You can never know too much, you can never be your own coach and that is enough. The fitness industry is always evolving, new information that may either be true or not comes out everyday. The basics remain the same, diet and exercise. The combination, the fads, the products change all the time.
I was a guest at Impala Gym in Nairobi today. I trained with one of the instructors, Alex. I hoped I sounded confident when I said..."Today is upper body day..." I'm not ripped, so probably he looked and me and laughed on the inside. But Mr. Alex did not give me a sissy workout. My home gym lacks some lifting equipment that Impala gym has, and using them challenged me. I would only insist on my own workouts if the instructor gives me sissy workouts, I need to feel challenged. If you ever come across my blog, Thank you. I learnt a lot.
Unfortunately I did not take a photo or record this at all but here is the exercise I learnt today that really challenged me. For lack of a better term, I will call it lying military press. It is the most difficult shoulder exercise I have done in a long time. The weights needed are so light.
Lie face down on a bench. Make sure your head and shoulders are over the end of the bench. Grasp a pair of really light dumbbells. Have your legs at a 90 degree angle at the knee. Hold the dumbbells palm down in military press starting position, do the military press, face up, while at the same time lifting your legs of the bench on the upwards motion and vice versa. This had me grunting for three sets of very pathetic reps with what I consider sissy weights....definitely to be repeated on shoulder days.
I also learnt that it doesn't have to hurt for it to be effective. I should not feel like I didn't work out if the next day I don't get DOMS as long as I challenged myself. (Thanks Dr. Posa!)
Have an goodnight everyone and an active day tomorrow. It's cardio for me. I'm in need of a good run but will see what the day brings.
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