It’s been ages since I posted here. It’s not that I’ve lost my motivation to work out. I’m still working out, only losers give up, yeah?
For the time being, I’m just focusing on my upper body. And one exercise really.
Here’s my progress so far…
Benching: 37.5 kgs @ 15 reps x 3 sets, 311 tempo, 30 sec rest in between.
Bent Over Rear Delt Rows: same as above
Behind the Neck Barbell Press: 22.5 kgs @ … (same as above)
My goal is to bench 40 kgs by the end of February. I only weight 70 kgs (I think… last time I checked was last year), so that’s big for me. If I can bench consistently at 50 kgs by the end of August, I’ll be happy. I’m aiming to bulk up until the start of spring (September for us in Australia), then cut for 16 weeks until the end of 2009. Hopefully, by then, I’ll be a sweet 80 kgs of muscle at 5-6% fat.
Then to strut my stuff in January.
But yeah… I realised that I was doing something wrong in my benching technique.
Well, not technically WRONG, but different.
I had a close grip on the bar. I was wondering why my triceps were growing bigger and bigger and my chest still wasn’t filling up yet. Don’t get me wrong, any muscle growth anywhere is good, but I always thought benching was to increase the size of the pectoralis majoris.
Then last night, Vince DelMonte sent some promotional email to me. He’d teamed up with 3 other fitness peeps and sent out a bunch a free crap to all their subscribers. No doubt some sort of marketing gimmick to net them more subscribers or some shit like that but I had to credit them, they did give us stuff of value.
In the free report of the guy who masterminded the giveaway, there was a PDF that had pictures of the most common exercises. There was a picture of bench pressing and yeah. That’s where I realised my grip was too close.
I tried benching at 37.5 kg before with the normal benching grip and man… it killed me. I think combined with the fact that I was tired and hadn’t gotten enough sleep or something, I had to stop premature.
Then again, i noticed my tits getting bigger and that made me happy. I figured in my 3 sets, if I do the 1st set with a “regular” grip, then the 2nd set with a close grip, then the last at a regular grip again, would it give my muscles good distribution of stress? Because I mean, benching is for the chest, so 2 regular grip sets should take priority, no? but I still want to build up my arms. My triceps are looking good (biceps still need work)
So I dunno. Next time I work out is Friday. I’ll see if I could do 15 at regular, 15 at close, then 15 at regular again. I doubt it, but we’ll see how I go.
