Sorry it's been a while since I last left a note here, but I haven't been in the gym lately. Life got in the way, as it sometimes does.
Anyway, today was the first day of the second stage in my training. It was the day to up the weight and lower the reps. My system has been shocked enough, so it's now time to build the muscle.
Today we worked on legs and chest. We did squats and leg presses until we found a weight that would make me work to get 10 reps out (it took about 3 sets to find that weight) then we did 3 sets of squats and leg presses 10 squats and 10 leg presses followed by a break. Repeat 3 times.
From there we moved to my superset for the day. We did dumbbell bench press on a slight incline, then chest flys (same incline), then chest flys where we had to twist at the end to have my pinkies trying to touch each other (again, on the incline) then over to the Smith Machine where we did speed presses followed by 3 pulse presses (that's where you bounce the weight twice on the chest before pressing it all the way to the top). That last bit seemed to really hurt one part of my arm (I think I have a slight tear in the muscle in one spot on my left arm) so we changed that last item to just bounce presses. 8 reps on the second superset and 10 on the last. All the other items were 10 reps.
On Thursday we move to shoulders and back. I am sure that it is going to be another painful day. That being said, I feel quite good tonight. My body is tired, but it is the good tired - the kind where you know you did something, but not enough to kill me. Check with me tomorrow and Thursday to see if I still feel the same.
See you Thursday.
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