Day: 5/4/08

Today I started back on my exercise regimen. I am trying to keep it simple so I do not overdo it and lose interest.

For starters, I have always known that my upper body strength was far behind my lower body. My lower torso, well, a beer belly does not quite cover it. So, I need to increase my upper strength, trim my middle, and tone my lower.

To begin, as I said, simply, I did just two exercises.

Bench press @ 20#s: 15/15/15
Arm curls (press bar) @ 20#s: 15/6/4

My chest muscles handled the bench press with little effort, but my curls were obviously much harder. These need a lot of work, as I knew they would. I am a bit surprised at the chest muscles being able to out perform the arms, but I hope to bring everything together in time.