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[camwyn]

I am now at the stage of weight training where I can do four sets of ten reps each with as much weight as I own loaded onto each dumbbell and still have a little steam left over. Which is to say, four sets ten reps each of 35 lbs per dumbbell- a total of 70 lbs- followed by reverse lunges and Bulgarian split squats where I have 15 lbs in each hand, then seated calf raises with 40 lbs loaded onto a single dumbbell balanced across the top of the knee, then the same 40 lb dumbbell across my lower abdomen for weighted hip thrusts. Granted, I find that I have trouble with my right leg on the Bulgarian split squats when I do this loadout. I was writing that off as poor balance until I tried doing my decline pushups, which are when I put my feet up on my weight bench so they're higher than my shoulders and do my pushups that way. I'm currently up to being able to do nine of those in a row, so long as I can briefly rest my sternum on the floor between each pushup... except that today my right thigh and knee started trembling furiously during the down phase. I've had that happen before, just not in a long time, and usually it happened during deadlifts or wall sits.

I stopped at three decline pushups and skipped my planks for the day. Pushups and planks can be added to the upper body stuff I'll be doing tomorrow.

ETA: .... four stiff-legged deadlifts sets of ten reps each. I probably should have specified which exercise I was talking about.