AMRAP

Not sure if this should be in this forum or the Workouts forum, but here it is anyway.

I just finished the first AMRAP workout (A) for Stage 1, I am not sure I did so well.  Anyone else care to share how you did at the end of each stage?

Hope you have a Healthgain Day!
~Julie

Squats: 20, 95 lbs
Pushups: 20 (minding mine are the girley ones, I can't do regular due to shoulder injury, trying to strengthen)
Row: 25, 60 lbs
Step Up: 20 each leg, 30 lb dumbells (total of 60 lbs)
JKs: 20
Dumbell Chest Press (my addition): 15, 25 lb dumbells

You can do 20 prone jackknifes?  You're doing awesome - those are superhard!  Are you sure you did the AMRAP workout with your starting weights and not your most recent ones?  Those weights look pretty high.

LOL - susiecue - starting weights? LMAO! Ummmm... nope. I sure didn't! I guess I was in a rush to get there, and didn't read up properly, eh? Well shoot, should I do it over??

It's ok Nanny I think we've all had to go back and re read parts of the book. I was having calorie issues and had to tweak that a bit.

I wouldn't worry about doing it over.  I'm pretty sure the special workouts are just in there as a psychological boost.  (Since it seems pretty normal for it to take until stage 2 or 3 for people to see changes in their appearance, the AMRAP workouts show you that you really have accomplished something pretty impressive.)

Its true, I did feel that way... even WITH the heavy weights!

Sounds like you need to up your weights quite a bit.  If you are able to do 20-25 reps with your "heavy" weight, you are not using enough weight.

Actually, I what I had done was take it down one notch to the immediately previous weight. IOW: I had made it up to 70 on the rows... So, I just randomly decided to see how many I could do at 60.  I'll do better next time.

Isn't there anyone else who cares to share their successes (or not so successes) with AMRAP?

I had to go digging through my journal, but here's what I found:

• Squats = 40 reps (40 pounds)
• Push-ups = 20 regular push-ups
• Dumbbell rows = 25 reps (15 pound dumbbells)
• Step-ups = 50 reps (15 pound dumbells; staircase step = 1 foot high)
• Prone jackknife = 15 reps
• Deadlifts = 30 reps (40 pounds)
• Dumbbell shoulder press = 20 reps (15 pound dumbbells)
• Pullover = 30 reps (10 pounds)
• Lunges = 20 reps (10 pound dumbbells)
• Swiss ball crunch = 30 reps