Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Fitness Log #2 - Arms - Week 1


Straight Barbell Bicep Curls - 27.5kg (stay)
changed to EZ Bar Bicep Curls - 17.5kg (up)
Reps: 6, 6, 6
Experienced pain in my wrist in the first set of my straight barbell curls... so decided to go to EZ bar. Not sure how to manage this - the gym I normally go to doesn't have EZ bar. Damn. Will try straight bar again next time, but do some good stretching of my wrist/forearm first.

DB tricep curls - 15kg (up)
Reps: 6 6 6
Kind of messed this up by mistakenly doing it one-handed... then realized it was too difficult. It's two-handed! Ok. Will up this weight next time.

Alternate DB bicep curls - 15kg (stay)
Reps: 6 6 6
Will up the reps to all 7s next time, as I feel I still need more work on my form before progressing on the weight. No point cheating myself.

Narrow Grip Bench Press - 40kg (up)
Reps: 6 6 6 
A new exercise, so I started light as I'm not sure how heavy I could go. Had little difficulty with this, so will increase to 42.5 next time.

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Overall I feel arms day don't really feel very fulfilling, probably because of the nagging soreness/pain in my left wrist/forearm. I think I will add a stretching/conditioning exercise at the start of my arms day workout session, to ease my wrist into the workout. 

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