I’ve been lost with my workouts lately. I haven’t had a clear-cut goal, instead basing my workouts on general health, some notion of (obsolete) athletic needs, and boredom. Without some competitive outlet, I find my workouts to be aimless and somewhat pointless. General health and fitness is so uninspiring to me. None of these has kept me training at the level of consistency and intensity I ought to be maintaining for both optimal physical fitness and professional reasons.
Since I really don’t pursue any specific athletic avocations at this point in my life, training athletically is not only pointless, but also counter productive considering the physical impairments I keep exacerbating: sciatica, arthritic pain in my ankle and left hand digits, shoulder pain from years of over-use and abuse, to name a few.
The level of exercise I need to accomplish to maintain general health is likewise so easy for me to achieve I don’t feel like I’m accomplishing anything.
And boredom leads to demotivation and general lack of interest in my own personal fitness.
To remedy this I’m going to begin a good, old school, body building routine. Nothing fancy.
Nothing overly athletic or complex. Just basic body building and strength training, done with gradually increasing intensity over a period of weeks. I’ll target different parts of my body on different days, using a three-day split routine. The same exercises every week till I reach a strength and development plateau, and then I’ll redesign the routine to reach a new plateau, and so on. The goal is simple: get specifically strong in certain exercises, and to generally strengthen every skeletal muscle as much as possible. In addition to my other posts, I will log these workouts here, and post them, so that all my readers can see what I’ll be doing, and the challenges that I either overcome or succumb to, just like everyone else in the exercise community.
My split will be as follows:
- Chest & Back Monday and Thursday (DB bench press, Incline DB press, cable fly’s, Pull-ups, cable rows/long pull, cable high row)
- Lower Extremities Tuesday and Friday (squats, dead lifts, jump step ups, leg extension, prone leg curl)
- Shoulder, Arms, cardio Saturday (standing military press, db lateral raise, Standing e-z bar biceps curl, db incline biceps curl, dips, cable triceps pulldown, spin 30-45 minutes)
Light to moderate cardio will also be done on chest and back days, depending on energy levels, and on any other day energy, motivation, and time permit. Abdominal and core work will be done at the end of every workout, depending on soreness.
Hopefully, you will find this log of my own workouts to be motivating, and heartening to see that we all face similar challenges, regardless of which direction we come from in this exercise community of ours.
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