Gym Style Chest & Triceps

Well, today's workout was downright relaxing compared to Gym Style Legs yesterday. My legs are sooooo sore today. I am walking like a bow-legged cowboy. It's rather embarassing. It's a good pain, it's just hard to walk like a normal person.

So today the rotation called for Gym Style Chest & Triceps. After the 8 drop-sets of pushups, my pecs were pretty much fried. But then Cathe made me do 3 sets of bench presses, 3 sets of chest flyes, and some sets of incline presses and incline flyes. I could hardly lift 5 pound dumbbells over my head after that. Talk about muscle fatigue! Then it was time to work triceps, which involved a "warm-up" of what felt like 2 million tricep dips. Yeah, that was just the warm-up. Then there was lying arm extensions, and seated French press, and cross-body extensions with dumbbells AND with the resistance band. My triceps were really wiped out after that too. So it was another one of those mornings where I could hardly wash my hair because my arms were just too exhausted. The fatigue has since passed, but DOMS is slowly setting in. I am fairly certain my lower body will remain sore for at least another day, so tomorrow will be a real hoot with essentially my entire body stiff and sore. Woo hoo! Bring it on!

This workout did not qualify as aerobic, at least not what I usually consider to be aerobic. But, I wore my heart rate monitor anyway and here are the stats:


Workout: Gym Style Chest & Triceps
Duration: 48:31
Kcal / %Fat: 144 / 60%
Max HR% / Avg HR%: 73% / 57%
Time in Moderate Zone: 00:32

Yep, a whopping 30 seconds in my moderate zone. And, for a change, no time in my Hard zone. So my heart did not see much benefit today. But my chest and triceps sure did. And they'll be thanking me (or screaming at me) tomorrow. :-)

Tomorrow... that reminds me. I think the rotation calls for another lower body strength workout (floor only). If I am too sore still, I may switch it with next Monday's scheduled workout (LowMax). We shall see...