Just bought a pair of 24.9kg (per side) dumbbells from carousell, came with stand and bench for $200, i think it's pretty worth it considering that the gym downstairs is getting crowded often these days, it's good to have my own private weights to work out to. So far I've just finished one full workout, and it feels great, no need to wait for dumbbells, wait for bench etc.
Noting down what I did today so I can maintain consistency to across the weeks and hopefully see some growth. Planning to do 3 day workouts, but that of course means I still have to use the gym for squats, deadlifts, barbell press, leg machines, lat pulldown/seated row machine.
Day 1 training plan: (Tues & Fri) (replaced with gym session instead of home session)
Warm up reps for chest press
1)Chest press at max weight
2) Skullcrunchers
3) Dumbbell flyes
4) Shoulder press
5) Hammer curl
6) Overhead extension
Day 2 plan : (Mon & Thurs)
Warm up reps for bicep curls
1) Bicep curls
2) Bent over row
3) Preacher curl
4) Reverse fly
5) Lateral raise
6) Hammer curl
7) Wrist curl
Gym sessions (Tues & Fri)
1) Barbell Press
2) Deadlift/Squats
3) Lat pulldown
4) Leg extension
5) Leg curl
6) Heavier Dumbbell press (inclined)
7) Overhead press
Problem with gym sessions is that it makes my home workout obsolete, except for tricep movements.I'm not sure what to do, and I want to implement the 531 workout into my compound workouts.
Gym session as of 1/7/25
I did : Barbell press, 531 deadlifts, overhead press, leg extensions & curls, dumbbell press (slightly inclined) and lat pull down. My lat pull down is sucking, losing strength already. I didn't do squats today but I already know I keep losing strength to maintain my past loads (4 sets of 8 reps of 100kg squats). Now I probably have to start with lower weights again. But, with the adjustable dumbbells I can do more upper body isolation work, as well as some lower body like toe raise with weights, lunges etc.
Also, forgot to mention that I started taking 3g of creatine since my return from NZ, so thats around 16 june 2025. I only bought 2 bottles for cheap (sgd 11.60) so it can only last me a few months at best.
