Monday Weight Training

A new month, another day for reflection.

Today is Monday, so you'll be doing your weight training today - as you do every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

You should be doing your weight training as gradually as you're doing your weight loss. The old adage "No pain no gain" may be true...but you're not trying to gain bulding muscles, merely tone up the ones you have.

But you do have to increase the number of repetitions you do, and the amount of weights you use.

Typically, you increase the amount of weight you use, if you're trying to build muscle. And if you're trying to tone muscles or achieve endurance, you increase the number of repetitions. But a lot of repetitions won't really do any good if you're not using weight that presents some kind of challenge to you.

You should therefore increase the amount of repetitions you do over the course of a week or so, and increase the amount of weight every couple of weeks, until you've achieved the amount of strength you want. Then, just increase repetitions.

Keep track of the weight and the reps you do each day. THere's nothing like the warm glow of accomplishment you receive as you page through your journal and watch the weight gradually go down, and the strength gradually go up.