Well, its Friday, its lunchtime, and you know what that means … its upper body workout time! Anyway, today I worked out with Jason, which was fun. Did pretty much the same routine as last week, with a few variations. After starting out with five minutes on the elliptical to warm up a touch, we moved to the Hammer Strength machines:

High row - 8/6/6 reps of 220 lbs
Wide grip bench - 8/6/6 reps of 180 lbs
Shoulder press - 8/6/4 reps of 100 lbs
Bicep curls - 8/6/4 reps of 75 lbs
Dips - 10/8 reps, assisted by 50 lbs
Tricep pushdowns - 4 reps, 70 lbs
Pull ups - 10/8 reps, assisted by 80 lbs
Crunches - 1 set of 50 left, 50 centered, 50 right
Captains chair (straight leg) - 3 sets of 10
Flies - 10/8/4 reps of 135 lbs
Medial shoulder raises - 8/6/4 reps of 40 lbs
Crunches - 1 set of 50 left, 50 centered, 50 right
Captains chair (straight leg) - 2 sets of 20

I need to watch myself. I hadn’t done the wide grip bench before, and I was definately feeling very pessimistic about it at the weight that Jason had set up - turns out, I did just fine. Its as if I didn’t know (or believe in) my own strength. Since I started out so out of shape, and have had to work up from very light weights, seeing a couple of 45s on each side still makes me feel like I’m in the wrong place somehow - that I’m going to just strain and fail to move it an inch - even when its an appropriate weight. I think that that attitude held me back the last time I was trying to get serious about building muscle, and I don’t want to let it happen again.

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