Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Blueprint Trainer

This guy inspired me to start training at 16 !

Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Blueprint Trainer

Workout feelings

Sometimes I get a bit nervous when my workout feels easy. Problaly because then I feel like I am not pushing myself enough. I love the feeling of burning musce tissue and my body heating up from metabolic stress.

My last workout (back, chest ad arms) felt pretty easy to me even with added weight on chins and dips.
After training I had energy left and I was was not very hungry. Later that evening while walking with the dog I did started to feel the consequences of training in the form of muscle soreness. Next morning I felt more muscle soreness so it seems like my workout was taxing enough after all...

So why did the workout felt so easy I was wondering ?

The possible causes :

• I eat some more meat then usual
• I added a couple cups of black coffe with coconut oil
• I was a bit lazy form the last leg workout...

So some things to think about and experiment with ...

Great leg workout !

Had a great leg workout on the new squat rack (finally !)  in my gym. After 1 warmup and 1 working set (of 4) my legs where shaking allready from deep squatting...  After that some slow barbell lunges and finally after shoulders and abs my fun part of the training : a circuit of : one leg leg presses, dumbell shoulder press and ab barbell roll out.

Yiha ! Time for my carb back load !

Variate your grip

Variating your grip could he helpfull on exercise where you experience shoulder pain like bench press or military press. These give me shoulder pain sometimes when applying pronated grip all the time ...

See : The benefits of lifting with a neutral grip

Concept for a 'Fitness manifesto'

As a Software Enigneer doing Agile Software Development for a living I was thinking about a 'Fitness manifesto' to get people (including myself) healthy and fit. Here is my concept : 

We are uncovering better ways of getting fit by simply doing it.

Through this we have come to value :
Long term structural motivation over short term motivation to keep training all our lives
Training smarter over training harder and longer to have energy and time to do other things also
Structural changes in our nutrition over short term diets to keep eating healthy
Maintain a steady improvement rhythm over trying to get fast results to stabilize our gains and improve from there

Though there is value in the 'over' items we value the bigger first items more to improve our odds to get and stay fit through reaching our goals as specified in the 'to' items.

Tell me what you think and add something through the comments yourself !