Week 1: Day 1: The First Day Back

So I'll be entirely honest here

I haven't worked out in a LONG time.

Like 6 months at least, I haven't even so much as gone a week and actually done pushups every day.

So I think it's time to start with the basics again.

Well, maybe a bit of 'accelerated' basics, you could say.

To cut to the chase, I'm planning on doing a full Push, Pull, Leg workout regime, eventually increasing in intensity and in sophistication.

And today was Day 1, so let's take a look at my BEFORE pics. (Taken with my WONDERFUL phone camera)

So this is how we're starting out (Don't mind the whiteness, don't worry, I know). I'd say I'm not in a TERRIBLE spot right now, it's more of just getting to a GREAT spot eventually.

As mentioned before, it was an all so exciting Day 1, aka Push Day.

Here was the workout of the day:

• Bench Press: 8reps/3sets (Maxed at 80lbs today)
• Pec Deck: 8/3 (65lbs)
• Low Flys: 8/3 (20lbs on each side)
• Pushdown Rope Thingy: 8/3 (15lbs)
• Overhead Dumbell Press: 8/3 (15lbs)
• Tricep Dumbell Press: 8/3 (20)
• 1 Mile Run
• 25 Inclined Sit-ups with a 10lbs weight
• 10 Inclined Sit-ups with a 25lbs weight

Overall, not too bad. I wasn't aiming to push myself or anything too wonky for the first day, for I want to get started on the right foot, and not tear a ligament or anything.

I'd like to go over a few things however:

1. Running a Mile without stopping after not running for a very long time is extremely difficult.
2. Sit-ups are easy until they're not
3. Pushdown looks so easy until you start doing it, then you have to decrease the weight every repetition.
4. They didn't have the Pec Deck I wanted, but I'm not sure what the name of it actually was so that's my placeholder for the time being.

I'm honestly pretty proud of this as a starting point. My goals are first to get back up to where I was before I stopped working out, and here are those numbers:

• Bench Press: 8reps/3sets (120lbs)
• Pec Deck: 8/3 (85lbs)
• Low Flys: 8/3 (30lbs on each side)
• Pushdown Rope Thingy: 8/3 (25lbs)
• Overhead Dumbell Press: 8/3 (25lbs)
• Tricep Dumbell Press: This one replaced my tricep extensions, which I was upwards of 70lbs with.

So a goal is a goal, and I'm hoping to achieve those specific ones in the next month and a half, working out my Pushing one a week on Mondays.

Anywho, I don't have much else to say this week, but thank you for showing your beautiful face:)

- Kyle