Today was just an abdominal and calve day in the gym.
1. Seated calve raises
worked up to 4 plates and a quarter for a couple sets of 8 reps. Then did a giant drop set pulling off a plate at a time until I was down to just one 45.
2. Smith Machine standing calve raises
Put a couple 25 pound plates on the ground as a base to stand on for these. Even though I don't like going too far below parallel here this way allows me to get a little bit of an extended stretch.
Worked up to 405 for the heaviest set. Then did another drop set starting at 315 and dropping a plate at a time.....going to failure on each portion.
3. Decline sit ups
Decided to do some heavy ab work today. I warmed up then slowly started increasing the weight (holding onto a dumbbell).
Worked up to a 70lb dumbbell for a set of 10 reps. The final set was with a 50 lb dumbbell to failure then continued with just my body weight.
4. Rope Crunches/obliques
I knelt on the floor and did some oblique work using the rope attached to the pulley rig for some added weight. Did about 4 sets of high rep sets here......around 30 reps each.
Called it quits.
