Thursday, 22 September 2011

Day 4-Chest, Shoulders, Triceps and abs

Just been to  the YMCA today for my weights session, this is what i did:
  1. Chest-Bench PressBB, Chest FlyesDB, PressupsBW.
  2. Shoulders- Arnold pressesDB, shoulder pressRM and Side RaisesDB
  3. Triceps-Dip machineRM, Tricep kickbackDB and cross legged floor dipsBW.
  4. ABS-25 of the following-crunches, situps, situps with straight leg, bicycle crunches, knees in and out, V sit ups, side bridge and side crunch.
I also did an interval session at the beginning for 20 minutes consisting of 1minute of 70% effort followed by 30 seconds of 90% effort and so on and ended up burning about 215 calories so not bad for the time. I try and do at least 3 cardio sessions a week to burn some of the fat off but just weight training alone will burn calories.

One of the main reasons i want to gain some more muscle is that the more muscle you have and the more leaner you are then the more calories you will burn per day. So the quicker i can build some more muscle the faster my metabalism will be therefore i will get my fat% down much quicker than if i was just to do cardio sessions only.

TIP of the DAY: If you havnt already got tricep kickbacks in your arms routine then include it in. Its great for developing the triceps particulary in the upper area. make sure to not swing your arms and use your tricep muscle to control the movement throughout.

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