The gym has really been a way for me to push myself. As the workload gets more difficult and demanding in school, the time I have for the gym becomes less and less as the weeks progress to December. Nevertheless, I want to make sure that I stay committed even if it is challenging. An indication of progress in my sessions is increasing my weights. For example, on my leg days I always include the same compound exercises, which are core movements that must remain the same in each leg day session. With these core movements I can really focus on improving my weight overtime the more I do them and ‘Progressive Overload’. My core movements include Hip trusts, Bulgarian split squats and squats on the smith machine. I always form a plan before I enter the gym to know exactly what I’m doing for the workout. Through tracking my weights in the gym I have observed great improvement and development in these main movements. In the start my hip thrust max weight was 80 Kg and now just a 3 weeks later my new PR is 120Kg, for my weighted squats I started off doing 30 kg and have moved now to 50kg, Romanian deadlifts started with 14 kg and is now 40kg. I face challenges with my level of motivation, especially as school becomes more taxing, I sometimes physically don’t have enough energy to go through with my workouts. However, this has helped me build my mental endurance so I can push through even when I don’t feel like I can. After each session I always feel so accomplished and productive. As presented in the workout plan below, in brackets after exercises I say ’till failure’ which is a way to indicate that I need to do that exercise to my maximum physical capacity. The only way to see results is to exceed my comfort level.
