Hey its Kris,
A quick update... After five extremely tough workouts and what feels like 100 meals, I’ve gained five pounds. New total=155lbs. I’m just two pounds short now of the heaviest I’ve ever been! I had a doctor’s appointment today in which I had to get a shot in the arm (never got my hep vaccines as a kid) so I decided to skip my arm workout today and opt to do it tomorrow instead as it felt a little bruised. This throws off my schedule by a day but no big deal. My schedule is solid so I have no worries about missing a day. I kept my nutrition on par although I probably didn’t get quite as much water in as I would have liked to.
As I said before, I’m following Vince Delmonte’s new monthly personal coaching program, Maximize Your Muscle. The first month is broken into three workouts. The first is chest, back, and abs. The second is quads, hams, and calves. The third is shoulders, bi’s and tri’s. It’s a three day on, one day off, and then start over routine. So I’ve gone through the first three workouts and then done the first two workouts for a second time with tomorrow being the final. The first time around, each workout was a complete killer. Although I’ve been working out for years now, I was definitely sore in a few new places and its amazing to see that there’s already some difference in those areas. The second time around was actually much easier for the first two workouts even with increased weight. However, I’m going to hold the weight where it is throughout the next go around to work on technique with these heavier weights. I don’t want to stick with these weights too long though as the point in the workouts is to gain strength. When hitting each major muscle with 100 reps at different points of flexion its easy to gain that strength and I don’t want to squander the opportunity.
Now when I say the workouts were easier, I don’t mean they were easy by any means. They had me dying. They were just easier in terms of I wasn’t a pile of mush lying on the ground after each set. Also, after the first leg workout in which I could only finish the first group I hit which was quads, I was going to start the second one with hams but I decided to stay the course even if it meant overlooking my hamstrings for a week. The reason being that I wanted to see if I would improve enough to be able to do quads and then hit hams this week. I was half successful. I did quads, almost died, but still had enough left over to atleast get in some leg curls and a little body weight calves. Not the way the workout is designed but I’m happy with it. Besides, my quads need it and the workout really helps to boost testosterone.
The best news of the week. My last two sets of the bench press, I hit my goal of 275lbs!! Now I have to admit, they were more like half reps but doing 275 half reps has finally gotten me to the point of 225lb full reps. I rarely work with a spotter so I’m cautious when working with new weights about trying to bring it all the way down close to my chest. I have long arms so outside of warm up sets I never bring it down ALL the way.
In other news, although my camera seems to be on the fritz right now, I am going to start taking and posting weekly pictures for progress purposes. I’ll try to get my first one up sometime tomorrow if I can get Laura to bring over her camera.
Last thing I wanted to say, Laura wrote up an intro post (about me type of thing) today. If you’re into running or your goal is weight loss, check her out. Not only has she lost over 50 pounds in a year but her new found love of running is going really well. She’s set up a system that’s taken her from the “couch” to already running a six mile race in just a few months and she’ll be doing a half marathon in about a month and a half from now. I’m sure she’ll talk more about how she’s done it, but if you have any questions about her (or my) training program, just ask. That’s what we’re here for.
Train Hard,
Kris
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