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Old 10-01-2007, 04:32 PM
Wolfram Wolfram is offline
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Default Re: My first \"Starting Strength\" workout

Did my second workout today, this time with a friend/spotter.

Squats: 2x5x135, 1x3x135
I used the same weights as last tim but [censored] me, this time around it seemed much harder. I failed the last set and got a slight tingling in my right glute and left groin. I'm going to seriously cut down the weight for next time.

Mil.press: 1x5x88, 2x5x77
First time for this exercise so I didn't know what weight to use. First set seemed a bit hard, so I cut the weight down to get better form and make sure I paced myself. Second 2 sets were reasonable form so I'll try that weight again next time.

Pen. Rows 3x5x110
This one didn't seem to hard, weight was adequate and I hope my form was ok. I tried looking straight forward while doing the exercise but this resulted in a little pain in the top spinal bone (no idea what that's called), but that could be cause it was sore from the weekend (out drinking and slamming my head etc).

This time around I did no auxilliary exercises as per recommendations.

After the workout and during stretching I noticed that my left groinal area was pretty tender. I think I might have aggrevated an old sports injury during the squats [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] But I'm not quite sure. It's just a little tender/tingly, and only hurts (and not terribly so) if I split my legs kinda wide.

Man I hope I'm not injured, cause that would suck and make me look pretty foolish after all the warnings I was given to take it slow. It's just that the weight really didn't seem that heavy when I tried it last friday, so I really wasn't worried at all.

I'm going to play basketball tomorrow, and I'll check and see how it feels then. Then I'll be super careful on wednesday when I do the squats again. Maybe I'm just to old (32) to be doing squats 3 times a week?
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