It started with three sets of 6 unassisted pull-ups. Years ago I could do 6 to 8 pull-ups without blinking but I struggled through 6 today. That was the warm-up and we hit all the major muscles in the upper-body after that. One exercise for chest, back and shoulders then back to chest again. The idea is to strengthen and condition my body over the next two weeks. Once the strength is back my trainer intends to “whack” my muscles individually to build mass.
It went better than I expected and my trainer actually said I’m doing much better than session 1.
Take-aways after today’s session:
1) Lowering or the returning action is more important than the first action. Lowering or returning action done slowly causes the muscle fibres to break.
2) You can gauge the strength of your muscles depending on how controlled and slowly you can do the return action.
3) Many people push up or do the initial action too quickly so that uses more momentum than muscle to do.
