The Gym Rat Nature

It's Monday. My husband is leaving for a business meeting in Canada later today so we spend the morning together after my son leaves for school. Which means I don't actually get to the gym until nearly noon. I had planned to do errands afterwards, but I barely have time to get my workout done before I have to rush home to meet the school bus and then take my son to his kung fu class.

I'd like to cut my warm up cardio but even 15 minutes is barely enough to get me warm. I don't have much of a stretch workout since the Cage is gone. But I've hit the perfect time at the gym when hardly anyone is here. Smith Bench Press is routine and I'm happy to get that done. But lately, when I do Smith Inclined Presses, I get a weird sensation in my right shoulder, posterior and anterior delts. It's not quite painful, but it's unpleasant enough to limit me to 3 sets. However, I have no problem doing DB Laterals superset with DB Reverse Incline Flyes. The gym is starting to fill up. I see Little R and Chatty Guy. Maroon is on the treadmill. Chatty Guy seems to hover. Most women like B and Venus come earlier in the day.

Because I'm short on time, I move quickly from delts to triceps. I go for reps on Close Grip Bench Press with super light weight. Then finish with sets of Rip Skulls. My triceps are hugely pumped. I know that Chatty Guy is trying not to stare. I'd really like to skip HIIT cardio today but that's not me. So I force myself to do 12 minutes of HIIT and 18 minutes of LISS. And I still don't know whether I'm doing it right. I put my hoodie back on because at 2 pm, the gym fills up with HS kids. Then I do a partial Mat Stretch routine, dropping into my splits without any issues.

I'm definitely putting on size. My husband complains to me that since using MyFitnessPal he's put on weight. We both agree that the app lures us into thinking we can eat more calories than we probably should. I'm using it mostly to track my protein intake. Tomorrow I'll probably do Back and Biceps, only because I won't know until Wednesday whether I'm chaperoning my son's class trip to the Locust Grove Museum, which will mean no gym time. Got to be adaptable!

Monday Workout
(17,647.5 lbs moved; cardio = XXX)

Cross Trainer

Warm Up

Calorie :   74 CAL
Distance: 1.82 mile
Speed :    7.3 mph
Duration : 00:15:03

Smith Machine Bench Press

174.17

Set 1 : 30x12
Set 2 : 80x12
Set 3 : 120x10
Set 4 : 130x8
Set 5 : 135x6
Set 6 : 95x25

Smith Machine Incline Bench Press

112

Set 1 : 30x12
Set 2 : 70x12
Set 3 : 80x12

Dumbbell Lateral Raise

35

Set 1 : 20x12
Set 2 : 20x12
Set 3 : 25x8
Set 4 : 25x8
Set 5 : 25x8
Set 6 : 25x12 SuperSet with

Dumbbell Reverse Flyes

37.5

Set 1 : 20x15
Set 2 : 20x15
Set 3 : 25x12
Set 4 : 25x12
Set 5 : 25x12
Set 6 : 25x15

Barbell Close Grip Bench Press

119.17

Set 1 : 45x25
Set 2 : 65x25
Set 3 : 75x15

Barbell Reverse Grip Skullcrusher

52.5

Set 1 : 17.5x15
Set 2 : 37.5x12
Set 3 : 37.5x12
Set 4 : 37.5x12

Elliptical Training

Calorie :   183 CAL
Distance: 2.34 mile
12 min HIIT
18 min LISS
Duration : 00:30:00