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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Workout Log 9-12-12: Chest & Biceps

Chest & Biceps Day

My Workout


Workout Notes

You can see what the ideal workout is for this day here. It is Dorian Yates' Blood & Guts trainer, just like before. There are two exercises I messed up here a bit by not lifting heavy enough. The first was Incline Dumbbell Press. I was able to get nine reps and was supposed to hit exhaustion between 6-8 reps. Next time I'll have to raise weight again!

I also went too light on Dumbbell Flies, which was also supposed to be between 6-8 reps. I'll increase weight next time on those as well.

It's been striking how much stronger I feel from one week to the next since starting this program. This was only my 3rd Chest and Biceps day and the weight I'm lifting has gone up a lot. Granted, on Decline Bench Press, I was overdoing it for my warmup sets last week, but my working set weight has gone up consistently.

The two workouts I'm most impressed with, though, are Incline Dumbbell Press and Dumbbell Flies. I've gone up very quickly on the Incline Press. Last week I was doing 10lbs less and performed 2 fewer reps as well. It could be, in part, that I made my warmup sets truer warmups, but the improvement is still encouraging.

On Flies, however, I have no such excuse. I didn't change anything but my working set and still exceeded my own expectations pretty wildly with a 10lb increase and the same number of reps.

Excited to see what I can do next week!


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