Workout Wrapup + Spartacus

It's been a crap month. There's no excuse for it, it just has been. Three weeks later and I still don't have anywhere to call home next month and I think the stress is getting to me. Instead of planning workouts all my spare time has been devoted to canvassing Craigslist in an effort to find a place that I can both afford and bear to live in. Harder than I thought it would be. Plus we've been rejected from the only two places we were really excited about, which was disappointing. Back to the drawing board...

Moving has been affecting my workouts too. I think I only made it 2 or 3 times last week -- I can't even remember! I know there was a decent run in there -- around 6 1/2 miles or so -- as well as a halfhearted lift. I might have jumped up and down at the park too? I can't remember. I do know that Monday I swam. It was a fairly slow 100 x 20m. Our pool does this stupid thing where they make the lanes go across the pool during public hours, using the short side of their 25 x 20m pool for lanes. I never noticed how much I counted on those giant +s to tell me where the walls were until they were gone. I must have nearly brained myself half a dozen times...

Pre

Energy Level [1-5]: 2

Sore Areas: Stress headache.

Yesterday: Slug. No alcohol, no exercise.

Environment: Indoors. Not too hot outside though.

Workout
Equipment: dumbbell: 25 [x1], 20 [x1], 15 [hex];
Work Time: 30:00

	Goal	Actual*
Exercise Name	Reps - Weight [type]	Set 1: Reps - Weight [type]	Set 2: Reps - Weight [type]	Set 3: Reps - Weight [type]
Goblet Squat	20 - 25lbs [DB]	18	21	22
Mountain Climber	100	107	107	110
Single Arm DB Swing	10/side - 20lbs [DB] 18lb med. ball	14	13	13
T-pushup	10 - 15lbs 12lbs [hex DB]	11	10	9
Split Jumps	40	46	44	50
DB Row	30 -15lbs [DB]	32	31	32
DB Side Lunge	10/side - 15lbs [DB]	8	8	8
Plank Row	10/side - 15lbs [DB]	30	24	24
One-Arm Overhead Lunge	12/side - 15lbs [MB]	11	5	7
Explosive Overhead Press	20 - 15lbs [DB]	20	20	20

*Color key: green = accomplished goal, blue = exceeded goal, yellow = did not meet goal

Post
Energy Level [1-5]: 3.5
Stretch Time:  10:00
Total Time: 57:00


Day After
Sore Level [1-5]: 2
Sore Areas: Legs

Comments
So glad I actually got to the gym and did this, it made me feel better about almost everything! Haven't done it in awhile, so I was a bit worried I wouldn't be as good as last time, but I think I held up. The only thing I still can't figure out is what to put in the next-to-last position. They're supposed to be twisting lunges, but I lunge so slowly I can't get a decent number in during the :50. So I switched it out for one-arm overhead lunges today, which according to Self are kind of the 'advanced' version of the previous move in that they work the same muscles but are harder, but they EXHAUSTED my shoulders and my overhead presses were excruciating. So that spot is still up for debate...

I'm also disappointed we don't have 15lb hex dumbbells -- I thought we did! Guess I'm stuck using the 12s for my pushups -- I'll just have to do them faster if I want to get better.