While on a nice easy bike ride, I stop and record a short note to talk about The Most Powerful Tool that Sean Nalewanyj taught me about in Muscle Gain Truth so far.
About three weeks or a month ago, I started carrying a little black note-book with me each time I went to the gym for a workout. I started writing down all the weights that I was doing, and the number of reps I was doing – and starting to get an idea of exactly how much I’m progressing each week.
I found that since I started following the Muscle Gain Truth formula – I’m on say 3 of the second week – I’m finding that I’m just finding out what my maximum intensity weight really is. I’ve been bumping it up every week, but I’m finding that I can still do more – and I’m not completely finished on the seventh rep.
My reservation is, as I go along, is that I don’t want to injure myself and reduce my progress and slow myself down, so I’m taking it pretty easy on these first few weeks and slowing adding the weight on, and working my way up.
This afternoon when I go in for the second workout of week 2, I’ll be focusing on chest and triceps. I’m a bit more familiar with those muscle groups, so I was able to go right up to my maximum intensity weights right away. And now it’s going to be interesting to see, in my book, if I’m progressing from week to week – how many reps can I do, and can I add on 5 lbs to what I’m already doing.