Recovery and Reflection

So up until now I had been using isolation during my training. Focussing my training on a specific muscle group for each gym session. Having a back and biceps day for instance.

To work my way up to the 300 I decided it was worthwhile to experiment with a different style of training, for me any way. Following Mark Twight's theory that following an intense exercise with another using a different muscle group forces the body to adapt quickly changing situations, strengthening cardiovascular fitness immensely. I probably didn't quite word that right but the gist is there.

Now following my failed attempt earlier this week I suffered some rather intense DOMS. Having experienced this many times in the past by delaying and postponing my leg workouts and then thrashing myself as punishment, I knew this was a relatively normal phenomena. However, I'd never experienced it quite this badly and as a result of the deadlifts (remember 50x60kg)it was located beside my spine.

This left me with the inability to bend over without pain for a couple of days and made sleeping rather difficult. Following this experience I have resolved to train my back with longer sets of relatively heavy weights.

Also, I will do my leg workouts more often.

As a side note, and somewhat related to my general interest in fitness and conditioning, I recently noticed my bench press technique was rather lacking. I was not following the complete range of motion and began the action with the barbell maybe 15cm above my chest. It is my understanding that the initial movement involves the clavicular head of the pectoralis major (preceding the tricep and the anterior deltoid). This, as a result has left this portion of the muscle rather week and I have decided the correct course of action is only to rebuild my bench from 40kg back up to my previous maximum weight of around 70kg.

I'm kinda hopeful that this is gonna help with increasing my rather stubborn bench maximum

thanks for reading

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