Made it to the gym last night (finally!) and could really feel the time off and loss of strength. Especially in bench press. Good news is that I'm sure I can recover much of that fairly quickly compared to my initial growth, or at least I hope I can.
Bench:
135x10
225x10
245x7
Incline Press machine:
180x10x3
I did arms - curls and triceps extensions 3x10 - on a machine as well. Finished with some delts 3x10 doing shoulder raises in a machine. I think I'm going to continue doing arms on the machines for a while rather than dips and curls like I was before. Prior to getting sick I was trying to manage some pain in my left elbow that I'm quite certain was repetitive stress related. Rather than aggravate that I'll try to give it a bit of a break and hit my muscles in some different ways for a while. No pain today, and truthfully the prior pain was never bad, just enough that I knew it was time to let it rest or it would actually be painful & cause problems.
Finished the night with 20 minutes in the recumbent exercise bike. Of everything I did last night, the biking is what I'm feeling the most. A bit of soreness in the hips from it. Managed to work most of that out while mowing the lawn earlier today, but I can certainly tell I took two weeks off from going to the gym.
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