Week 4 Summary

Last week was my week 4 gym workout. It was totally great. I am writing this a little late as I already started my week 5 workout today :(.

As usual, I've had no cardio thus far because of my poor ankle. It is much better but after doing a little jumping I still felt some pain.

Back to week 4. It was like workout out on steroids. I basically tried to catch up with my week 3 workout and I did. I probably worked out 4 times last week instead of the normal 3. It feels great though to finish 4 weeks on a good note.

Hopefully, I can keep it up. Today I weighed myself at the gym and I was at 166lbs.

Week 3 - Summary

Week 3 of working out was pretty bad. Here's why:

1) I had no real cardio due to my ankle injury. At the most I have been doing light biking on the stationary bikes at the gym for maybe 5 minutes (it's even more boring than jogging).

2) After my Wednesday - Leg and Back workout I felt horrible and had to quit halfway. The good news is that I got a decent leg workout. The bad - I didn't get to work out my back.

Therefore, week 3 was a fiasco. I got 1.5 full workouts and no cardio. Week 4 is going great so far but I am really playing catchup.

On the bright side, I think I gained some weight. Hopefully, it is more muscle than fat but I seem to be weighing 165lbs or more at the gym (measured before and after my workouts). That means I gained 2 lbs and maybe by the end of my 8 week program I would have gained 8 lbs of muscle.

Week 3 - Chest & Shoulders

I must say I was in the zone today!!

Warmup
My warm-ups usually consist of a 5 minute jog but my ankle is still hurt. So what I did was a short 5 minute bike warm-up. It didn't get my hear-rate has high has my jogging but it was good enough I would say.


Chest
I started my chest workout as usual with my bench press including my 2 warm-up sets. I did 4 sets and I actually did my 10 reps pretty easily with 45lbs on each side so I did increase my weight by 5 lbs on each side on my 2nd and 3rd set. I tried increasing on my 4th set but after 2 reps I had to bring it down again. this was my first weight increase... after 2 weeks - not bad! I continued with my other 3 sets for which I think I also increased my weights!!

Shoulders
I had a pretty good shoulder workout too. Overall, I also increased my weights on all sets.

Overall, I had a great workout. I was definitely in the zone and felt a great pump at the end of the workou.