Starting second round.
Last week was my first round of workouts. Today I began round 2. I concentrated mainly on chest today. I did 2 sets of Inclined Bench presses. I didn’t push it to failure because I don’t train with a partner, but the second set came aweful close to failure. I followed that up with 4 Supersets of presses on the machine (safer) and Incline DB Presses. I finished chest off with 3 sets of Incline Cable Flyes. It’s a little tough for me to feel a good burn in my chest. It’s not like my arms where I can really feel it. I don’t know if that’s lack of experience, not hitting them hard enough, or if it’s normal. I seem to think my arms wear out before I can really impact the chest a lot.
I started working my legs today. I do a lot of walking here so I need to go kind of slow so as to not get too sore. I know what it’s like to have sore leg muscles. It hurts. I decided to start off with hamstrings. I figured just 3 sets of Ham Curls on the machine would be enough. I used some pretty good weights and squeezed real good at the top of each rep. My hams were burning pretty good. I’ll feel it tomorrow. I think I’ll gradually increase the intensity on the legs as I go.
I finished off my workout with some mass building for my abs. I used some heavy weights for 3 sets on the crunch machine and supersetted those with leg raises to really burn in those lower abs. It felt pretty good.
Prior to todays workout, I weighed myself and I was 164. That’s 4 pounds higher than last week. I don’t know if it’s muscle, fat, or both at this point. All I can do is hope for the best and keep on keepin’ on.
August 17, 2007 at 2:39 am
To improve your chest workout you may try to doing your cable flys before your bench presses. The technique is called pre fatigue, where you use an isolation exersise to fatigue a muscle group before doing the compound lifts. This way you will use all muscle groups more evenly. I have been using this in my chest workout with good success.
August 17, 2007 at 3:29 am
An opposing view to the comment above…I believe that pre-fatigue might cause you to use less weight in your heavier chest exercises. Progressively heavier weights lead to quicker gains. Make sure you get some of your heavier sets in before hitting light exercises.