Wife joins me at gym
Did Shoulders and Calves yesterday and had a chat with the owner. He said that I was doing ok, but he just tweaked my sets from 3×10 and suggested that I do 4 sets of 12 and then once I can complete the sets with the same weight to move up.
Well tried it on shoulders and it burned, really felt it and had to go lighter than what I was usually used to.
I don’t have my numbers in front of me (so I’ll have to guess and update later), but the following exercises I did do was.
Dumbell lateral raises - 4×12 @ 5kg
Dumbell front raises - 4×12 @ 5kg
Seated Miltary Press - 4×12 @ 15kg
15 reps of bodyweight calf raises
Calf Raises (using leg press) - 4×12 @ 109kg
So that was the end of workout 1.
Then later on, went again with my wife (whom I’m very proud of) as she did really well. She’s also alot stronger than she looks and she was pushing weight (first time) that alot of woman I see at my other gym not even attempt. This trip was more of a get famaliar with the gym rather than a proper workout, but we did a warmup on the machine and then got her to do
Chest Press 3×10 @ 21kg (she said that she needs to go higher next time)
Pec Fly 3×10 @ 29kg (Again, she said she needs to go higher)
We tried the lat pulldown, but she said that she was feeling it in her arms rather than her back, so maybe I was explaining to her wrong. It was hard to troubleshoot as I couldn’t feel what she was feeling. Any tips
Barball curls - 3×10 @ 12.5kg. (We tried the machine, but she didn’t like the grip so we tried the barbell. She was ok with that but we then moved onto the dumbell which she said worked for her better. She said that she just has to get used to holding dumbells).
Then as the gym was soon to be closing, we did a quick set of leg presses, she automatically knew not to lock out the knees and she did 3×10 @ 90kg (again, could have gone higher, but this was her first time so didn’t want to push it too hard).
What I might do is get a workout program from here that is a total body workout.
I don’t think I could help beaming that she was there, told her about this forum, but she’s not the blogging kind so I’ll do it here for her (under my own blog, rather than start a new one).
