Today at the gym, I did a little more benching. Regular barbell presses on a bench. I lifted 75 lbs for three sets and 10 reps each. Yes, I had a spotter. Everytime I bench, I’m gonna have a spotter, just to be safe and be careful. I used to disagree with benching, now I’m thinking it’s good. After today, lifting 75 lbs bench, I can feel the pump in my chest and it has gotten a little bigger, just a tiny bit. If I keep doing benching and various chest workouts throughout the summer, I could look like a mid-card wrestler or a welterweight boxer in no time.

As for certain rumours of me wanting to become a model, I didn’t exactly say that. I said if the opportunity came up and if many people want me to do it, maybe I’ll think about going for it but for now, my goal is hopefully wanting to get into some kind of physical sport. I never played sports in high school for my own reasons. Now that I can do anything physical I want…I’ll want to take up martial arts, boxing or wrestling…whatever I can take.

There is a martial arts school in Greenwich, and I plan to look into it soon. I’ll give them a call this week and find out the pricing. I feel that I’m strong enough to get into martial arts, I think.

Another one of my goals is to change my weekly workout program around ’cause you don’t want to be doing the same exercises all the time. I’m slowly trying to avoid the weight lifting machines, and going to dumbells/barbell stuff more often. I would avoid the lat pull down machine and do only pull ups for lats. Pull ups is a powerful workout for your back. I do those all the time at home too with the chin up bar.

I didn’t ask the gym owner about percentage bodyfat yet, ’cause he was busy with other things, training other people so I didn’t want to bother him. I’ll talk to him about that stuff next time whenever it’s not busy there. I could avoid the local gym too, but the only reason I go is because the subscription is cheap, $39 a month. Can’t say no to that. There are ways to get jacked without even going to the gym. All you need is a set of dumbells and your own bench press, and wallah, there’s your home gym. I go to the gym ’cause I don’t have my own barbell sets yet which I plan to start collecting in the future.

My blog site has been slow, been doing other things. I’ll have another busy weekend this week ’cause of work and I have to attend a local Benefit event this Sunday, so I will try to blog as much as I can and catch up with the news I’ve been missing.

Kev

Summer is the time when you need to set goals of what you want to achieve for the next three months.

Here are mine:

• Find out how much percentage bodyfat I have: This is something I haven’t learned yet and will soon. Next time I go to the gym which will be tomorrow, I’ll ask the trainer/owner of the place to teach me how. It’s probably pretty simple. Anybody out there is welcome to teach me how in this blog. I shouldn’t be that bad.
• Need to tan more and get darker skin: A reader here is right that I could be a little darker to show more muscle definition. I would tan the natural way by laying under the sun and would avoid those electronic tanning bed things at the tanning salons. The tanning beds are dangerous and could kill you I’ve read. You can get a good natural tan just by laying under the sun. I’ll be doing some reading about this as well.
• Try to improve the chest pecs all around, upper and lower: I’ll be doing more benching and more dumbell decline flies. Incline dumbell presses and dips helps too. Also, push ups is a very important pecs exercise. I’m always doing pushups at home all the time.
• Avoid cardio machines in the gym, do more outside cardio: In my opinion, the gym is possibly the worst places to do cardio in. Too noisy, and people bothering ya when they want to talk to you about fun things. It’s better doing cardio outside with the fresh air, the sun and more peaceful concentration for yourself. For outside cardio, I like bike riding and light jogging. Hopefully I’ll do more swimming too.

I can think of more but these are the top 5.

Kev