Week 3

I absolutely hate back days but they are essential to what I am training for I have to come in the gym with a go to attitude. I came in the gym with a lot on my mind and mentally I just was not there, which is not a good thing. The gym is a place to not worry about a thing and just focus on the task at hand.  M brought a friend with him named..we will go with A. We start out the day with some alligator walks and push ups. M told A show me his stomach and let me just say shoo! He was ripped, definitely gave me some motivation for the day.

We head upstairs to an older model smith machine to do my pull ups. I don't know if I was nervous because there was someone there watching me but doing pull ups was just do hard. After about 10 minutes of pep talking I did my sets and we went on to the next machine.

So we head on over to do lat pull downs. I do 5 sets of 10 starting at 10 lbs and finished on 50 lbs [per hand]. I then do lat pulls still 5 sets of 10, 10 lbs to 50 lbs [per hand]. 50 lbs. was super tough but M and A said this "I know grown men that can't lift this much, you are doing great". When I have someone there pushing me I feel like I could rule the world, this is the magic of have a trainer. He pushes me to my limits and it feels amazing! We do two more machines for my lats, again 5 sets of 10 and going hard.

Bi's and Tri's day went really well. We pushed the limits this week and exceeded what my expectations were, and let me just say this week has been the hardest but waking up sore always feels good. It tells me that I am doing something right and to just push harder the next week.

Thursdays are shoulders! We headed over to the Smith machine where I rolled right underneath it and basically just lifted the bar over handed as much as I could. We didn't put a lot of weight on this exercise because it was tough. I do 3 sets of 10 and then we head upstairs. This exercise is by far my favorite for shoulders. I did what is called the Arnold press, your seated holding two dumbbells with your fingers facing you, then you want to lift the dumbbells but rotating your hand so that your fingers are now facing against you. I did my 3 sets starting with 15 lbs and moving up to 20 lbs.

This week I moved up my time on the stationary bike to 40 minutes at level 3.5. It feels so good when I am getting in my car knowing that for the past 3 hours I have done nothing but pushed the envelope and getting excited to see what happens the following week.

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