Daily Workout - Shoulders and Arms with Total Gym

OK, it's official, I'm back on a roll and feeling good again. I still need to regain some strength and as I found out today "my Cardio". I have been putting off the Cardio for a while during December, no time and poor health has made it hard. Today I did a quick 10 minutes and man was I tired! Granted I pack in about 200 calories burned in the short 10 minutes.

Today I got a good Shoulders and Arms workout in and even did some Stretching and Cardio!

Total Gym - Seated Shoulder Press.

Total Gym - Reverse Shoulder Raises (Lying on Back Upside-down).

Total Gym - Seated Shoulder Raises (Front to Back).

Total Gym - Front Seated Shoulder Raises.

Barbells - Shrugs.

Biceps: Lying Down Curls with Total Gym. (3 Sets with an increase in the incline each time)

Barbell Curls - (2 sets)

Triceps: Seated Overhead Extension with the Total Gym.

Triceps: Lying Down Extension with the Total Gym.

Triceps: Rear Extension with the Total Gym.

Abs: Side twists on Total Gym facing forward..

Misc. Stretching.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - I'm Still Alive!

I'm still alive! I was really sick for a while, every time I thought I was getting better I got worse just after! Well it's been a few days and I'm definitely much better now - enough to do a Chest and Back workout on my Total Gym. The only good part about being deathly ill over the holiday season is that I didn't have a big appetite and so even with all the great food hanging around I still managed to keep off the Christmas pounds.

I have missed a couple of weeks of workouts and so I imagine it will take a couple of weeks to get back my strength... I plan to keep my next few weeks worth of workouts to high rep low weight routines and then follow it up with a couple weeks of heavy weight low rep routines.

• Total Gym - Iron Cross (Lying on Back).
• Total Gym - Seated Bench Press.
• Total Gym - Seated Flys.
• Pushups.
• Total Gym - Seated Wide Row (Various Positions).
• Total Gym - Seated Narrow Row (Various Positions).
• Total Gym - Pull Downs (Lying on Back).
• Total Gym - Abs: Seated Side Twists.
• Misc. Stretching.

Total workout time: About 45 minutes.

Daily Workout - Chest - Home Gym - Cold & Flu Season

This year has been a tuff one for colds and flues in our family. The kids have brought home pretty much every single virus and cold from school you can imagine. They seem to not get effected too badly, but my poor wife has been getting nailed hard by them... And for me, I have faired pretty well so far, but lately they seem to be creeping up on me and doing a bit more damage. Today I feel another one coming on but I got into the gym anyways. Tomorrow it may get worse and I may have to rest it out. 

• Bench Press with Dumbbells.
• Incline Dumbbell Flies.
• 3 Stage Pushups: Planche, Extended, and Regular.
• Abs: 100 Crunches.
• Misc. Stretching.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - When it gets Busy

It's that time of year again when things get so busy, with all the  shopping, kids events, social gatherings and who knows what else. And then there is all the food and drink and lack of exercise...

Don't get too worried about it because January 1st is almost here too so what ever bad stuff you do now you can fix then. But just remember the worse you are now the better you are going to have to be in the new year :)

I try to do what I can and remember all the hard work I have been doing all year long. But, I still like to enjoy all the fun this time of year brings, and it's hard to do if you can't eat anything or don't have time cause you're in the gym all the time.

Over the last 4 days I did manage to get into the Gym a couple of times and did some Total Gym routines covering my Cardio, Shoulders, Arms and Abs. And I may even just get another one in today?!

Daily Workout - Chest in Home Gym with Total Gym

Back to the Total Gym cycle. It's a nice change! Took my time today but got it done...

• Warmup: Eliptical for 12 minutes.
• Bench Press with Total Gym.
• Flies with Total Gym.
• Forward Arm Raise Flies with Total Gym.
• 3 Stage Pushups: Planche, Extended, and Regular.
• Abs: Seated side twists with Total Gym.
• Misc. Lower Body Stretching.

Total workout time: About 1hour.