upper-body workout
Good news on the benching front: managed to get 10 reps at 85 for my first work set, same as before the 12-day layoff. That’s a relief. I’ll be delighted to get back to reps at 95. There’s something so satisfying about slapping a pair of 25s on the bar. At any rate, eventually I hope to get back to my strength level (and perhaps exceed it) in my lifting heyday in the mid-1980s. Strongest I ever got was reps at 115 and a 125 single (which was my bodyweight at the time).
How can I possibly remember all this? Well, I can’t. It’s all in my training logs.
You do keep a log of your workouts, don’t you? You don’t? How in the world will you know when you’ve made progress?
My favorite log is a week-at-a-glance-type appointment calendar. With it, it’s easy to see how many workouts you’ve gotten in a given week and what kind of progress, if any, you’re achieving from week to week and month to month.
When I was really motivated I used to log not only exercises, sets, reps, and poundage but also my emotional and physical state. Tired? Energetic? Dragging through the workout? Motivated to set a new personal record?
A workout log is also a good place to keep track of one’s weight.
Up next: I’m thinking of creating a new category of this blog just for links to sites I find useful or amusing.
First recommendation: women who love weights will enjoy Mistress Krista’s women’s weight-training site.
