Last night I did my mid week workout although it wasn’t my normal routine. I was still quite achy after Monday’s session, particularly my legs and chest. I did hit PB’s on these lifts on Monday so that could have explained it, but anyway I didn’t really feel that I’d had enough recovery time since then. I thought I’d give it a go anyway in case I was just being a pussy so I started with squats as usual, loaded 55kg but only managed to hit 8 reps and I could tell I wouldn’t be able to go heavier. The next set I just dropped the weight down to 45kg and hit 15 reps and I decided that would have to do as I didn’t have the energy for more.
As I didn’t really feel I was going to be able to do my usual sets and I was already at the gym, I decided to do a few different exercises so that I still did something rather than nothing. I did 3 sets of bodyweight dips as normal but then I followed them with some incline bench fly’s. I also did 3 sets of chins, and managed to do a personal best of 5 reps at bodyweight! I chucked in a couple of sets of lat pull downs and cable crossovers for variation. Then I did some tricep extensions and some abs exercises too.
I’ll go back to my usual workout program for my third session this week (either Friday or Saturday, haven’t decided when yet) but just thought I’d mix it up a bit since I wasn’t going to be able to do my normal exercises with the intensity that I wanted. I figured it would be better to hit some alternative muscles/target them in a different way, than do nothing at all!
That’s all for now, I’ll update again after the weekend and my final workout this week.
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