Started out with twenty fairly hard minutes on an elliptical trainer, then moved to the workout. This one took us over one and a half hours, which is a little longer than it usually does. Need to pick it up a little next time.

Bench press: 3 sets, 35 lbs (115 lbs total) (+10 from last week)
Incline press: 2 sets, 20 lbs (85 lbs total)
Dumbell press: 2 sets, 35 lbs (70 lbs total) (+10)
Inline dumbell press: 2 sets, 30 lbs (60 lbs total)
Seated flies: 2 sets, 80 lbs

The incline press was a little difficult for me, but I’m going to step up to 35s next time on the incline dumbell. Huh. Must mean that my form is improving on the dumbells. I’d kicked the bench press up from last week, this was the first time I’d done 3 sets of the 35s and it felt pretty damn good. Still reached failure about 4 reps before the end of the seated flies - couldn’t quite slam ‘em together. That’s fine, especially since this weight is 10 lbs more than last week’s.

Medial shoulder raise: 3 sets, 15 lbs (30 lbs total) (+10)
Dumbell shoulder press: 2 sets, 25 lbs (50 lbs total) (+10)
Anterior shoulder raise: 2 sets, 12.5 lbs (25 lbs total)

Well, there was supposed to be a hammer strength machine in there, but the two times I tried it I could feel my back tweak a little, so I decided to give it a miss. If its still bugging me on Wednesday, I’ll ask a trainer for advice. The dumbells were another story though. I was able to do 20 reps on my last set of the anterior raises. Even though the 12.5s felt heavy, I need to do 15s next time.

Tricep pulldowns - V grip: 3 sets, 90 lbs (+10)
Tricep pulldowns - rope: 2 sets, 45 lbs
Tricep kickbacks - rope: 2 sets, 20 lbs

Whoo! Tricep failure is back. I should note that these are cage weights - because of the pully, we’re effectively lifting about half those measurements. Anyway, this was a great workout. Even so, the rope pulldowns were a little easy at first, so I’m going to go ahead and move up to 50lbs next time. Reached failure in my chest and with my triceps, and came really close to it with the shoulders. Strength is good.

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