Yes, I benched 230 lbs twice. This time it was easy.

I was surprised! Yesterday I benched 230 lbs twice in 3 sets, and it wasn’t that heavy. My guess is that running 3 times for the last 3 weeks improve my physical condition a bit. My second guess is that I had a 1/2 piece of cake full with calories. I ate it 2.5 hours before my exercise (as far as I know if you eat sugar based food you gotta use the energy in the next 30 min or 1 hour). May be that helped. My third guess is that I trained only 2 times last week, and my body was completely relaxed. The fourth guess is that 3weeks ago I started doing “reverse pyramid” until failure. My last guess is that it was just one of the days when for some reason no matter what is going on in your life you just go to the gym and lift weights like crazy. Who knows?

The only thing I know for sure is that being consistent in your exercise program, not having more than 3 days without exrecising, and gradually increasing your weight will bring you the best results. Keep working out and enjoy your time in the gym.

My goal is to loose 20lbs until December 2008, but to keep my muscle mass and strength almost the same (hmmm, isn’t that the goal of everybody?). I know that loosing some weight will probably lower a bit the weight I use now, but I will do my best to keep my strength at the same level by keep lifting heavy weights despite the weight changes.