Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Fitness Log - Back - Week 5


Deadlift - previous: 70kg. now: 72.5kg
Reps: 5 5 5 (next time do 75 straight)
Think my grip strength is failing me a bit, for each rep from 2nd set onwards I had to lower the weight very quickly as I felt like I was going to drop the weight. On the 3rd set I was dropping the weight a little too hard and the bastard gym staff came to scold me in a rude way. What a bitch. Anyway, have to work on controlling my downwards motion more which will work my back more anyway. Thus will try to stay at 75 next time! Or drop to 72.5 for the last set when I'm tired. 

Crunches 
Reps : 70
I hit 70 fairly easily today, think I can do more, or maybe add a different abs exercise with some resistance.

Lat pull downs - previous 50kg, now 50kg
Reps: 6 6 5

Struggled a bit with this exercise, but I was focusing hard on really pulling my elbows down and back and working the lats fully. I have to remind myself that I'm working out more for a body than to pull heavy weights, thus I have to execute with strict form, rather than keep pushing progression in weight. Will stay at 50kg for this exercise.

One-handed bent DB rows - 15kg 
Reps: 6 6 6
I'm not sure how effective this exercise is in working my back... feels like the strain is on my shoulders. Think I need to work on the form, so will stay at 15kg and mastering the form before increasing weight (does feel like I can go up more weight)

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I kinda dropped chinups because i am unable to do them after the deadlift. Quite bad, I want to be able to do more chinups as I find they work the back really well. I may throw them in with my shoulder routine tomorrow, we'll see how. Maybe once I can do 10 chinups I can work it back into my back routine.

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