Daily Workout - Chest - Home Gym

My legs are really soar today from my last leg workout, not doing a leg workout for a while really showed! So today I passed on my Elliptical warmup to let my legs recuperate a bit. I did get a nice Chest workout in however and finished up with some extra Abs.

• Warmup: Elliptical.
• Bench Press with Smith Machine.
• Incline Dumbbell Press Flies.
• 3 Stage Pushups: Planche, Extended, and Regular.
• Abs: Mixed Crunches and Leg Raises.
• Misc. Stretching.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - Back to Legs in Home Gym

I finally got a Leg workout in! When I get busy and don't have as much time for my workouts, I tend to drop legs. I do this mainly because my legs build muscle very easily and I also get a decent leg workout from all the Elliptical that I do during my warmups... So today I actually did a full-fledged legt workout :)

• Elliptical Warmup - 12 Minutes.
• Squats with Smith Machine.
• Calf Raises with Smith Machine.
• Leg Extensions with Leg Extension attachment.
• Leg Curls with Leg Curl attachment.
• Misc. lower body stretching.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - Upper Body with Total Gym

I am definitely pushing through a plateau! It has been really hard lately doing my workouts and being motivated, I have felt tired and week but I have done my best to get into the gym as much as I can. I have been extra busy with work and even though my work is not physical it is fairly mental. A big part of working out is the mental part, so it makes sense that I have been struggling.

I'm still managing to do some maintenance workouts while I get through this phase. Yesterday I got a Chest and Back workout in on my Total Gym and today I got a Shoulders and Arms workout in again with the Total Gym. Both days I did some Abs but I didn't do any dedicated Cardio. Instead I made sure to get my heart rate up using the Total Gym which is easy to do. Both workouts took about 1 hour each.

Daily Workout - Arms Home Gym

I did another late evening workout again - worked all day... I have had some tendon pain in my right bicep for some time that doesn't want to go away, I had a similar pain in my left arm but more in the upper forearm and it lasted for several months but now it feel great. It's amazing how one muscle can interfere with your workout so much.

The only way I know to overcome this is to start out really light until the muscle loosens up and then make sure not to overwork it which can be hard because once it warms up it usually feels prety good. You'll pay for it later if you go to heavy!

• 10 Minutes Elliptical.
• Biceps: Dumbbell Curls Standing - Starting light - Five sets.
• Triceps: Seated Overhead Single Dumbbell Extensions.
• Triceps: Pull Downs with Curl Bar.
• Abs: Crunches and Leg Raises.

 Total workout time: About 1 hour.

Daily Workout - Shoulders in Home Gym

I almost didn't make into the gym tonight. I've been really busy working on a video editing project and it seems to be an all day kind of thing... Tonight I had to use the old "trick myself into a workout" - I tell myself I'm only going to do a really quick warm up and maybe just a few sets and then I usually just do the entire workout anyways!

• Warmup: Elliptical for 10 Minutes.
• Shoulder Press with Barbells.
• Barbell Shoulder Flies in Three Positions: Forward, Side, Behind.
• Upright Row Raises with Pulley.
• Shoulder Shrugs with Dumbbells.
• Misc. Stretching.
• Abs: Misc Leg Raises.

Total workout time: About 1 hour.