Day 3 - Shoulders & Arms, Ab Ripper X

Diet: Check!  Totally stuck with it.

Also, I weighed myself today, and I was down 3.4 pounds to 243.2!  That was fast (and probably coincidental)!

Today's workout was shoulders and arms, and it actually hurt a lot less than I thought it would, and less than the other ones.  I think that's because I've worked these muscles really hard before (in basic training).  Still, it was tough.  I think they all will be.

These were done in sets of three, with each set being repeated before moving on to the next set.  In the set, the exercises are for shoulders, biceps, then triceps.  Each set is the same way.

I'm not going to write the specific exercises anymore, but I will post the reps/weight so I can show progress.

10 blue / 11 blue
20 blue / 16 blue
15 red  / 15 red

9 red     / 8 blue
10 blue / 12 red
15 bent / 15 straight

15 red / 15 red
16 red / 16 blue
8 red   / 7 red

16 red / 16 red
15 red / 20 red
11 red / 7 red

red - too heavy / 16 green
15 red / 16 green
L 10 R 10 / L 15 R 8

Of course, after this workout I had to do the abs again!  It kinda sucks to think to yourself "two minutes left... one minute left... I'm done!" and then have to spend 15 minutes killing your abs and quads.  Oh well.

Oh, and do my quads HURT!  When I do ab exercises, it tends to be my quads, not my abs, that fail first.  I'm hoping that will change as I go through this.  Anyway, what with killing my quads Monday (ab ripper), then again yesterday (Plyometrics), then again today with the ab ripper, it really hurts to use my quads.  Going back and forth between standing and sitting is the worst.  Going down stairs isn't very nice either.