Starting Out

It was now time for our first official week of lifting. My group consisted of me, Chris Morgan, and Kyle Johnson. Chris and Kyle had maxed out at 175 the previous day, compared to my puny 145 pounds. At first I was a little hesitant because they were quite a bit stronger than me, but I decided that this would be good for me because they would push me to lift more. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were upper body days, and Tuesday and Thursday were lower body days. Your muscles must have a day of rest, so thats why we set the workout to rotate between the two major muscle groups, lower and upper body. Then inside these two groups are several sub groups. Upper body has biceps, triceps, latisimus doris (upper back), shoulders, and chest. Lower body consists of quadracepts, hamstrings, calfs, hip flexers, and abdominals. As you can tell, there are signifucantly more muscles in the upper body section of the workout, which is why we work upper body three days a week and lower body only two days; plus, everyone wants to have a strong upper body because it just looks good and is beneficical when it comes to picking up ladies on the beach. Now, the first day coach Hurley said would make us the sorest we would be the entire semester. I kind of took this statement lightly, until I woke up the next day. When I rolled over out of bed and tried to do my regular morning yawn and extend my arms above my head, I was sent into shock by the tearing sensation of my chest and arms. We had done a benching workout the day before that also included workouts such as curls, 1 armed rows, and many more. I found myself wondering if I was going to be this sore all the time, but I was determined not to give up. So, I took a shower, downed my protein, and headed off to school for first block once again, free weights.