“You Don’t Look Like You Are Having Fun!”
That’s what one of the trainers at the gym is fond of saying if he sees me with a cross look on my face. I am not one of those people that can hide how I feel.. no poker face. And when I put my mind to doing X reps with X weight, and get absolutely pissed off if I can’t do it! Lately the source of my disappointment has been a little pain in my left shoulder and a little pain in my right bicep/forearm - and not good pain. Those two are keeping me from working as hard as I want to, and thus, the unhappy face.
I just read some pretty interesting stuff about chest development in the bodybuilding.com newsletter. Apparently the incline bench press is not necessary and puts a lot of pressure on your delts. Flat and declined are the way to go according to the article in the newsletter. Pretty interesting. Also a good explanation of what high rep-low load does as opposed to high load-low reps. You might already know that stuff, but it was interesting to me.
TH
June 9, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I know how you feel about trying to push with pain. Going to check out the newletter, I have been hitting incline bb press and it definitely doesn’t agree with my sore shoulder. Hang in there and thanks for posting.
June 9, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Incline bench is one of my least fav exercises, so it works for me Steve. Hope that shoulder & bicep get better. It’s very frustrating when the mind is willing, but the body’s not ready to go to the limit.
btw, your facial expression could just be general grumpiness at 5am.
June 9, 2009 at 12:59 pm
True Al! Very true!! Need more coffee before hitting the gym!