I’m back on my Sunday schedule.  Actually I skipped working out in the middle of the week so I was pretty fresh today!

While I’m not a big football fan, I have followed my local area team to use it as motivation.  Sometimes watching your team win energizes you, must like a movie or an upbeat song does.  Unfortunately, my team lost today so I was in a crummy mood.  It was a hard workout session just because I was disappointed in my local NFL team’s performance.

• Bench:
  • 45 lbs –   the bar was really light like it should be.
  • 135 lbs – 8 reps warmup, but really it was kind of heavy to me.
  • 185 lbs –  8 reps (heavy but not horrible).
  • 205 lbs –  8 reps (heavy, but I didn’t go to failure, I probably could have did 9 reps.)
  • 225 lbs –  1 rep (I was so disappointed in my 205 number of reps that I decided to try a higher weight)
  • 165 lbs – warm down set (8 reps, pretty easy.)

• Curls (I’ve decided to take it easy with curling, no rush)
  
  • 25 lbs – for 10 reps
  • 35 lbs – for 8 reps
  • 45 lbs – for 6 reps.
• Rows (wimped out here too)
  
  • 135 lbs – 2 sets of 6 reps
• No weight squats
  • 2 set of no weight squats for 10 reps each.  My right leg hurt a bit where I have a muscle tear from the past.
• Goals
  • Be able to bench press 250 lbs by the end of the year.  I accomplished 225, but that’s no surprise I’ve been saying I could do it for weeks now.
  • I’m not going to mention curling anymore, I’ve met that goal and exceeded it.
  • I think I’m going to focus on losing some weight.  I think I would like to decrease my weight by at least 10 lbs by the end of the month.

While I’m not up to my old level of fitness, I’m pretty happy with my progress and I’m starting to feel strong again.

It’s good to be back on schedule… It felts weird calling this a Sunday workout, but for the past three workouts, they were done on Monday… lol

Bests,

Don