Pleased: a gym boast

[redbird]

For several months I've had the semi-arbitrary goal of being able to press twice my body weight on the Nautilus leg press machine. Today I managed it: 390 pounds, 12 reps.

I'd already reached 240 pounds on the plate-loaded machine, and I suspect those numbers have more to do with reality. It's also a different position: the plate-loaded machine I use has me standing, and puts pressure on my shoulders, whereas the Nautilus I do lying back.

An arbitrary number, but a goal reached. Most of my goals have been the more prosaic and in some ways more difficult "keep doing this" or "go back, it's only been 2 (or 3) weeks, you haven't lost much yet."

I swore off dieting years ago (it only made me miserable). So it's been a long time since I had a weight-related goal. This one I'm proud of.

[cross-posting to irongirls]

Comments

Re: Pleased: a gym boast

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

woowoo! you could lift me on your shoulders!

i just found a site you might appreciate reading -- i enjoy it for its sense of humour and straight talk, which i found through something completely unrelated to weight training: <a href="http://www.stumptuous.com/weights_index_revision.html>stumptuous</a>. if you don't already know it, that is.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I think that's a very worthy goal. Congratulations!

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[elusis.livejournal.com]

How do you figure weight on the plate-loaded machines? I've been doing the chop squat sled for a while now (one of the only things on that side of the gym I could figure out without help) and am only loading about 30 pounds of plates on. But that sucker is HEAVY!

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

It may be arbitrary, but t'hell: you did it!

[redbird]

I'm just counting the weight of the plates. I'm more concerned with being aware of progress I'm making--whether I've added more plates, or how many reps I can do--than with the absolute weights, in most cases.

Actually, that sounds more sensible than it is. Truth is, I hadn't thought about weight-of-machine much. I wonder how I could find that out. The calf machine I use (also plate-loaded) clearly weighs significantly less than the leg press I was discussing.