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A morning person I’m not - I’ve tried to work out in the morning but I could never get the same level of intensity and feel as strong as I do later in the day.  Because of an overnight trip for work, I had no choice but to get my workout in this morning, the alternative was to have to wait an extra two days - not going to happen.  So I decided to approach this morning’s workout with a positive attitude and give it my all.  In my program it was upper body 3×6 day, the hardest upper body workout.  I had back DOMS from Tuesday night deadlifting, didn’t know how that would affect me, but I was determined to push through it no matter what.  After warming up chest, here’s what I did:

Flat Barbell Bench Press: 3 sets of 195×6, CLEAN!

Incline Barbell Bench Press: 162×3, 157×4, 146×3.  This is always my weakest.  Couldn’t do as much as planned on this today.

Decline Barbell Bench Press: 3 sets of 205×6, CLEAN!  Always my best lift, same today, was very hard but I dug deep and did it.

Pullups: Set of 11, 9, and 8.  Not expecting to do so well on these today considering back DOMS and did them after chest work!  Very happy with this!

Standing Overhead Barbell Press: 3 sets of 115×6, CLEAN!  Being at the end, these sets were hard but I gave it all I had and did them.  I was getting a major upper body pump going by this time, felt great!

After this I did 6 light sets of different cable, dumbbell and machine exercise to stretch out the chest and really get the blood flowing.

I was having such a good time with this workout, I pushed my HIIT from the middle to the end.  After my first treadmill sprint I had some tightness in my right calf, so I just walked it off, trying to stretch it out with every stride.  Seemed to work, so I went back to sprinting, but walked between sprints instead of jogging just in case.  In 20 minutes I did 6 30-second sprints at speed 9, with varying walking times in between.  Exhausted but very satisfied!  Maybe I’m more of a morning person that I thought?

Got home lunch time and enjoyed some steamed salmon and brown rice.  It’ll soon be time to get ready for a 2 hour drive to my meeting, an overnight stay, then work at a client’s office tomorrow.  Knowing I got this great workout in before I left puts me in a great frame of mind for the trip!  I’ll be taking three days off from the gym before tackling squats and lower body on Sunday.  I hope everyone has a safe, active and healthy weekend! 

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