Attacking The Upper Body Workout
Thursday, March 03, 2022
It is so easy to fall off the exercise bandwagon. Go into work early, leaving work late, allergies, aches and pains, etc. Realistically for most people working out is not a career and everyday life can easily derail you. You skip one day and then another and before you know it a month of non-gym going has passed. This week I almost fell off the workout path and wanted to just sleep in. Yesterday I woke up to a stuffy nose due to allergies and knowing that I had to work a bit later I ended up sleeping in an extra hour and skipping the gym. This morning I woke up to tight hip flexors which led to some lower back pain. I so wanted to roll over and skip another day. But I can't let the day to day stuff derail me. I got up and hit the gym doing upper body and no cardio (except an easy warmup).
Today was just weights. Chest, Triceps and Shoulders. No cardio. From time to time I get super tight hip flexors and this is the week. Started the other day and almost skipped the gym today. Lots of trigger point therapy the next few days. pic.twitter.com/SyIS8fJ4qV
— Joel McKenna (@the17thman) March 3, 2022
The Workout:
10 Minute Warm Up (should have done more stretching)
5 Sets of the following
Incline BB Bench Press
Superset: DB Chest Flys / DB Skullcrushers
Seated Machine Chest Press
Seated DB Overhead Press
Superset: Tricep Pushdowns / Face Pulls
Superset: DB Front Raise / DB Lat Raise
When I came home I did some trigger point rolling. I'm going to stretch while at work today when I can and I have a 10 minute Yoga Hip Opening Routine to do tonight. I'm most likely going to rest tomorrow and hope by the weekend I'm ready to take on some running again.
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