Dufisthenics

Today as I was doing heavy shrugs on the smith machine a younger guy and  I assume  his girlfriend were on the adjacent machine.  The woman, who was attractive and in decent shape, said something about how she wanted to lose some flab around her stomach.  Well her boyfriend pounced on the opening, saying how she needed to get to the gym everyday, do ab exercises, cardio, and eat better.  He told her how he gets to the gym everyday and how she needs to do the same.  When she said she doesn’t have time to get there as much as he does he shook his head and said, well then you can do ab exercises at home.  When the girl said she didn’t know how, her boyfriend rolled his eyes while simultaneously sighing loudly.  I don’t expect to see them working out together much longer.

I did a few belly to wall handstand push ups and struggled to get three rep sets.  Ironically, despite the pain I get in my shoulders doing pushing exercises, pushing straight overhead is not a problem, even a high stress movement like handstand push ups.  The combination of me not doing the movement for a long time combined with my weighing about five pounds more than I would like made the reps tough.

Today’s Workout 

5 minutes cardio/stretching

Pull ups x 15

Static wall handstand x 60 sec

Pull ups x 10

Belly to wall handstand push ups  x 3

Pull ups x 10

Belly to wall handstand push ups  x 3

Pull ups x 10

Belly to wall handstand push ups  x 3

Pull ups x 7

Seated rear delt – 70lbs x 10

Seated low row – 130lbs x 10

Standing behind the back smith shoulder shrug – 200lbs x 10, 250lbs x 10, 300lbs x 5