June 19th, 2009

Today's nutrition was pretty non-descript so won't get into that today. I had an excellent workout today. My workout focused on pecks and back. I also did my usual 45 minutes of cardio.

The Workout

I started off with a brief session on the stair stepper doing intervals-100 calories burned. I then spent about 10 minutes on the elliptical just to get nice and warmed up-60 calories. After this I did my main cardio workout which consisted of a 20 minute interval run jog-200 calories. I also rowed 1000 meters on the concept-II rowing machine-60 calories.

For back I did lat pull downs, as well as seated rows. I did 5 sets on each and they felt pretty good. Today I wanted to max bench so I started at 135 and worked my way up. My previous personal record was 195 pounds, today I hit 205! I'm trying to bench 225 by the end of the summer, and I feel like I'm well on my way to doing so. I also did dumbell press to further work my pecks using 65 pound dumbells.

I'll be taking the weekend off to rest and recover, then it's back to the gym on Monday!
-Mike

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Daily inspiration: Cutting all drinks out of your life (alcohol, soda, coffee, etc) and just sticking with water and milk can help you lose weight. It's a relatively easy transition (which I've made) and it really helps save the calories. Spend your calories on good, nutritious meals which fill you up, not on junk like soda! With proper dieting and moderate workouts three times a week you can easily lose a pound or more per week!