Monday night bible study!

Monday night saw the start of my Winter 2007/Spring training cycle. One of the benefits of Southern California climate is that the winter is actually a really good season to train in, whereas conversely during the summer it’s just too hot. It’s been a long time since I have seen the inside of a gym and lifted any weights, apart from those I was told to do during my PT. I decided to go “home-style” and scored a good deal on a bench and rack and picked up some weights locally as well so I now have a mini gym in my garage. I recent trip to Barnes & Noble uncovered a great book (click on the book and you can read it on Google Books) that contains all of the exercises that I think I need to work things in the upper, mid and lower range and after reading through the various variations I have come up with what feels like a good all round workout, additionally I also have a medicine ball which I throw around and some small cones; these are used for jumping over and around to work out my core.

I’ll not bore you (or embarrass myself) with the reps, sets and weights but the exercises are:

• Midsection: reverse woodchop, swiss-ball weighted crunch, a “Good-Morning”
• Chest & Upper Back: bench press, incline bench press, pronated bent-over row, supinated bent-over row, pullover
• Shoulders & Arms: military press, lying tricep extension, standing curl
• Lower Body: Back squat, lunge, step up, side step up, standing calf raise
  

As it was my first session in a long time, I paced myself but I still managed to feel it this morning!