Day 4 - Hardcore Session!
Today started off flat out bad... I had the day off, which is rare, but the check engine light came on the car I just bought last week so I had to take it in this morning... I had to walk 3 miles to the gym, and half way it started to fucking rain on me... Then when I get on the treadmill and the phone rings and its the shop telling me my car is $850 to fix... So at this point Im so fucking pissed Im going to take it out on the gym... That's exactly what I did...
Cardio was nothing short of incredible... I started running and I just felt awesome... I normally do 5.75 miles in 40 minutes but when I was approaching 40 minutes I was feeling so good I decided to go to 45... Then I decided for 50... I just went ahead and did 60 minutes... I did 8.5 miles in 60 minutes... That's a damn good run! Then I did 15 minutes on the elliptical for 2 more miles... On to the weights!!
Today was chest and biceps... I was up to 194 today... That's 3 pounds up from Monday... My arms and chest look a lot fuller already... I started with the bench press... This is one of the very few exercises that I feel I am just not that strong with... My goal is to get to 225 x 10... I am kind of stuck at 210 and 215 x 10... I did all four sets at 210 x 10 and I was kind of mad I did not get more but I will get to where I want... I was just getting warmed up though... I moved on to a superset of standing dumbbell alternate arm side arm hammer curls... I did all 4 sets at 50 x 10 and I alternated with dumbbell arnold bench presses... My pr on these was 80 x 10 and I did my first three sets on 80's and bumped to 85 for a nice new PR at 85 x 10... I was really happy with this! Then I moved on to another superset of TEN SECOND curl bar negatives and curl bar straight arm chest raises... I have been incorporating TEN SECOND negatives lately... At least one a workout... These are extremely difficult to hold slowly for ten seconds but I feel mixing in an eccentric contraction and elongating muscles helps with growth... I did all four sets on the negatives at 70 x 10 and the chest raises I did 70 x 10 for the first three sets and then got up to 80 x 10 on the fourth set... That's a pretty big chest raise... Next was something new I decided to try and it shredded my chest... I did alternating arm dumbbell flies... This is extremely difficult but it shreds your chest... The first three sets I did 70 x 10 and was able to get up to 75 x 10 on the last set... Then I moved on to single arm iso dumbbell over the knee curls... My previous PR on these was 60 x 10... I was able to not only get 65 x 10 but also finished at 70 x 10 so I crushed that pr... I finished up with dumbbell incline simotaneous hammer curls... My previous pr on these was 50 x 10, which I did the first 3 sets but then was able to get up to 55 x 10... This was an extremely successful workout and I am so pleased with how things are going so far... I feel very energized and my strength is continually going up... I am looking for some major improvements all the way around with this cycle... All feedback appreciated!!