This week was a tough one indeed. Since I changed my workout, I wasn’t lifting weights extremely heavy, I was lifting more for a tone look. Now with my first week back in the gym, I was a little weaker then I planned on being. I got back in the gym on Monday. I arrived at the gym at about 7:50 AM. First, I started off with abs, my favorite workout. NOT. Ab Ripper X sucks completely but my stomach is clearly showing improvements. When I was finish, I got up grasping for air because this knocks the wind out of you. I went to the main weight room at Penn State Abington. Once in there, I took out my phone and looked at the workout I was going to do.
This week, I planned on doing a three day workout. I wanted to only do two days because it hits more body parts and leaving you less sore. But I wanted to get back into lifting heavier again. I did chest and biceps on Monday. For my chest workout, I do regular bench, incline bench, then I do the same thing but use dumbbells instead of the bar bell. After I complete that, I go into cable crossovers. These five chest workouts are my favorite and that’s why I only do them. There is many more that I used to do but I stick to only five because the two days aren’t the greatest. I am pretty sore. After I finish up with chest, I do biceps. I broke it down into only four bicep workouts. I did cable biceps, single arm on the cable, dumbbells and then 21s. These workouts are all used with a machine that has cables on it. This is easier because you only have to pull out the plug and put it in to increase the weight instead of taking weights on and off which can be time consuming.
I took Tuesday off because how my schedule for school is so I lifted again on Wednesday. My routine was the same in the morning. I did abs before I started lifting again. Wednesday my workout was back and triceps. Usually I do legs and biceps on this day, but I was trying to switch my workouts up. For back, I only do three workouts. Each workout hitting the upper, middle/ sides and lower part of my back. These workouts are rows, lat pull downs, and back extensions. After I complete the back workouts, I did triceps. I do the standard dips, tricep pull downs and skull crushers. I keep my workouts short and sweet.
Thursday I didn’t work out as well. I kept this workout, Monday-Wednesday-Friday this week. Next week I will be only doing two days because it’s better for me with my time schedule and all. So on Friday, I did chest and biceps again. I did the same as Monday’s workout, only I cut out about half of the work out. I only did three chest work outs and two biceps. I did this because I didn’t want to be completely sore for Monday when I would do chest again. After I completed lifting, I went into the basketball court and began to run. In the gym I ran mountains. Mountains are when you run from base line to base line. You do one sprint, take a ten second break and then do two sprints back and forth, and so forth. When you reach the top, you go back down to one again.
This week I would say was a success. Next week, hopefully my workout is better. I just try to do my best while I am in the weight room because it’s important to me to be strong, not only looking just feeling confident that I can do things that maybe I never had done before. I still am getting closer to my goal. Until that is reached I will bust my ass to get to where I want to be.
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