Basic Conditioning Test: Dead Lift

Yesterday I thought I would have time to go this:

1. Joint Rotations
2. Warmup
3. Light Stretches
4. Basic Conditioning

...mainly to just give me a benchmark on the conditioning section of Elastic Steel. As it happened I only got on the the first exercise of the basic conditioning where it seems I am allowed to choose either squat, dead lift or lunges - I chose deadlift.

I carefully performed and stopped at 100 dead lifts (I still wanna call them 'Squats' though). It was not easy, I got in to a good solid rythym and then found the last 15 or so quite tricky to stay balanced. I will be far from '100' on almost all the other conditioning exercises.

I have been working hard over the last 12 weeks on getting better conditioned by doing the Turbulence Training Dumbell and Body Weight exercises - basically this means that over the last 12 weeks I have probably done almost 900 squats with weights...

(24 squats with an added 15 kgs in each hand per session, 3 sessions a week, for 12 weeks gives me, erm, 24 x 3 = 72 a week, x 12 = 864 weighted squats)

.... so that must have had some effect on my strenght and muscle condtioning for my legs and glutes.

I'll do some other exercise on Friday and let you know the score with those too.