I was looking forward to my chest workout today because it meant I got to do bench press, which I haven’t been doing much of, due to the fact that my old gym didn’t have any free weights. I know that by doing proper bench press, I will see some serious gains in the chest [...]
This is my penultimate week of training before I take a well deserved week off, and it’s a good thing too, because today I was starting to get that feeling of dread about doing a workout. I think this is because I am finding my current routine is getting a bit stale and needs spicing [...]
My aim during today’s chest workout was to increase the weight on all my exercises, just slightly. This is because I had a big chest workout last week, so wanting to continue with the theory of progressive muscle overload that I wrote about last week, I deemed it necessary to increase the weight on all my [...]
Was working out with my brother again today as I had some work to do over at his place. It’s always good to workout with someone, you get a spotter and also some encouragement while you are doing your sets. You can also use it to have a more intense workout, by performing assisted reps [...]
My aim with today’s workout was to increase the weight on my incline dumbbell press. Last week I did one set using the 26kg dumbbells, and that felt pretty heavy, but I did just about manage to squeeze out ten reps, so for this week my aim was to do three sets of ten reps [...]
