This was the first week of the “Strength Max” portion of the program.  It felt good to be doing heavier loads again.

This week’s innovation was the addition of “Punisher” sets.  These are 100 rep exercises!  You start with a load you can do a max of 30 – 40 reps with, then squeeze out 100.  Obviously, this takes more than one set to accomplish, but the idea is to minimize the intervening rest periods… each “rest” was only about 15 – 30 seconds.

Naturally, the 100 rep sets are at the end of the workout, right when I’m tired and ready to hang it up for the day.  The Punisher exercises we did this week were 1) calf presses (leg press machine); 2) reverse curls (EZ-bar); and 3) seated leg curls.

“Punisher” is a good name for this… doing 100 reps really, really burns.  I was ok with the calf presses (they hurt, but my calves are quite tough, and can take a LOT of abuse), but I’m still aching from the other two. :-(

We didn’t get any Prowler workouts in this week - we had either John’s work schedule or the weather (rain) to contend with.  Admittedly, we had a chance yesterday (it was Saturday AND sunny), but blew it off, since we were both sore from our upper body workouts.

C’est la vie.  We’ll pick it up again next week, weather (and John’s schedule) permitting.

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