Chest and Calves
I had a good workout today. It all began with a strenuous, all-out, 15 min drag-my-sorry-butt-out-of-my-sorry-bed experience to find out who the heck was slamming cabinet doors and making a racket so early in the morning.
Turns out there are worse things than a woman scorned- such as a child who wakes up to find her favorite cereal missing!?!
Turns out my child is going to learn to be afraid of more than the boogeyman!
*SIGH*
Who am I kidding. She could kick my butt, given the sorry state I’m in so early in the morning.
Okay, I’m up. Might as well stay up.
Started my workout with flat barbell bench press. Usually, I try to put in as many reps as possible in my sets, stopping just short of failure. Today after one warm up set (15), I just kept adding weight, but stopping well short of failure (8,5,4). Then I added five pounds to my personal best and went for it-it being failure (5,5,5,4).
Doing it this way saved a lot of energy for my heavy sets, allowing me to put in more reps and an extra set. I won’t mind doing this occasionally, but I definitely prefer going close to failure on all of my sets.
Finished off with two sets to failure (8,10) before beginning some decline work.
Started with some decline bench to failure (10,10,8), followed by some partials to work on my weak spot-the start of the press. Three sets (8,6,6) and then it was weighted dips.
I kept the weight light and really focused on isolating my lower chest region. Four sets (10,10,11,10) and my chest was done.
I’m starting to think my calves have gone as far as they’re going to go with what I have. It’s probably time to look for a calf machine.
Still, I gave it the old college try and belted out some barbell calf raises (15,15,12,12,10,10) and some individual calf raises (10,8,8,6) before attempting a few static holds on my toes with heavy weights.
22 min on the bike with a heart rate of 158 BPM and I called it a morning.
CIAO!
