I am a bit early with this update, but that is because I am not working out tomorrow. Something about it being Christmas Eve! So, we moved my workout to today.
I wanted to work on some specific areas today as I have noticed there seems to be some imbalance between my right side and my left side. Unfortunately, curling creates a body that promotes one side over the other to tighten up and get stronger. For me, it's my left side. The left side is definitely stronger than the right side and it looks tighter.
So, today was upper body work with more emphasis on the right side than the left. We started with single arm incline bench press using the machine. On the machine you sit as opposed to lay down. We did 12 reps at 25 pounds per side where both arms pushed at the same time, then we switched to doing single arm pushups while holding the other arm at arms length. This was just to find out if this was going to work. Then we moved to the seated bench press machine where we did the same thing. We liked how this looked, so we started the 3 sets of doing incline press then bench press. The part that was different is that we pressed twice with the right side and once with the left side. Very tough at the end. We also dropped the reps to 10 instead of 12.
The second superset we did was focusing on the back. We did single arm lat pulldowns first then moved to single arm rows. Again, we did more on the right side than the left. We first did a set to see if it would work then moved onto 3 sets of 10 reps again. This time for the lat pulldowns, instead of holding the weight at arms length, I had to hold it down. Alternate arms and do twice as many on the right as the left. The rows were the same.
So, now I am at home and I am not sure I am going to be able to lift my arms to wash my hair in the morning. It was a tough workout.
There was one scary part of the workout though. I discovered a strange lump on my chest. It is right above my sternum, dead centre of my chest. Not sure what it is, but it hurts to touch it. I will be calling my doctor about it, but probably won't be able to get into see her until January. I don't think it's anything, but I want to be sure.
Anyway, I am not going to be working out until Monday when I do my cardio again. My next weight lifting workout will be on Tuesday due to the holiday schedule. I am also curling starting on Boxing Day, so I am sure I will get some exercise.
See you next week and have a very Merry Christmas!
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