After roughly a month’s rest, I went backto training. Excited than ever, I took my pre-workout meal and headed straight to the gym.
I will be posting my work-out logs, programs, diet and such for others to critique.I would love to hear your thoughts about what I do in the gym.
Tweaking. On the previous logs, I have mentioned about me finding myself overtraining. After several attempts to cut my training duration within the 30-45mins time-frame I still wasn’t able to beat it. I had to make a choice. It was either I continue to overtrain or to apply changes on the program.
Initially, I wasn’t quite sure why I was taking that long that much time to finish my training. I tried to lessen the sets and reps of my work-outs, although not for that reason. From 5sets x 5reps, I cut it to 3sets x 3rep. I also paid much attention to my resting periods. I rested for only 1-2mins per exercise. Still, I ended up going behind the duration I was aiming for.
The first exercise that I do are squats. Knowing that my program involves high volume exercises, I’d always do warm-up exercises. Having had an injury before, I never neglected doing warm-up exercises. I do about 2 sets.
I came to a decision that I should take out an exercise. On this log, I opted out on shrugs.
Why? Shrugs, although a compound exercise, as most of the exercises on the traning program are target the minor parts of the body. This is not to say that they’re not important, it’s just that I get hit my deltoids when I do my bench presses and closed-grip bench presses.
Work-out log: 10.31.09
Squats: 3 x 3 - 225lbs
Deadlifts: 3 x 3 - 260lbs
Machine Rows: 3 x 3 - 260lbs
Bench Press: 3 x 3 - 240lbs
Closed-grip Bench Press: 3 x 3 - 130lbs
It worked out fine for me. I was able to beat the buzzer in doing so. Do you think otherwise though? Let me know.
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