anyway ... much like writing down what I was eating in the beginning helped to keep me honest -- and seriously, this kind of journaling is SO HELPFUL for this kind of thing -- I imagine that an exercise journal will also help, so here is a list of what I have done since Monday. This might be the last one of these you get, too, because have I mentioned that I think my arms are going to fall off?
  • Monday: 60 wall push-ups (6x sets of 10 with different inclines and hands in different positions), 30 standard ab crunches (with terrible form), 20-count of "reverse crunch pose" (where I lay in a yoga-type pose with my gut sucked in and my knees tucked into my chest -- not sure what I think this will do, but I sure feel something in my lower abs)
  • Tuesday: 60 wall push-ups (4x sets of 15 with different inclines and hands in different positions), 30 standard ab crunches (still terrible form, but I am working on it), 30 "crossover" crunches (where I aim opposite elbows at opposite knees), 30-count of "reverse crunch pose," 30-count of this thing I used to do in swimming where I keep my feet 6 inches off the floor and make a small backstroke kicking motion (I think we called it "six inches," so that's what I'll call it from now on)
  • Wednesday: 60 wall push-ups (4x sets of 15), 30 standard crunches, 30 cross-crunches, 40-count of reverse crunch pose, 40-count of six inches, 20x each side of 4 different arm exercises that I got from my sister (using soup cans for weights)
Right now I am not focusing on leg or back exercises too much, because I can live with thunder thighs but apparently arm flab gives me the heebie-jeebies. Hopefully I will be adding some more core exercises soon; I have requested a bunch of shows from FitTV but the TiVo hasn't picked them up yet. And don't even get me started on the lack of cardio -- baby steps, k?

Any more suggestions, let me know.

1 comment:

  1. i forgot to get the list from 8 minute arms for you, so i'll get it tonight (i hope).

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