listen to this BS
Im taking "weight lifting" at my college... the "professor" is a 28-year old woman who is 7 months pregnant who should not be lifting weights... the same woman who claims that leg curls work your quads and not your hamstrings....the class is full of 150 pound freshmen who are all trying to lift more weight than each other... its a joke
for the past 6 weeks we have done "endurance"... i enjoyed doing all of the lifts using 15 or 20 pounds at most, so it would not affect my normal workout schedule... Now she wants everyone to work on "strength," performing all the lifts 4-6 reps max... next class she wants us to find our "max" for every single one of the lifts we perform...
today she had me demonstrate how to do 4 reps on the bench press, and she kept increasing the weight more and more until i was doing the whole stack.... i explained to her after class that i cannot do this 3 times a week, because i will overtrain myself badly... not to mention it will overtrain 90% of the ppl in this class... and she said that i need to do it to pass the class... so she continues to watch us closely and keep increasing the weights if we can do 6 reps with it... and faking that i can only lift a couple plates isnt working either
heres our workout that we do monday wednesday and friday (all three sets)
leg press
leg curl
pullups
pulldowns
bench press
ab machine
tricep ext
arm curl
making kids who have never worked out before find their "max" on those lifts is rediculous and probably dangerous, but thats the way shes doing it, and she wont change it for anyone.
so the bottom line is, i will have to drop this class, and i will not graduate at the end of this semester as i had planned... now i will have to take a 1 credit PE class next semester to get my degree
Im taking "weight lifting" at my college... the "professor" is a 28-year old woman who is 7 months pregnant who should not be lifting weights... the same woman who claims that leg curls work your quads and not your hamstrings....the class is full of 150 pound freshmen who are all trying to lift more weight than each other... its a joke
for the past 6 weeks we have done "endurance"... i enjoyed doing all of the lifts using 15 or 20 pounds at most, so it would not affect my normal workout schedule... Now she wants everyone to work on "strength," performing all the lifts 4-6 reps max... next class she wants us to find our "max" for every single one of the lifts we perform...
today she had me demonstrate how to do 4 reps on the bench press, and she kept increasing the weight more and more until i was doing the whole stack.... i explained to her after class that i cannot do this 3 times a week, because i will overtrain myself badly... not to mention it will overtrain 90% of the ppl in this class... and she said that i need to do it to pass the class... so she continues to watch us closely and keep increasing the weights if we can do 6 reps with it... and faking that i can only lift a couple plates isnt working either
heres our workout that we do monday wednesday and friday (all three sets)
leg press
leg curl
pullups
pulldowns
bench press
ab machine
tricep ext
arm curl
making kids who have never worked out before find their "max" on those lifts is rediculous and probably dangerous, but thats the way shes doing it, and she wont change it for anyone.
so the bottom line is, i will have to drop this class, and i will not graduate at the end of this semester as i had planned... now i will have to take a 1 credit PE class next semester to get my degree
