The Eight & Ninth Workout

A bit of a delayed write up from last Saturday’s workout as I haven’t had time! I’ve also include Tuesday’s workout too as they were pretty similar.
I was back on form with squats for the last two sessions and managed a personal best of 10 reps at 60kg. I seem to have hit a mini plateau on my dumbbell bench press as I haven’t been able to add any more weight or reps for a few sessions. Think I’ll give it another couple of sessions to see if I can improve, if not I may change my chest exercises around a bit.
I’m still being a pansy when it comes to deadlifts and in my last session I managed a measly 10 x 35kg!! Hopefully my lower back and grip will sort itself out soon so I can go heavier. My dips and chins have improved over the last two sessions though. I’m now up to 15 dips at body weight and 7 chins at body weight.

I’m making slower improvements each session now, either adding a rep or weight but I figure that this will have to plateau sooner or later. Since I’m trying to diet/cut at the mo I’m not supplying my body with enough protein to grow much muscle, and at the moment I’m just trying to maintain it really. I imagine once I start to bulk the weight I can lift will increase.
It’s probably not going to have helped that my diet this week has not been great and as I’ve mentioned previously I’m not expecting too much over the Christmas period! However I am really looking forward to starting a strict few weeks in January to see how quickly I can get down my body fat down to the level I want. Plus the quicker I can do this, the quicker I can start a bulk (a clean one mind)!

I’ve also done a couple of short HIIT running sessions since I last wrote, mainly because I had some time to kill on a couple of non gym days. I guess this can’t hurt with the fat loss, but I need to double check before I do anymore.