You sure know you've had a break from gym when you stay super sore all week. But its a great feeling to feel the aches and tiredness from a good workout. You get the satisfaction of knowing you've put in the effort which hopefully will lead to some muscle growth. I haven't got any comp plans right now so I'm just training to train, but will decide around June to see if I'm happy with my gains before competing. There's plenty later in the year and I'm no rush to diet! weighing 57.5kg and feeling lean (on a good day!). Just to put things in perspective with the story I have about Gina Aliotti. Gina and I are the same height but she's 58kg on stage! now that girl has muscle.
Since returning to training I'm continuing to train each bodypart twice a week, which is pretty strenuos. Day 1, its chest, delts, tri. Day 2. Legs, Back, Biceps (although haven't done biceps for a while as I got elbow problem so I can't actually put too much stress in the curl position). Day 3: rest. Day 4: repeat day 1. Day 5: repeat day 2. Day 6 and 7 rest. On Day 1 and 2 my weights are heavy and since I'm trying to train maximally to stimulate the muscle rather than wearing it out I only do 2 exercises, 8-10 reps and 3 sets of each. Initially I found combing the chest and delts really tough to train together but I'm finding that I love the pump I get across my upper body and I feel I'm growing. Since triceps are involved in the chest and shoulder exercises I only do 2 tricep exercises to build mass. Not that I need much bigger triceps! The second chest/shoulder day I train at 80% and try not to push too hard and do more shaping exercises such as flyes and higher rep lateral raises.
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