Saturday Biceps Training

Saturday the 7th of April saw me start my new training schedule, I decided to start with Back and Biceps. This was the first session after three months off so it was a wise decision to take it easy.

I started with Olympic Bar curls, don't be a clever dick now, just load the bar with some moderate weights and stick to a reasonable number of reps and sets.

So I started as follows: -

15 x Empty Bar (20kg)
15x Empty Bar (20kg)
12x 40kg
12x 40kg
10x 40kg
8x 40kg

Nothing that spectacular there, but I could see my reps in decline towards the end. Time off sucks.

Next I thought I would alternate and do some back exercises, so I started doing chin ups. I only ever to body-weight for chins so it went as follows: -

12 reps
12 reps
10 reps
5 reps

Ok, so that sucked too, though I go quite wide, its still surprising how quickly I loose it doing chins.

I have now been working out for approximately 30 minutes and I am starting to loose motivation, time to go back to biceps / forearms and do some reverse curls. Needless to say I was crap, simply managing two sets.

EZ-Bar reverse Curls

10x 20kg
8x 20kg

And to finish, lets do some hammer curls, my dumbells are not very good so it was more of a token gesture that I will not even bother to list here.
What really got me was the pain the next day... I know its probably been the longest period without any training that I have had in the last 10 or 12 years, but wow, its now Friday and only today can I stretch my arms without feeling any pain.

It is just as well because its Biceps and Back day again! Respect.