First Workout Report
by Chris Perrin on Jan.02, 2010, under Weight Loss
Well, it’s begun.
Under my belt: my first workout and my first meals. I’ve had breakfast, lunch, and a snack. Sadly, it feels like all I’ve had was two snacks and an amuse bouche, but I’m hanging in there.
Sigh.
Well, I knew what I was getting myself into.
As for the workout, well, yesterday I said I wasn’t scared. I said I wasn’t worried about the work it was going to take.
Today, well, I think I can draw a parallel to soldiers in battle. See, there’s the captain who starts yelling it’s time to go take this hill that has bad guys on top.
And while I am all nice and safe in my foxhole, I start thinking “Hey, that sounds like a pretty cool idea. Let’s go! It’ll be fun. Sure they’ll be some running and some danger, but yeah, I’m pro-hill taking.”
(That was me yesterday.)
See, then the soldier jumps out of his fox hole and suddenly there’s machine gun fire and mortars and explosions. Suddenly, the whole hill thing starts to sound like a bad idea.
(That’s me today.)
Oh well, there’s not a lot of quit in me. And despite my griping, I’m looking forward to working out again tomorrow! Talk to you then!
January 4th, 2010 on 6:00 am
What sort of workout?
January 4th, 2010 on 7:58 am
Chest Workout:
10 minute warm up on the elliptical
4×20 Dumbell Press with 25 pound Dumbbells
4×20 Decline Press with 25 pound Dumbbells
4×20 Incline Press with 25 pound Dumbbells
4×25 on the abs machine
Swam with my son for 45 minutes
January 4th, 2010 on 9:18 am
Nice! How many workouts do you intend to rotate between?
January 4th, 2010 on 9:48 am
Thanks!
I like the low weight, high reps workout because it facilitates weight loss and if I ever go back to ju jitsu, it helps. (The question right now is not one of desire, but time sadly.)
Right now, I see myself doing a 5 workout rotation: chest, legs, arms, back and shoulders, and core. Day 6 (if I can do 6 in a week) will be pure cardio which is always horribly painful since I try do about an hour/hour and a half of cardio. After that, I tend to make no plans except sleep.
Legs:
Leg Press, Calf Raises, Leg Extensions, Leg Curls
Arms:
Dumbbell Curls, Hammer Curls, Spider Curls, French Presses, Tricep Pulldowns, Overhead Tricep Extensions
Back and Shoulder:
Shoulder Press, Shrugs, Bent Over Rows, Lower Back and another back machine whose name escapes me
Core:
??? Need something for this.
Plus I do abs every day. They’re small enough they can recover quickly.
January 5th, 2010 on 10:29 am
“There’s not a lot of quit in me”.
AWESOME. you can do it. I’m totally cheering you on, I just needed to kick my soda habit to kickstart my resolution… but sounds like you are kickstarting your LIFE!
GO!!!