Lifting And Riding

I've only tried one bike ride since my last posting. It was a failure. The wind was 30 to 35 mph and against me on the uphill route. I didn't make it more than a few miles, and I had to stop and rest twice. On the plus side, it was an hour of very hard work, even if my mileage doesn't show it. I felt accomplished enough afterwards.

I've been lax about writing down daily steps from my pedometer. My trip log is 421970 steps for 100 days of counting, so over that 100 days I've walked about 40% as much as I should have.

Today I successfully did five sets of five reps of 110 pound overhead presses. The squats and deadlifts (+50 pounds) have been doable at that weight for a while now. It's the overheads that kill me. The alternate day is squats, bench press, and barbell rows, and I've already succeeded at 110 pounds on that day. So Wednesday I'm looking at 115 pound squats, bench presses, and barbell rows. The rows are getting hard too. Soon they might limit me as much as the overhead press does. If I tried I could probably squat a lot more weight than 115 pounds, bench more than 115 pounds, and deadlift more than 165 pounds. Rows and overheads are my downfall.

I've been thinking of working out more days, but the alternate days would be at drastically reduced weight. I did it a couple of times with overhead press, and I really think it helped me.