Moooooooooooooooooooooooonday!

Another training week begins and with it comes more improvements in weights shifted.

This week is slightly different though.  I've decided to take the supplements seriously, so in addition to a decent protein rich diet, I'm also going to be having the following supplements...

Protein - Maximuscle ProMax Diet for breakfast
Oats - MyProtein fine oats mixed in with the breakfast shake
BCAA - MyProtein BCAA to aid recovery
Creatine - MyProtein Creatine Monohydrate to help push that little bit more in the gym
Taurine - MyProtein Taurine to help with focus and decent sleep
ZMA - Zinc & Magnesium supplement to aid recovery

In addition to this, I'm making sure that I eat healthier (cutting out the junk food) and that I drink plenty of water - the water is needed as creatine is known for causing cramps.

Basically, my nutritional plan is as follows...

• Breakfast shake with oats, BCAA, creatine, multivitamin 
• Lunch - chicken, pasta and salad, creatine
• Late PM snack - small pasta portion
• Dinner - chicken/fish, veg and rice/boiled potato
• Pre training - taurine drink
• Post training - protein shake + BCAA
• Before bed - ZMA + taurine

And now onto the meat of today.  The training session...

Bench press: 1 x 10 @ 35lb DB, 1 x 8 @ 45lb DB, 3 x 5 @ 90kg
Hammer curl: 1 x 10 @ 25lb, 1 x 8 @ 35lb, 3 x 5 @ 55lb
Dip: 1 x 10 @ 80lb, 1 x 8 @ 70lb, 3 x 5 @ 50lb
Wide grip lat pulldown: 1 x 10 @ 45kg, 1 x 8 @ 55kg, 3 x 5 @ 75kg
Pec flye: 1 x 10 @ '7', 1 x 8 @ 10, 3 x 5 @ 14
Tricep rope pulldown: 1 x 10 @ 15kg, 1 x 8 @ 20kg, 3 x 5 @ 25kg

Overall, I was pretty pleased with the session.  My heaviest benchpress in over a year, equal to my heaviest curl ever - the form on my left arm leaves a little to be desired, so I'm not moving the weight up yet.  The dip is almost as heavy as I've been in over a year - it does pinch on my shoulder though.  Pulldown is coming along nicely - massive thanks to the physio for getting my shoulder workable again!  Flye was OK, it's quite a weird movement though.  Rope pulldown could have gone better - but it is a lot harder using the rope compared to a bar.

So, some more progression and hopefully quite a bit more over the coming weeks as I continue with the training supplements.