HIIT today. Went awesome.
I was tired as you’d expect but I managed to run further in the same amount of time. That’s progress!
Lifting tomorrow.
You wanna know what I did yesterday? OK…
Squats - 45x5, (70x5)x3
Leg Curls - 30x5, 50x4, 47.5x4, 45x5
Bench Press - 40x5, (60x5)x2, 60x4
Dumbbell Rows - 20x5, (27.5x5)x3 <–both arms
Shoulder Press - 20x5, 30x5, 30x3, 20x5
Sit Up with 5kg plate - 10x3
Chins to failure x 3
Err. That’s about it. What can I say. I finally started benching 60, and I was only 1 rep away from a full, complete, kiss my arse set! Damn!
I clearly got cocky with the leg curls. 30kg felt so light. 50 bought me back down to Earth though, don’t you worry!
My shoulder presses also concerned me. I thought I’d be able to handle 30, but back to reality with a bang.
If you don’t try, you don’t succeed. I’ll be more aware of my limits next time, and now I have something to aim for. When I finally complete a full set at 60, or I can press 30, I’ll know I’ve come a long way from where I’m at now…
As for HIIT. I did another 15 mins, as per my program I stole. See above.
Managed to add to my distance, yet again. Which is good. In the 3 times I’ve done it, I’ve managed to squeeze an extra 0.3km out of myself.
All in all. I’m just doing it. Seeing progress, so I’m happy, feeling good, so I’m happy and able to play better football than ever. So I’m really happy!
Pictures soon…
[quote]Rich_T wrote:
I had a bit of a thought. Should I do one set of my exercises and move on to the next one, three times, or should I do 3 sets of an exercise before moving on?
Been thinking of some ways to step up the training. Some ab work, shrugs or anything I else I can find. Any ideas on what would be best for a newcomer like myself. Or should I just stick to this for the full month before finding bigger and better things?
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As far as exercises go, there’s some discussion to this, but for you, the former. one set of one exercise, one set of the next exercise and so on, three times. This allows more recovery in between sets.
Progress in the gym by adding more weight. If you can’t, do more reps. If you can’t rep more, add another set. If you can’t do that, rest less in between exercises.
The latter is what is commonly recommended for progression on a cutting program.
Well, it sure has been a while!
I’m not going to give excuses for my recent lack of posts.
So, pictures up later, admittedly a little late, but once again, no excuses.
My diet’s suffered a bit over the past 2 weeks. All my own fault. No point moaning about it. Just gotta get on with it.
Weights post coming up today, plus pics. Will you see any improvement? I don’t know, haven’t looked myself yet. I feel better, so that’s something I guess. Only been a month though, so I’m not expecting the world.
Laters.
I took the pictures, but I’m not posting them.
The reason? I think I can analyze them myself. I can see I’ve made some progress, that I’m on my way to my goals and that the program, the diet, the whole thing. It’s working.
My month long, self induced, no one to blame but myself hiatus has left me, naturally, weaker than before.
Being the egotistical fool that I am, I tried to jump straight back into it and start where I left off. As I should have known, it doesn’t work like that.
Squats - 45x5, (70x5)x3
Dead Lift - 40x5, (60x5) x3
Bench Press - 40x5, (57.5x5)x2, 57.5x4
Dumbbell Rows - 15x5, (20x5)x3 <–both arms
Shoulder Press - 20x5, 30 x 1
It was at this point I felt dead, like I needed to vomit and started to shake like a motherbitch. Most odd. I took it as a sign to stop.
So, all in all, kind of disheartening. I’ve gone backwards, all because of my time keeping skills, not planing ahead and being a bit of an idiot. Lesson learned though. Get back on the horse as they say.
HIIT Running tomorrow.
Laters.
HIIT was lame.
I used to be able to do nearly 3km in the 15 minutes of HIIT, but am now down to 2.5km. Balls!
Weights are getting better. Doing some in a minute, post results and shiz later.
End.
Here’s what I did done do today.
Squats - 55x5, (75x5)x3
Leg Curls - 30x5, (45x5) x3
Bench Press - 40x5, (57.5x5)x3
Dumbbell Rows - 20x5, (25x5)x3 <–both arms
Shoulder Press - 25x5, 30x4, 30x3, 30x4
Damn shoulder press! Don’t know why I’m finding it so hard. More running tomorrow and a presentation to give. Fun fun fun!
Laters.