05.05.2020 - Healthy Performer - Mr Lemon

DAY 9 

Today was my chest and shoulders day.  The exercises I did were pushups, reverse fly, dumbbell lateral raise, overhead dumbbell press, Arnold press and standing chest fly.  After doing this workout, I felt a lot more tired and worked out than last week's session which is down to my increase in reps and sets of the exercises and also switching an exercise out that didn't work for me to one that did.  I think I was a bit ambitious at the start and also increased the weight from 3lbs to 5lbs dumbbells, but I had to stop after a bit as I knew I wouldn't be able to carry on much longer if I stuck with the heavier weights.  With regards to pushups, I managed to do 10 reps properly without a break which I'm very proud of considering I could barely do 1 fully 2 weeks ago.  I can definitely feel that my right arm is stronger than my left but I tried to keep the left doing as much work as the right.  The standing chest fly exercise was the most challenging for me, probably as it was the last one and I had been getting progressively more tired, but also because I really felt it work my trapezius muscles.  After this workout I followed a 5 min shoulder, upper back, chest and arm stretching cool down.  The stretch felt painful in a good and relieving way and I felt a lot more relaxed afterwards.  I also made sure I have been hydrated throughout the day.