Senior Project Day 5

Day 5 

5/14/21

For today's workout, I did legs and lower back. I did a 10-minute bike warm-up in the gym with 10 minutes of a dynamic warm-up to loosen up my body. I went into my deadlift set of 9 sets of 5-10 reps each set. In between sets, I did Russian twists with a 25-pound plate. To finish it out I did a superset of calf raises, leg curls, and leg press for 5 sets of 10 reps each. To cool down I did 5 minutes of biking, stretched my lower body using the 5-way lunge variation, and rolled out. In the afternoon I did research on this week's push/pull/legs workout versus our next week's workout: the Arnold split. 

Hours:

Gym 9am-11am

Research: 1pm-2pm


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