Getting back in shape. #1
Some of you may know that I was a gymnast in my past life. Meaning, I was tortured by the best of the best of Russian coaches. At some point I had a really great body and since then I kinda let things go...
It got pretty bad, at some point my female friends were getting jealous of my boobs. Last week I joined a gym and trying to get back in shape. Another motivation was that during my last physical the Doc told me I had high cholesterol.
In the next few blogs I will go over the things I am doing to get back in form. I also plan to post the pics of the progress that will hopefully be visible.
The Goals:
I am not trying to look like Arnold in his late 20's, what I am trying to do is
1. loose the extra fat on my belly so I can have a flat stomach
2. build up my legs so that they don't look like sticks
3. build up my back muscles so that my posture improves and I have a nice V shape.
4. build up my neck so i look like less like a pencil neck computer programmer
I was raised to work out using mostly with my own weight: Pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, dips etc. At this point my body isn't strong enough to do enough of heavy duty stuff to really make a difference in the overall before the muscles get too sore to really be useful in achieving my goals. I am starting with small weights and easy excersizes. The reason I am using smaller weights is to tone the muscles rather than to build mass using larger weights. In other words more repetitions with lighter weights than heavy lifting.
My work-outs are about one hour and this is what the breakdown has been so far:
10 minute set of stretching a must before any physical activity.
20 min cardio (biking, running, or climbing the stair monster)
15 minute stomach exercises broken down into 3 five minute segments (sit ups, leg lifts, crunches)
15 minute set of either legs, arms, back or shoulders. (sometimes a mix of them depending on the level of ADHD at the moment)
In the next one, I will cover specific exercises and what they are doing for my body.
I have some pics before and after (so far 3 gym trips), but I don't want to openly post them because the before part is well... not so pretty. So beware if you look... white flab galore!
http://picasaweb.google.com/vlad.ilin/BeforeAndAfterGym#
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