Bonus Workout!
I had planned to stick to cardio yesterday - in the form of lawn mowing and then going swimming. The lawn mowing took one and a half hours, and I worked up a good sweat. I headed off to the community pool, only to find it closed for the evening due to the staff having to attend another event. I was very disappointed, I hadn’t been swimming in a week and it would have been great to plunge into the cool water after doing the lawn mowing. But what can you do? Take a disappointing turn of events and make something positive happen, that’s what!
I headed off to the gym and I only had an hour until I had to be somewhere else so I had to make the most of it. I would have done some cardio, but I only had sandals so the treadmill was out - I decided to try something different. I did supersets of biceps and abs with very short rest periods between supersets. I did 12 supersets in about 50 minutes and by the end of it I was winded and had worked up a good sweat. I was very happy that I could turn some resistance training into a cardio session too!
Today I am still sore from my chest workout two nights ago. Tomorrow, if I’m recovered, I’m going to start a 7 week bench press training program someone told me about on here - it is personalized and is supposed to result in, on average, a 50 pound strength gain. The first step in the program is to determine your 1 rep max, then you use that to determine the number of sets, reps and weight to use for the first few workouts. I’ll post more about this program as I go along.
