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I am a wife and mother of 3 beautiful children. I'm a cytotechnologist and I would like to become a professional figure athlete. My goal for 2009 is compete in both figure and bodybuilding competitions and to eventually get a pro card and get endorsed by a supplement company.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Load sets, quads, hams, abs, and calves

I performed my training this morning before leaving early this morning work because the snow fell hard last night and is still falling. There is 11-14 inches of snow outside!!!! I'm not going to attempt driving to Bally's of the YMCA today, so that is why I worked out in the gym at my job. I did legs today. There is only two leg machines at my work gym, and no free weights. So, I got a mini leg workout done today.

I decided to load set today. I used the leg extension and leg curl machine. On the leg extension machine I warmed up with a very light weight (15lb), then I did one repitition down the weight stack going from low weight to high weight(160lbs) without rest. I did the same for the leg curl machine starting at 15lbs and performed one repition of each weight (no rest in between) until I got to 110lbs. It was an ok workout. I like drop sets better, but I can't start out using very heavy weights when doing leg training like I can with the upper body. For some reason, I always have to start out using light weight and progressing to heavy weight (exception is squats) when training legs.

Here is what I did early this morning:
*45 minute low intensity elliptical machine workout
*Ab crunch machine (45lbs) 50reps,4sets
*Standing one-legged calve raise 35rep, 4sets
*Leg extention machine (load set) 15lb-160lb 1rep each weight,4sets
*Leg curl machine (load set) 15lb-110lb 1 rep each weight,4sets

I took the following supplements this morning:
*amino acids
*whey
*fibersure
*creatine
*L-glutamine

I will take the following supplements later:
*CLA
*multivitamin/mineral
*3-6-9 essential oil caps

I wish I could of gone to one of my regular gyms that I weight train at, but the workout I had at work was sufficient enough (I hope). I will most definetly train my legs at my regular gym next week.

Have a good day eveyone. To all those in the MetroDetroit area (especiall Oakland County), stay in today!!! It's a lot of snow and the roads are horrible!!!

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