For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing a new shoulder workout that I learned. It’s called the Arnold Dumbbell Press. Yes, it’s one of the many workouts that Arnold Schwarzenegger created himself back in his bodybuilding days. Arnold also teaches you this workout in his “Modern Bodybuilding Encyclopedia” which is where I learned it from. You can either do this workout seated or standing. It’s a great workout, a favorite of mine for shoulders. It’s brutal and you’ll really feel the burn pretty hard. I only used 20 lb dumbbells for this exercise because there is a lot of power with the twisting and raising the dumbbells high in the air. Using heavier weights could get yourself injured, so you must use the right weight that you can handle. If you ever go to the gym and if you haven’t tried this yet, you should learn it. It feels  really good and works the shoulder. I’ve been told this is the best workout for shoulders. It’s really easy to do.

Kev

Over the week, I have came up with a new plan to improve my chest. I think what my problem is, I did push ups pretty much all the time. From this point on, I think I’ll do push ups for once a week. I’ll do push ups on the day I train my chest before I do dumbbell presses or whatever. That’ll be the only day of the week, I’ll do chest on. Give the chest some time to rest and heal for the rest of the week. Maybe I’ll get an improvement in a month or two. I’ll see what that does. I’ll post a new shirtless progress pic at the end of November before Winter.

Kev

So I posted my latest progress pic at Scooby’s Workshop, just to see what kind of feedback I get from there for the hell of it. So far the feedback there, is surprisingly positive as well.

I love this comment here:

Deffo need to stick to a diet as your half way there on the abdominals…. alot of people struggle to get to this stage… but the stage your at now you can easily get a nice set of abs… just eat well and do a lot of crunches for upper abdominals and leg pull ups for lower abdominals 🙂 good luck.

I just loved it when he said that a lot of people struggle to get visible abs, which is very true. There are even skinny guys out there who have trouble getting abs and not making them visible. Why is this? Not good enough eating and not enough cardio probably. If you want to get a washboard belly, like I said before, it takes three things. 1) Good nutrition 2) doing your crunches and 3) plenty of cardio (running, jogging, walking, jump roping, swimming, biking, etc.)

I get a lot of nice comments on my abs, my arms, shoulders, etc. People don’t say much about my chest if you notice, which I’ll admit, I still need work on the chest pecs. I’m donig the best I can on the chest. The chest is probably the most difficult and challenging thing to grow. It’ll take some time, but I’ll get there. I’ll look like a tough guy soon enough.

Getting visible abs is real easy. Whenever I get a good all around tough guy physique in the future, maybe the haters will think twice before writing something nasty to me online? LOL.

Fitness is an amazing ride and I’m enjoying it a lot! It’s my blood!

Kev