Leg Day 


Must remember to stretch...... 

I used to have me some killer legs. Back when I played rugby I reached a max squat weight of 315 for 6 reps (I had to have someone standing behind me in case I crumbled under all the weight (and ok you have to pick someone REAL cute to stand behind you at that point too!)). After the aidsride in 01, I lowered my working squat weight and slowly alternated in machines cause I hated doing squats all of a sudden - I couldn't get back up to a working weight of 225 for more than 2 sets and only like 8 reps each set. So I moved to machines, in order to preserve my ego.

So I started doin real squats again today _ i probably haven't done real squats in like a year.

Just one problem - the second rep into the second set _OUCH. For some reason my hamstring started to feel like it was gonna SNAP. So I racked the bar - put the weights away and moved on to leg press. Damn that hurt.

Now I must admit that I am not one to stretch before lifting. I usually stretch a bit between sets and exercises. I guess the old body is tryin to tell me I am in fact no longer in my 20s and it is long past time to take up a regular stretching routine. See why I want to do yoga????

While I was at the gym, I saw on the news that the University of Michigan has put out a list of words that they want people to stop using . I like this idea. Metrosexual is one. hmmmmmmm. 

Posted: Fri - January 2, 2004 at 04:59 PM          
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