Chest and calves yesterday - today was back
Went working out pecs and calves with my wife in Brussels yesterday evening because the weights are just too light at my local gym.
Started out with some incline dumbell flyes, felt pretty strong so I went up to 46kg for 8 reps. Next was incline barbell presses for a maximum of 140kg for 8 reps. Didn’t feel a lot of pump yet, probably because of the carb depletion the day before, so I decided to do some higher reps on the bench to the neck presses. Don’t remember how much weight I used but I did a lot of high rep drop sets. To finish off, I used the cable crossovers, again not too much weight but really squeezing and contracting at the top and holding the weight when going down. This really got the blood flowing.
After this it was time to hit the calves. For this I used standing machine press and went as heavy as I could for 8 to 12 reps.
As we went home my wife had the magnificent idea to order some pizza for her and my little daughter… damn, I hate these diets… myself I had some very tasty chicken and rice while I was watching them eating… urgh… these diets are getting harder and harder to deal with as I get closer to the contest, but I’m proud of myself that I didn’t take one single bite. Oh well I just hope it’ll pay off…
This morning I went to do some back training at a gym near my house. They don’t have a lot of weights there, so I stuck to the basic barbell movements. Started to warm up by doing front pull-downs, followed by heavy t-bar rows and barbell rows. To finish off, I did some seated rows, followed by bent-over rows combined with cable pull-overs. Didn’t feel my back as well as I do when training at my regular gym but I didn’t feel like spending too much time to drive to Brussels.
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be doing shoulders and hamstrings in Geraardsbergen and Friday will be my off day. I’ll also get my fat percentage measured tomorrow evening so I hope I made some improvements from last week.
