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 - Back with Total Gym

I've been struggling with a bit of a soar throat and tiredness the last few days so I took it easy. I'm starting to feel a bit better but not at 100% yet. It was time to get in the gym and get back at her...

• Total Gym - Seated Wide Row (Various Positions).
• Total Gym - Seated Narrow Row (Various Positions).
• Total Gym - Pull Downs (Lying on Back).
• Abs: Side Twists in forward position with Total Gym.
• Misc. Stretching.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - Back in Home Gym

Winter is a bit of a downer, it's dark at around 4pm and my body just wants to really do nothing except take it easy. Even so, you just have to get yourself in the gym and at least do something. I generally put on a few pounds in the winter but the key is to not let it get out of hand, so when spring comes along it only takes a bit to shed the few pounds gained over the winter.

My main goal is to try and keep the muscle on so my metabolism stays higher - so if I only have the energy for weights and not cardio then I just do weights that day! Today was one of those days!

• Elliptical - I looked at it for 10 seconds!
• Wide Chin-ups with pulley bar.
• Narrow Chin-ups with pulley bar.
• Seated Rows with pulley bar.
• Abs: Misc Abs - Crunches and Leg Raises.
• Misc. Stretching

Total workout time: About 45 minutes.

What a difference a week can make!

I say this not so much in fitness terms but more in how I feel about working out or really just doing anything. The weather here in the Vancouver Canada area is turning very wintery all of a sudden and that combined with me being in Maui not even a week ago is a bit of a drastic change for me... I think many people find a lack of drive or motivation in the Winter months and I am no exception!

To make my point, the following two photos I shot consecutively on my iPhone about a week apart from each other:

I'm not making excuses, I did do a workout today and I felt pretty good doing it. I got in some Elliptical as my warmup and I did some Back on the trusty Total Gym along with some lower body stretching. About an hour or so in all.

I snapped a quick photo of the Post Maui Abs thinking that they may not make it onto the blog but they turned out OK. Maybe all the Maui drinking and eating didn't take as much of a toll on me as I thought!

Daily Workout - Back and Shoulders in Fitness World

I went to Fitness World with my wife today, we are both trying to get some final workouts in before we head off to Hawaii!!! It has been a hard month for me, traveling a bit, several parties to attend and now all this Halloween candy around. I could have done better as far as leaning up but I did manage to put on some muscle over the last month...

Today we did Back and Shoulder, it's nice to use other equipment than what I have in my home gym for a change up!

• Back - Wide Pull Downs with Universal Machine.
• Back - Narrow Pull Downs with Universal Machine.
• Back - Seated Rows with Universal Machine.
• Shoulders - Military press with Universal Machine.
• Shoulders - Dumbbell Raises (Front, Side, Behind).
• Shoulders - Upright Rows with Universal Machine.
• Shoulders - Shrugs with Universal Machine and Dumbbells.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.