Thursday

Today was the first day of week #3 - this, theoretically, is an easy week, but thanks to the shift to 20 repetitions per set... man, it was totally fucking killer. The bench/press-up, chins and dips were extremely, extremely fatiguing, to the point where, in the bench/press particularly, I had to pause for a few seconds towards the end of each set (particularly in the last two) because my muscles were toast.

I increased the rest time between sets to 45 seconds (from 30) and up to 1:30 between exercises. It was still very hard. Even though, as said, the weights were back to where they were on week #1, the overall increase in reps made this a right bastard. I mean, that's 160 reps for chest, there, with the bench/push-up, over about 7-8 minutes (with rest.) That's brutal.

Abs stayed the same (20-25-30.)

The workout took 72 minutes overall. I think these 'easy' weeks are always going to be longer simply because of the reps. With the row, I was so tired when I got there that I was just hoping to break 4:00, and I did (3:52).

(Incidentally, week #5 has 25 reps for each set, so that's going to be fun.)

Here's the workout:

And here's what I ate:

Tomorrow - photos! And a weigh-in.