Back to the Gym
So back in June I decided that it was long enough and needed to get my fat ass back into the gym. I also signed up to fight MMA in October, so this was a good kickstart. I started at about a chubby 250lbs. I hadn’t been to the gym really in a couple of years and it showed the first week. I could hardly lift much and everything was sore. It sucked.
After about 2 weeks of hard cardio and medium weights, I thought it was time to step it up and get a system going. I have always tried to mix it up about every month or so on routines. I do a 4 day gym routine every week. They are Monday thru Thursday, since I have the monkeys on the weekends. First day is Legs, second is back, third is chest, and fourth is an all around. I have currently added a 5th day, which is basically an all around pump day and some weighted stretching movements to keep flexibility up. Legs is your basic deadlifts, squats, leg press, and various machines. Back is rows, pulldowns, machine rows, and the usual. Chest is various dumbbell presses and machines. All around days are just kinda a bit of everything. I had a friend once drop a barball on his chest and cracked a lot of ribs so unless I have a person to spot that I trust, I tend to stay away from them for chest workouts. Most of my sets are heavy weight X 8-10reps and work down in weights. For instance, chest press (#110*8, 110*8, 90*8, 90*8, 80*8). I like to stretch it out until I can hardly move the weights. Then sets are done. Rest. Next movement.
So far this has gone pretty good. I went from a dumbbell bench of #65 (scary) the first week (This is for the first set of reps) and am now upto #110-#120 in about 8-10 weeks. This is also the same for the rest of the gamut.
Weight went fron #250 down to #238 the first month. This was kinda nice. I felt the difference. Since increasing the lifting weight volume, my weight is now back upto about #255-258. I have also upped my caloric intake to help with the workouts and strain.
So we will see how this goes. I try to get in 8 gym hrs and about 4 hrs doing mma workouts. It’s straining but its fun.
