Workout Blog

Welcome to my workout blog! I have created this blog to help me monitor and motivate myself to achieving a decent diet, fat loss and muscle gains. I shall be posting on here fairly regularly with updates on my progress. I tend to do quite a bit of reading on work out related stuff. So if I come across any interesting articles or info I'll link them in the Articles section at the bottom of my blog so others can check them out too.

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave comments or ask any questions. There's a bit more info about me in the section on the left.

Michael

Tuesday, 13 November 2007

The First Workout

As I have mention previously, I have already been working out for about 2 months using a slightly different full body workout. Last night was my first attempt at my new workout in conjunction with the new diet plan.
I thought it went ok but as I am trying to keep my workout time to an hour I’m not doing any specific lifts for arms, purely hitting these through compound movements.
I think on workouts one and two (which I will be doing after work during the week) I shall stick with normal my compound routine as I’ll be a bit short of time. Then on a Saturday when I can spend a bit more time at the gym, I’ll add in a few sets of EZ bar curls and some overhead tricep extensions at the end of my session.

I have listed below the details of my first workout. Note that some of the exercises are listed with a * instead of kg. This is because I am using machines which have a numbered weight system rather than kg which is a bit annoying! Dips and Chins are decreasing in *number as at the moment I am using some weight to counter balance my body weight because I would not be able to do enough reps otherwise (10* = Easier, 0* = My full bodyweight). I am hoping to just be using my own body weight with no weighted assistance soon.

Monday 12th November

Squats: 13 x 30kg, 12 x 40kg, 10 x 50kg
DB Chest Press: 13 x 20kg, 10 x 22kg, 9 x 22kg
Deadlifts: 12 x 20kg, 8 x 30kg, 8 x 30kg
Dips: 12 x 10*, 10 x 9*, 8 x 8*
Chins: 14 x 10*, 9 x 9*, 7 x 8*
Seated Rows: 12 x 11*, 8 x 12*

I am new to Deadlifts so the weight this week will probably be quite low whilst I get to grip with the technique.

1 comment:

Neil Mct said...

GOOD JOB MAN

go to extreme tracking and grab the html u need then go to blogger layout where you can add links etc and pasts it into html box there - hard to explain here.

I have got used to all the blogging stuff having done it for over a year


Current Personal Best Lifts

Current Weight 72kg's

Squat: 125kg - 2 reps
Deadlift: 108kg - 5 reps
Bench Press: 80kg - 3 reps
Dumbell Bench Press: 32kg (per arm) - 5 reps
BO Rows: 55kg - 5 reps
Dips: Bodyweight + 25kg - 6 reps
Chins: Bodyweight + 5kg - 5 reps