Animal76’s BodyBlog

I went to do chest & triceps yesterday and after doing 3 warm-up sets of incline press on the smith machine I went to do my first working set with 2 plates on each side…the weight felt light, but as I cranked out the 17th rep I suddenly felt a severe tightness in my outer right pec. I racked it immediately even though I could have probably gotten over 20 reps. I stretched it out and attempted a few more sets with different exercises, but it  was a no go. I wasn’t worth it to risk tearing a pec just to get a chest workout. So I improvised and did some triceps, biceps, abs and threw in some rear delts. I wasn’t happy that I didn’t get to hit chest this week, but staying injury-free is most important. I actually got a good workout anyway. I did a circuit style workout with lighter weight and got a great pump. Today and tomorrow will be recovery days and then Sunday i’ll hit shoulders.

Started the week off with 2 great workouts. I had a friend in town this weekend and took an extra day off Sunday (which was needed after last week’s workouts), so yesterday I consolidated shoulders, biceps, calves and abs into one giant workout. It was an intense 105 minute workout of giant supersets. I worked continuously in circles going from a shoulder exercise to a bicep exercise to an abdominal exercise to a calf exercise.

Today I hit back. Friday is typically my back day, but I have 12 personal training appointments scheduled for friday (i’ll be working from 6am until 8pm) so I figued it’d be hard to squeeze a workout in there and it probably wouldn’t be a good one anyway. So I hit back tonight and had a great workout. 26 total working sets. I started the week off on the right track. Tomorrow is leg day and I plan to crush them just like last week.