The Body I Deserve (May 19 2008)
Usually, I would do weight-training and cardio with absolutely nothing in my stomatch. But yesterday, after reading an article and spoke with a friend online (GymKitty) I decided to eat a bit today before heading over to the gym. I had two pieces of pine-apple, 1/2 whole grain bread toasted with peanut butter, and 1 whole egg, then 30 minutes later I consumed Whiteflood. I didn’t noticed a different in term of strength. Will try again tomorrow.
I tried to kill my chest today, and I did felt a little bit on it, but the morning work-out wasn’t as good as I like it to be. I do not like to rush my workout, or working out and thinking about if I am going to make it to work on time. I decided to get up perhaps 30 minutes earlier and have the pre-workout meal then head to the gym. That mean, I have to be up at 4:30 instead of 5:30am. I can do it. I just need to sleep early, that is all. I returned to the gym in the afternoon, and did chest again, I used the machine, and cool, it isolated the chest muscle. Then I did dumbbell press, incline dumbbell press, then I jumped over and did triceps press down, then I did bench press.
The free-weight area was packed with muscular guys, and here I am doing a wimpy bench press with no weight on. But I thought to myself, everyone got to start somewhere. I remembered that my motivational coach once said "how long would you give your child learn to walk? Eight months?, Twelve? maybe even fourteen months?" "Do you said, okay honey, walking is not for you. OF COURSE NOT. You would tell them to keep trying until they get it. No wonder almost everyone walks on this planet. Why don’t we apply that rule in our lives? I put 10lbs from each side, and did 3 set (8 reps each). Going to try perfect the form then increase the weight. Then I headed over the cardio area, did 33 minutes on it. Headed home, and feeling great…feeling good that I’ve conquered my fear. All will be better, I promised myself.
May 20, 2008 at 9:24 am
Keep up the hard work man! Sounds like you’re pushing yourself hard… which is all that matters. Remember that bodybuilding is not about how much weight you can push up, but how much weight it looks like you can push up. Practice with perfect form and forget about half the people in the gym that probably don’t know what they’re doing anyways. I see a lot of guys in the gym that push really heavy weights but have really crappy form and they don’t grow as fast as me. =)