Tuesday 25th February
Last nights PUMP class was good. They are all learning the Step routine well and next week we can add and move on. The classes technique is really good and I am really pleased with how many of them are now adding more weight on to make the desired changes to their body! It’s great.
It was weigh day today and I am 2 oz heavier! Unbelievable, cos I look massive! Even my clothes are now getting tight. I only have 2 weeks to go before clean up diet starts and then its full on diet time to get lean!
This morning I trained arms, shoulder and chest. Arms are a priority as shoulders, so this week its arms first. I warmed up on chins and dips and then onto the first tri-set, pressdowns into barbell curls into overhead lying cable curls (3 sets). Next was Close grip bench and incline supination curls (single arms), I got a great pump off these first 2 exercises. Then it was close grip push ups (easy today) into double arm kneeling cable curls. Helen and I then worked together on standing military shoulder presses and then it was onto dumbel lateral raises superset with reverse flyes (used the machine today). Chest was incline flyes dumbel into vertical chest press. Then to start working on my calves, I did 3 sets of 25 reps (4 plates) standing calf raises. I am now committed to training my calves every day to give them some height, 100 reps every day.
Watched Rocky 2 before training my first client before my training, so we both got as usual great workouts and I had Rocky playing on my i-pod. Rocky music gives me a great feeling of being in New York for my first time and I can really lose myself. It creates a wonderful feeling. In NLP terms this called VAKOG (see below)
Representational systems (also known as sensory modalities and abbreviated to VAKOG or known as the 4-tuple) is a Neuro-linguistic programming model that examines how the human mind processes information. It states that for practical purposes, information is (or can be treated as if) processed through the senses. Thus people say one talks to oneself (the auditory sense) even if no words are emitted, one makes pictures in one’s head when thinking or dreaming (the visual sense), and one considers feelings in the body and emotions (known as the kinesthetic sense).
NLP holds it as crucial in human cognitive processing to recognize that the subjective character of experience is strongly tied into, and influenced by, how memories and perceptions are processed within each sensory representation in the mind. It considers that expressions such as “It’s all misty” or “I can’t get a grip on it”, can often be precise literal unconscious descriptions from within those sensory systems, communicating unconsciously where the mind perceives a problem in handling some mental event.
Within NLP, the various senses in their role as information processors, are known as representation systems, or sensory modalities. The model itself is known as the VAKOGmodel (from the initial letters of the sensory-specific modalities: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory). Since taste and smell are so closely connected, sometimes as a 4-tuple, meaning its 4 way sensory-based description. A submodality is a structural element of a sensory impression, such as its perceived location, distance, size, or other quality.
Busy day working with clients and on being on-duty in the gym. Then getting myself ready for Thursdays workout LEGS!