ROFL
This is not PROGRESS...it's catching up.
I have not been in gym for 3 months now (4 months if we are talking consistent attendance)
I wasn't able to find a good source on how much strength I should have expected to lose, So I went with an expected 10% per month, or just dropped 50% in toto. I don't know if I read that 10% per month somewhere, or just made it up. It probably wasn't the right metric, as we shall see.
I started out intending to do 4 or 5 sets per exercise, at 8 reps per, and increasing the weight as fast as I felt comfortable doing.
I am sure I was doing the deadlifts:
- 1- wrong
- 2- too fast
I was gassed bad and sucking wind by the time I finished deadlifts, so I slowed down on the calf raises.
I was getting dizzy only after the second exercise!
However, I decided I would just keep going until I swooned once, then call it a day.
So I went a little slower on chest press/back row. I had to, because I couldn't go any faster ;>
BUT...but,but,but...after the curls, I went to the seated dip machine, and saw somebody had left the big boy plates on it (45 lb), and I didn't like the idea of changing them out down to the 40 lbs I had planned...screw it, I'll do less reps and add weight slower, I told myself.
Instead? THIS IS EASY LOL
Same thing on the shrugs...somebody left the big boy plates on, and I was too lazy to shift down...shrugs weren't easy, but they were doable.
Finally got to the ab machine, where I thought I definitely be weaker than before...I was having the stomach issue before the EDG last month (yah, I been putting off the gym a month longer than I planned. And I found the machine so easy that I just kept going...without realizing, I surpassed my previous max here. It may be that the gut issue was holding me back.
| Exercise | Previous Max | Sets Today | Ending Max Weight | Ending Reps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cardio -Bike | 158 heartbeats/min | 5 min | 159 heartbeats/min | |
| Deadlift | 135 lbs @ 12 | 4 | 115 lbs | 8 |
| Std. Calf Raise | 90 lbs @ 14 | 3 | 60 lbs | 15 |
| Chest Press | 100 lbs @ 16 | 3 | 80 lbs | 8 |
| Back Row | 100 lbs @ 14 | 3 | 80 lbs | 8 |
| Bicep Curl | 25 lbs @ 12 | 3 | 20 lbs | 10 |
| Std. Dip | 130 lbs @ 14 | 3 | 110 lbs | 12 |
| Std. Shrug | 47.5 lbs @ 16 | 3 | 45 lbs | 12 |
| Ab Machine | 110 lbs @ 14 | 4 | 115 lbs | 12 |
Yep, I was doing em wrong...
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