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My Sports Fitness Therapist has cleared me for working out again, but cautioned me to ensure I listened to my body very closely and did nothing to further injure myself. In that light, I have restarted!
WOW! My chest exercises have plummeted in weight. This is not due to not working out, but due to the nerve entrapment. At a certain point my right arm simply ceases to engage and does NO work at all. For example, my Flat Bench Flys used to be done at 3 sets of 20, 30 pounds each set. I picked up the 30 pound dumbbell, laid flat on my back, put the dumbbells above me and started to move them outward to the proper start position and BAM!!! My right arm just decided to no longer work and the dumbbell was on my chest in an instant. Only 30 pounds, so no harm done, but I was a bit shocked. I had to drop to 15 pounds before the right arm would engage. I will be so happy when this nerve entrapment is fixed!
I also tested out biceps and triceps, just to see how they would respond. No numbers until Arm Day, but I found biceps worked as expected but triceps had the same problem with a lack of muscle engagement at too high a weight. BLAH!
On Sunday, I will update with body measurements. Onto the exercises:
Chest
Flat bench press: 15 reps of 100 pounds, 4 reps of 130 pounds, 6 reps of 110 pounds, 8 reps of 90 pounds, 20 reps of 50 pounds
Incline bench press: 15 @ 70, 4 @ 110 , 6 @ 90, 8 @ 60, 20 @ 40
Flat bench flys: 3 sets of 20 @ 15 pounds
WOW! My chest exercises have plummeted in weight. This is not due to not working out, but due to the nerve entrapment. At a certain point my right arm simply ceases to engage and does NO work at all. For example, my Flat Bench Flys used to be done at 3 sets of 20, 30 pounds each set. I picked up the 30 pound dumbbell, laid flat on my back, put the dumbbells above me and started to move them outward to the proper start position and BAM!!! My right arm just decided to no longer work and the dumbbell was on my chest in an instant. Only 30 pounds, so no harm done, but I was a bit shocked. I had to drop to 15 pounds before the right arm would engage. I will be so happy when this nerve entrapment is fixed!
I also tested out biceps and triceps, just to see how they would respond. No numbers until Arm Day, but I found biceps worked as expected but triceps had the same problem with a lack of muscle engagement at too high a weight. BLAH!
On Sunday, I will update with body measurements. Onto the exercises:
Chest
Flat bench press: 15 reps of 100 pounds, 4 reps of 130 pounds, 6 reps of 110 pounds, 8 reps of 90 pounds, 20 reps of 50 pounds
Incline bench press: 15 @ 70, 4 @ 110 , 6 @ 90, 8 @ 60, 20 @ 40
Flat bench flys: 3 sets of 20 @ 15 pounds