My Second Workout

Well my second weights session on the new diet was a bit of a mixed bag! I started off with squats and deadlifts to get them out of the way as I’m not a fan of deadlifts. Then the trouble started!
Just as a background my last session for squats lifts were:
13 x 30kg
12 x 40kg
10 x 50kg

So last night I thought I’d increase the weight and I started off with 13 x 40kg which was fine. Then for some reason I added another 15kg which took me to 55kg plus 20kg for the bar. At this point bear in mind that I only weigh 65kg so I’m squatting a total of 75kg which is 10kg more than my bodyweight.

The first two reps were ok, then on the third as I started to come back up I lost my balance and the bar tilted to the left at which point I stupidly let go off the bar!!! Luckily I quickly came to my senses and grabbed back hold of the bar and straightened up, but I was very close to having a nasty accident!
I then managed to compose myself and push out another few reps which took me to a total of 8 x 55kg; my best lift so far (although not without incident!) Note to self, do smaller weight increases with squats!

The other rubbish element to my workout last night was that I had to leave Deadlifts out as I did one set and my lower back started hurting and I didn’t want to risk damaging it. I think I’ll need to drop the weight right down for deadlifts until my lower back has some more strength.

Next I decided to do dips and chins as on Monday I found them pretty hard after doing bench press. This definitely helped. As I managed to do 10 reps at near bodyweight on dips and 8 reps on chins and my arms were pumped after that.

Then I moved onto dumbbell bench press and discovered that although my dips and chins had just improved my bench was just about to get worse! My arms after doing close gripped chins where f**ked!!! All I could manage was 20kg for 10, 9 and 8 reps! I’m thinking I might just try sticking to my normal order on Monday and Saturday, and then as I did this Wednesday, mix it up for variety, plus my chest and arms felt like they got a good blast with this variation.