Had an awesome session today. It was really good to be back in the gym and lifting again, I'd been looking forward to it the whole day beforehand. I started with the new program and it worked well, I was sore the next day but not badly so and I found it quite difficult which is definitely good. It was nice not to be lifting really heavy straight after the last 2 months, apart from being physically tough it tends to burn me out mentally after a couple of months because such a big load on the bar means high chance of injury if I falter, which means that mentally I have to really be up for it. So while I still had a decent weight on the bar, it was more about pushing out more reps. On squats I found that really challenging, because I've stuck to 5x5 for so long. Pushing out 10/8/6 was seriously tough.
Squats 110kg x 10/110 x 8/110 x 6 - I was planning on increasing the weight slightly between each set, but being out of the gym for a couple of weeks made it harder than I expected, so I'll give it a session or two before I begin moving it up
Bench 70 x 10/75 x 8/80 x 5 - Bench felt really good, I kept really nice form and the last few of each set were a real strain
Backwards lunges 50 x 10/50 x 10 - Started out with a bar on the shoulders, but felt really weird so I went back to just holding dumbells, 25kg in each hand. I'm using this mainly as an assistance exercise.
Incline dumbell bench 50 x 8/50 x 8 - Was actually alot harder than expected. Being already fatigued from the regular bench press and having to stabilise 2 dumbells was really effective. I think I'm going to see some really good results in the next month from this.
Reverse crunches 3 x 12
Rows 10 x 55/8 x 65/6 x 75
Overall a good session. Was supposed to go to the gym today (Friday) but just couldn't be bothered. Just need to chill out a bit so I'm not going to stress about it. Will be back into it on Monday. Can't wait to get my gym set up going, it's alot easier to work out when you don't have to drive 25-30mins each way to get to the gym.
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