NEXT PHASE STARTS TODAY!!!
Today, I moved on to the Bulk Phase of the Body Beast program. In this program, each routine focuses on one muscle group. Today, Chest was up. I used my worksheets from the Build Phase as a reference point for my starting weights. I didn't want to go too heavy or too light.
Starting with a Super Set was tough. This is the same Super Set that is used in Build: Chest & Tris. The last time I did it there, the 25-22kgs dumbbells were too heavy for the Drop Set. So, I dropped down to 22kgs and 19.5kgs. The notation is "Lmt" which stands for "Limit". I will have to stay at this weight for a few rounds until I get stronger. I started to feel the Force Set by the third set. I was totally dying by the fifth set, almost broke. In the Progressive Set up, the Middle and Heavy weights took me to my limit again. On down, the Middle set was brutal, so much so that I had to take a little extra time before the light set which I was able to crush a little. There is an "R" between certain sets. That means I took some extra Rest before doing the set. For the Combo Set, I went a lot lighter than I thought I should, but it ended up being the right weight. Anything heavier would have been too much, I think. And for the Multi Set, the Push-Ups were really tough, but I got into them. That means that the first few reps were about 1/3 range of motion, but I was able to work all the way down to the bottom by the last rep. The other two moves were no problem. I even picked up my feet on the Russian Twist.
For at least the first round, I'm going to use Beast: Abs as my core routine. It felt good today, so I blasted it off. I was able to crush all the moves, except the Bucket Drops. I couldn't do the Push-Ups for that one, so I just stayed in plank and did the twist. On a few reps, I did drop down a bit, but just to get more twist.
Capped everything off with a nice Flow series.
In the end, I burned a good 605 kcal. It was a good blasting of my Chest.
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