Goals for Spring - Summer: Toning the Muscles
March 13, 2008 by Fitness Redefined
This summer I want to look extra lean! No, not extra lean as in ground beef extra lean!?
Anyways, I want to incorporate a cardio session in my workouts so I can start burning off that winter fat that I am carrying around! I am deciding on whether to do swimming for my cardio workouts or jumping on to an elliptical machine. I am quite fond of the latter, but I really want to try out swimming for a change. I have already started lowering the weight on my resistance training and increased the reps (10 - 15 repetition). All I that is missing now is just the cardio sessions which definitely will help speed up the process of redefining my whole body!
Although I know that some muscle mass will be lost through this new program I am not so quite worried about that. The only thing that I am worried about is sticking to the new schedule! Yes I will admit it. I tend to deviate on certain commitments in regards to my work outs (and may be other things :P), but if you’re determined enough to get what you want then you must go for it. Don’t hold back. I will come up with a cardio session by this week and I will have it posted on Saturday night.
I think my diet will have to be altered a bit to achieve my goal of toning down. I will try to reconfigure my portions that I consume, but I don’t think I will go as far as to calorie count. I am thinking in the lines of separating my meals into 5 snacking periods so I can maintain a optimal blood sugar level so I won’t feel fatigue throughout the day. But I will surely look into changing the way I eat so I can achieve my goal!
Brief summary of today’s work out:
Today I worked on my shoulders and triceps these are the exercise I did:
Military Press- 14 reps- 35lbs (warm up set)
5 X 12 reps- 40lbs
Front Raises - 5 X 10 reps- 15lbs
Side Raises - 5 X 10 reps- 15lbs
Close-grip shoulder lifts - 5 X 10 ~40lbs
Triceps:
Skull Crusher followed by close grip bench press - 3 X 10 reps- 10lbs
Reverse Skull Crushers - 2 X 10 reps- 10lbs
Later on in my posts I will create small video clips of me showing you how I do my workouts so you guys can follow along if you like.*
*You may want to check with your physician before you start trying out these exercise because it may cause some people problems.
