Monday workout focuses on legs and shoulders. From all of my body parts, my legs bring the biggest challenge to the plate. Thanks to my injured left leg.
My personal trainer becomes really cautious when he wants to train my legs.
Before I started my workout, my personal trainer and I had a short discussion on my legs. He thinks I have dislocated my entire left leg. He's right.
Now the thing is my right leg has been supporting most of my weight throughout the years. As a result, my right leg is stronger than my left leg.
Above: Leg Press Machine
When I used leg press machine, both of us noticed that it was my right leg that supported most of the weight. Not my left leg.
So the solution to the problem? I had to train each leg separately on the press machine and other weight machines. Holy, it was challenging particularly for my left leg as it was weak but had to support a lot of weight.
My left leg wasn't able to keep up with my right leg when I used the press machine. By 5 reps, my left leg was about to surrender. My personal trainer then asked me to support my left hip with my left hand whilst pushing the weight. I kept telling to myself, "Left leg, don't blow into pieces and don't fail on me now."
When I trained my left leg on the press machine, I noticed how unpleasant the appearance of my left leg. It wasn't that 'visible' when I stand. The tibia/fibula bends a lot. I thought it was going to snap. I almost had teary eyes looking at my left leg. But I did my best to ignore that sad feeling and continued my workout.
I managed to complete my sets.
I usually finish my workout with crunch and sit up (super set until failure) on a sit up bench. But today he asked me to do 250 reps of crunch. I was fine with it.
I expect my legs going to be really sore on Wednesday. I'm the type who gets DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness). Basically muscle sore will only appear few days after workout.
I will see a specialist to scan my left leg. I'm not sure when though.