For any fitness goal to be reached, a diet alone wouldn’t be enough. To supplement a strong diet, you need to have a strong workout regimen as well. As I have discussed previously, I’ve found the perfect gym for me (Lifetime), and a great app to help me organize my workouts (Strong app). I’ve always been the type of person who did better when working out with someone than working out alone. Also, I wouldn’t pretend that I know everything there is to know about how to properly workout. So I wanted to look for help.
To start, I began looking at different routines that I though would best work for me. There are a million and one workout videos, websites, and trainers on the internet. It’s not easy to decipher which one works best for you. Luckily for me, my brother Mike, has been working as a physical trainer, so I had someone ready to help me figure out what would be best for me.
The routine would be simple and easy to manage. Going to the gym every day can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Sometimes you just don’t feel up to it or you need time to recover, other times life just gets in the way. This routine would see that you go 4-5 times per week.
The first part of my routine would be a day dedicated to chest, triceps, and calves. For this routine you would do three sets of each of the following: Incline bench press (dumbbell), bench press (barbell), bench press (dumbbell), triceps dip, triceps pushdown, seated calf raise, standing calf raise.
One issue that I would have, is that I would concern myself more with the amount of weight I was lifting, rather than making sure I was doing the exercise properly. The first time back working out at the gym in a while was eye-opening because of how my form was so off during the exercises. I was more worried about the weight than I was about properly executing. That was the best advice I received from Mike, “You can’t concern yourself with how much weight you lift until you one hundred percent have your form down. Otherwise you’re not accomplishing anything, and you will get hurt.”
This week I will update with the other phases of the routine in addition to an update about healthy meals for a diet.
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