I’m no Jack Palance.  I’m not even Laura from the video.  First I try to do the normal one-arm pushups and utterly fail.  Then I try the knees version.  Still can’t do it.  Laura, you win!

Yes sir, it’s push-up time again.  Started this one off strong.  That always seems to get me into some trouble down the line.  No exception here.  By the 5th or 6th exercise I was not so much feeling the burn as feeling nothing in my arms.  I wasn’t killing it after that but I did surprise myself by being able to at least hit all my goals and keep going.  Resistance type exercises are tough mentally. You really need to at least push or pull out that last rep or 2 to get some gains but it’s easy to let yourself stop before you should.  I’m also in a weird place with the weights.  I only have 5 lb increments and for many exercises I can do 15-20 at one but the next 5 lb increment I can’t even do 6.  I need some 2 lb wrist weights or something like it.

Felt good to get back on that horse…stance.  Didn’t let the weekend bring down all the progress I’ve made and got right back at it.  We even had yet another cookout with neighbors.  We went 3-3 for the long 3 day weekend and didn’t have to cook dinner once.

New routine with some new exercises. It’s the start of Phase 2.  The manual says you have to Bring It in this phase if you want to get BIG.  Max reps out at 8-10.  Well…it wasn’t hard to do that.  After about 500 push-ups we finally got to pick up some weights. By then my arms were already hanging dead from my body so 15 lbs felt like 50.  This routine has a LOT of push-ups.  Wow.  I now miss the pull-up bar. Never thought that would happen. 

So this was a very tough one.  Felt like I was back at the beginning of the whole thing.  Can’t wait for the next time to see if I can bust out a few more reps of everything late into the routine.