Week 3: Shoulders & Arms

Today I completed day 3 of the week 3 workout shoulders and arms. Instead of performing the workout at home as I usually do, I decided to go to a gym. My rational for this was that I felt as though it would give me the opportunity to really push myself. At home, I do not have a wide variety of weights to choose from which can limit my progress. Like many of you out there I am unable to simply go out there and purchase a set of quality dumbbells so I am forced to improvise as best as I can. Currently, the heaviest weights I have are a couple 30 pound dumbbells that I can break down as needed. Since the heaviest I can go is 30 pounds, with workouts such as the lawnmowers that I am able to lift up to 60 pounds I am limited. Usually, I deal with this issue by performing more repetition. Anyway, by going to the gym I was able to use heavier weights on exercises such as shoulder presses. This really intensified the entire workout. Since I expended more energy on exercises that I chose to increase the weight, it also intensified all the exercises I did subsequently.

I feel as though my body is beginning to get used to the workouts because even though the intensity of the workouts are still quite high, I can tell that things have began to get slightly easier. After I complete week 3, the program will go into the recovery week thereafter I will enter phase 2 in which I believe the idea of muscle confusion will take place.