First workout today
Well, I finally started my workouts. I was waiting for my supplements to come in, but decided to borrow some protein powder from someone. I took my Pinnacle NoX2 this morning at about 0615, ate a breakfast at about 0730, and had my protein shake at 0930 just prior to my workout.
I worked chest and triceps and a little bit of abs. My chest workout consisted of 2 warmup bench sets with light weights (about 10 reps), followed by four heavy sets (about 6-8 reps for failure). Then I did three sets of cable presses (or flies. I don’t know the terminology yet) (about 8 reps for failure) and finished chest off with 2 sets of machine flies. For triceps, I did 3 sets of straight bar presses (about 8 reps for failure), two sets of v-bar presses (about 8 reps for failure), and two sets of machine assisted dips to failure. After that I did some leg raises and hip raises for my abs. I just wanted to give them a good burn.
After my workout, I was actually very surprised at the pump in my pecs. Yeah, I called them pecs. I have never seen my chest pumped like that before. granted, there’s not much on my chest, but I could actually see the pump. Talk about motivation. That felt good. I’m sure I’ll probably be sore tomorrow. I’m going to try to work my back and biceps in a day or two, depending on recovery of this workout. I wanted to work my shoulders today following chest, but my ticeps just weren’t able to push any heavy weights out. It would have been more of a tricep workout than a shoulder workout, so I’m thinking I’ll work shoulders and legs a day or two after my back and biceps.
Overall, I think my first workout was pretty good. My muscles did feel very week but this was the first weight training I’ve done in years, so that’s no surprise. I’d log the weights that I was using, but some of them were in Pounds and some were in Kilos. Maybe after my first week I’ll record the weights I’m using.
