I used 35's for squats in disc3 and could have gone heavier but my arms give out before my legs. Not sure what the solution is but I might switch to a bb and see how that goes.
Judi
That's what I am worried about. I guess you get a bit of upper body work while doing the lower body too LOL!!!
Catherine, have fun breaking in your 40 lbers! I was reading another thread about heavy weights & arm fatigue and someone mentioned wrist hooks. Do you have them? I wonder if they really help cuz if they do, I could use them for squats & DL.
Judi
Judi, I don't have any straps or hooks. I think Linda does. I may have to look into it though 
I am afraid that I will have to drop my wt a little from my 1rm testing. I KNOW some of them are too heavy for me to be doing with all the other work included. It's one thing if you are doing just 1 set of something, but with multiple sets, it's gonna be a problem!!
And that my friends is where
versagripps come in. I absolutely love them, for enabling me to hold enough weight in my hands to challenge my legs. As far as the hooks posted on the OD, stay away from them. I have them and they cut into my hands and wrist something awful. So unless you are into pain.....
My shoulder injury from Friday is still feeling good, but I decided no KBs for me this week. Just too much swinging that weight around and I thought slow and controlled would be wiser. I decided on a week of Amy's Slo Mo Challenge doin the three full body premixes. But don't you know, last night I am taking my purse off, it's a backback style, and when I pull the right arm back pain shoots down the outside of the shoulder and starts aching. Friday the front of the shoulder, last night the outside. What is up with that shoulder?????
Shoulder felt okay this morning so I proceeded as planned , with caution.
Let me just add I love these workouts. Many of the exercises are so different.
[FONT="]Total Body Challenge 1: warm up from leg
I think the rep count for most of these was eight, but could be wrong on some, so the first number represents how many sets at that weight.
Jefferson squats done on alternating sides
1 - 35
2 - 30 ***The toes in and out on this are killer***
Hammy rockers
1 - 20's
1 - 15's ***need a strong low back for these***
Lying row on ball
2 - 25's
1 - 20's ***felt this a lot in back of shoulder, ?***
Shoulder press on Ball with barbell
2 - 35# ***Nothing different here, but was reall cautious with this one***
Bicep Bonfire
2 - 15's
1 - 12's ***This hit the biceps like nothing I have ever done before, the name says it all
****
French curls w/ DB (aka schullcrushers)
3 - 35# ***found the 35# DB hard to hold in the horizonital position
****
That is all that was scheduled, but felt like the chest was neglected so I added the following:
Decline Bench Press
2 - 65# ***Now this is where I felt Friday's injury in the front on my shoulder. Could not bring the elbow past chest level, so I basically worked the top half of the move***
Then did a 12 minutes cardio blast of 6 intervals at a 30/60 ratio. Burned 493 calories.[/FONT]
