Week 5

Didn’t gain or lose anything this week. I’m excited to get it to a normal every other day routine. I was able to schedule three workouts this week (M-W-F). I’m hoping to keep this schedule up for the next several weeks. Although I’ve said this in earlier posts, having regular appointments with your trainer not only helps you when you’re in the gym but it also keeps that little voice in the back of your head when you’re about to order that dessert or eat that junk food.

One area that Jesse has really helped me in is to take time for myself to get in shape. Many times I put my work, family, and other commitments in my life ahead of keeping my body in shape. It doesn’t mean you have to devalue the other things, it just means you need to really focus on your own physical fitness in order to help impact other areas of your life in the long run.

Here’s a brief outline of my three workouts with Jesse over the course of the last week. All of them were killer workouts!!
Monday:
-warm-up:
back/core
-end of the bench knee raises
-medicine ball ab throwing @ the wall
-20 push-ups
-20 tricep push-ups
-punches on the punching bag
-hitting stick against punching bag
-punching bag squat, pick-up, thrust forward- literally hell!!!
-plate squat over bench
25 lb 1 min.
35 lb 15 sec / 2 intervals
Wednesday:
-warm-up
chest:
-dumbbell presses
-5 set’s flat bench
-5 set’s incline
-5 set’s incline; punching
-treadmill jogging: 3.5 incline 4.5 speed 7 mins.
Form: locking out elbows, going deep
Friday:
-warm-up
legs
-leg press- 5 sets
-2 1 minute planks between sets
-upstairs machines
-hamstring curls-4 sets
-leg extensions- 4 sets
-calf raises 3 sets
5 minutes on the treadmill; full incline, 3.5- 4 speed, 8 lb dumbbells