Went to the gym this afternoon to do some interval training followed by some abdominal exercises. This is largely because I feel guilty about not doing abs during the week, and also because I’d had a few pints the night before playing poker and wanted to work off the extra calories!
I started off by going on [...]
I went into the gym today feeling a bit down, I played squash last night and was truly awful. I couldn’t seem to hit the ball and lost every game. I couldn’t for the life of me work out what was wrong, but I just seemed to be a bit under the weather.
It took all [...]
First up for my legs today was the leg press. I’m not really going heavy on the leg press at the moment, I’m instead, focusing on doing three good sets of twelve reps, and each week putting up the weight by 10kg. This is so that I achieve progressive overload on the legs, by increasing [...]
My shoulders seem to be progressing quite well in recent weeks, I think this is down to the heavy duty training that I’ve done. Though now I’ve decided to do a few more sets of shoulder press at a slightly quicker rep speed and go heavier on the weights. I’ll come back to heavy duty [...]
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 [...]
Trained in my local gym today which means I can’t really have a good back workout, maybe I should rephrase that as have a heavy back workout.
First exercise was seated cable rowing, which doesn’t go heavy enough for me, so I have to do some very slow reps to get a workout from it. I did [...]
First exercise was cable curls for biceps. I find these are a good exercise for building strength and size. You can go much heavier than dumbbells, and unlike a barbell they keep the tension on the biceps all the way through the exercise. My aim today was to do a similar bicep workout that I [...]
I’ve still got a slight twinge in my groin so am forced to have fairly easy leg workouts as I don’t want to agravate the injury and prolong the recovery. As such, I’ve opted for fairly light leg press and normal sets of hamstring curls and quad extensions.
Leg Press
100kg x 12 reps (warmup)
130kg x 12 reps [...]
I started off my shoulder workout, as usual with shoulder press, a great compound exercise for building mass in the shoulders. I was trying to think about a substitute for shoulder press yesterday, and came to the conclusion that there isn’t really anything that will do the same job as a shoulder press. You can [...]
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 [...]
