Week Six

Week six is now in the bag and another three workouts under my belt this week.

Neil recommended to me that I have a couple of blowout days and forget about the training but I think I'll hold off on that, I can't seem to tear myself away from the gym!

As far as my workouts go, I have ditched the smith machine in favour of the new rack they have at my gym. I started on Tuesday night with 65kg on the squats but on't think my form was that great. However my hamstrings were given a right seeing to, I've never had DOMS from the smith but I've only just recovered now from it after proper squats! I went back this morning and managed to do 4x8 with 80kg, much better form too, so I was really happy with that considering it's only 20kg off my smith squat weight.

I'm also doing a barbell press now instead of using dumbells, the first time I've ever done these as well and they seem to be going ok, although I'm still only on a total of about 45kg but I'm sure in time the weight will come.

In fact, I was so into my workout this morning that I came away feeling really good about myself. It only took me five hours to realise that I'd forgotten to do bent over rows! I still managed to get a dumbell shoulder press, lat pulldows and deadlifts in there as well but thinking I had a spare set to do I went for bicep curls instead of BOR's. Just totally forgot about them!

I'll have a few beers tonight and maybe tomorrow as well, I'll take advice given to me by Neil on board and rather than a whole blowout weekend maybe I'll just be carefree and eat a bit more than I usually would.

Two weeks to go until my measurements, will be interesting to see how I've done, although looking at some progress pics from people on the MH boards, I can tell it's going to take months and not weeks to get to where I want, now I fully appreciate that it's given me the motivation to carry it on over Christmas.