Day 10 - Arms & Shoulders

Today I had a good workout, but once again I skipped out on the ab ripper. I was just too dang tired after basketball and lifting. I am going to do it tonight before I go to bed, which stinks because I will have that awful feeling all day that I still need to workout. It's so much better to get it done in the morning, so that the rest of the day I can relax and not have that hanging over me.

Today I did all the exercises with the intent of really focusing on my form. I am having a hard time with the switch flex tri workout and the congdigon curls. My form is poor even with relatively light weight, I may need to go down to 10 pounds on the tris and 15's on the curls. At that point of the workouts I'm usually pretty spent and can't seem to find any more energy to push through with good form. But at any rate, I did all the workouts and hit pretty good numbers. Not a lot of change since last week in my numbers, but I felt like I gave it everything I had. I think I'll see the biggest changes in my arms when all of this is over. Right now I'm a weakling, but hopefully that will change.

At this point I kind of struggle knowing what weight to use. I'm using 25's on most exercises and 15's on most of the tri sets. Some of the sets I can hit high numbers and some only 8-10. I'm not going for bulk, but if I use the 15's on the sets that I can only do 8-10 then I can do too many with the 15's. I probably need 20's, but I'm not about to go buy 20's because I only want to increase my weight as time goes on. Buying 20's seems a little counter productive. I think I will just do my best with what I got and hopefully after the first phase I can do everything with 25's plus.

I'm finding that most of my morning meals include a protein shake and some type of fruit. Sometimes I'll eat oatmeal or whole wheat cereal instead. Lunch has been all over the place and dinner is usually good with vegetables and a protein. This weekend I need to keep things in check. I get on the scale each day and I haven't seen the 190's for the last ten days, so this is definitely working. I need to be about 170 -175 pounds when this is all done. But my main focus is body fat, it'll be interesting to take my measurements after phase 1 is complete.