The main reason why I ended up doing legs & back yesterday - with the legs being a day after a hard workout on the half marathon the day before, and the back on short rest - was because I knew that this evening I'd be in a hotel. I can do the leg routine in a hotel room, but I have no pull up bar, so my workout would be limited. Hotels, however, often have dumbbells - and the shoulders & arms routine is one that I feel I get a huge benefit from when using dumbbells. As a result, it was possible for me to get a good workout in today while also seeing what kind of weights I'd need to get, if I were to get dumbbells. See? I think of everything!
Unfortunately, it also means it is hard to compare against last week - because all I know is that I used the blue band last week - but no idea how many equivalent pounds that ends up being. But I can say that I found a set of 15's and 20's are definitely adequate for this workout for me. Most of the things like curls or presses were good with 20 lbs, while some of the fly and tricep stuff was better with the 15' lbs. The one exercise I couldn't really do was the outstretched shoulder fly, because the lowest weight they had was 15's, which was still too heavy.
Other than that - because I was able to select the proper weight to limit reps not on time elapsed before they went on to the next thing, but instead my own fatigue - I'm pretty certain that I'm going to be feeling sore in my arms starting tomorrow and into Thursday. But, its a good kind of sore, because I brought it.
(Except I didn't do ab ripper today, I'll do that tomorrow)
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