I’m not positive, but I think it is a bad idea to watch TV shows about food right before bed. What do we do each evening before going to sleep? Watch a TV show about food…. silly us.
I enjoy the Cooking Channel more than the Food Network these days! There are some great shows on the Cooking Channel. The newest one we’ve discovered is Taco Trip. Aaron Sanchez, from the restaurant Johnny Sanchez in New Orleans, is the host and goes to different cities in order to find the best taco in the United States. I’ll take one for the team…I will go to every single restaurant featured on this show to see if it is #1 or not. What a horrible job, but someone has to do it. I know, very kind of me.
Some of our other favorites on the Cooking Channel are Chuck’s Eat the Street, Eat Street, and Best Thing I Ever Ate.
Enough talk about food (I rarely say that, by the way). My favorite body part to train is shoulders. Not many people say that. I don’t know why, but I love training shoulders! One benefit to training shoulders is that they can be trained multiple times per week if you want!
The heavier I lift on shoulder moves the more my “Elvis face” comes out. Are you familiar with this face? Shoulders are the only body part that makes my face do this and it is completely uncontrollable. The left side of my upper lip curls up when I lift really heavy shoulders and when they start to get fatigued. I laugh because I literally cannot control it and it always reminds me of Elvis.
See what I mean? The lip curl. It happens to me pretty much every time I lift shoulders. So not only do I have the lip curl, but then I start laughing because I can feel the lip makin’ its move….. such a weirdo.
Try this workout next time you want to focus on shoulders. Do a few warm up exercises and then try to go pretty heavy with the seated dumbbell presses. Start will something fairly heavy, then increase the weight and perform fewer reps. Then increase the weight again and perform fewer reps. Aim to start with 10 reps, then 8, 6, and 4 reps. If you realize midway through that you went too heavy or too light, then adjust accordingly throughout the set.
I also like going fairly heavy lately with the lateral raises. Instead of doing 12-15 reps per set, I’ve been going a little bit heavier and trying to get 8-10 reps per set.
I have found that I cannot lift as heavy with the Arnold Presses. I actually do 5-10lbs lighter per dumbbell with Arnold Presses compared to regular seated dumbbell presses. They are kind of strange the first time you try them, but give them a shot! I have found to really like them.
Below are links to each move in case you are unfamiliar with one or more.
Bent Over Rear Delt Raise (this link shows it with your head resting on a bench…. perform the same movement without the bench)
What is your favorite body part to train?
