Posts Tagged ‘Chest’

Training Journal: Monday 16th February 2009

Monday - chest and run
Chest
Started off my chest workout with the chest press machine, which should imitate the movement of a bench press. Went through a couple of warmup sets, 25kg and 35kg before starting my workout proper. The weight and reps for each set was:

45kg x 10 reps
55kg x 10 reps
65kg x 8 reps
65kg x [...]


Training Journal: Monday 26th January 2009

Monday - chest and shoulders
I started using creatine last Thursday, at first I didn’t think that it was having any effect, as I’d felt exactly the same during my workouts since I’d started using it. Today was the first day that I noticed any difference. I just seem to be able to workout for longer [...]


Training Journal: Monday 19th January 2009

Monday - chest and shoulders
Chest
For my chest workout today, I decided to do some step down sets, starting heavy and getting lighter, with three sets for each movement (decline, flat and incline).

Decline bench dumbell press:

18kg x 12 reps
16kg x 12 reps
14 kg x 12 reps

Flat bench dumbell press:

20kg x 12 reps
18kg x 10 reps
16kg x 11 reps

Incline bench dumbell [...]