My Body Blog

This week  was the wrap-up for my HST 7 rep set, and I was pleased with how it went. I had some other issues I was focused on and afraid I might be distracted going into the gym, but I was really focused and for the most part had two great workouts. Here was my routine for the last three weeks. I did the far right column this week.

Couple of notes, I had a knee issue going the first time I did the deadlifts, which  seems to be resolved. I am slowly working up the weights, and 135 felt like a piece of cake. Hoping to up the poundage significantly the next few weeks.I also had a hard time on my last upper body workout with the shoulder press. Just hit the wall after the heavy declines & weighted dips and couldn’t get those 50’s over my head, so I dropped back to 40’s. Have to confess that I also blew off my calf raises & tibia raises the last lower body workout. Mostly it was a time issue, I had an appointment, and my workout was going a little longer, so felt like the calves were logical place to cut.

My diet hasn’t been as strong, partly because of working out harder and I’ve just needed more calories. However I did a better job of eating 5-6 smaller meals. I but a lot of plastic containers and have a set of 9 small ones that I load up as my meals for 3 days at a time, and I’ve been eating salads at night at least 2 nights a week.

Got the calipers out and the measurements around my waistline were minutely smaller than last reading, but really hard to tell if that was real progress or imagined. Looking in the mirror, I can see a difference, but I’ll give it another week or two before I can say one way or not.

So for the next 3 weeks I am going to four sets of 5 reps each. Should be great workouts!

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