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[disappointed_lesbian]

post-format: "html" post-tags: bodybuilding, insomnia post-mood: tired, like always post-music: Brucker, Symphony No. 4 post-location: my living room, like always

** Today I added two chest-focused exercises to my lifting routine: the dumbbell fly and the Viking press (I'm not 100% that's the correct name, but it is some type of chest press). I've had a pair of dinky little seven-pound dumbbells for a few months now, but I'd never considered using them for dumbbell flys (which I've been eager to add to my routine for months) because they are so light; I didn't think they'd help me build any muscle.

However, now that I know how to perform the Viking press for maximum effect (by clinching my pectoral muscles the whole time I'm pressing), those little dumbbells have a place: performed right after the Viking press, when my chest is still fatigued, the dumbbell fly actually gives me the most intense burn I've yet felt in my upper chest (which is the part of my chest I'm focusing on).

Now that I have these two other exercise options, I can back off on the bench pressing, which is much harder on the joints and connective tissues. I think I'll go back to three sets of incline bench press and just find some way to make them more difficult to make up for the decrease in the number of sets.

I took melatonin last night and finally got a bit more sleep, but it wasn't enough and falling asleep still took forever. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life? Surviving on a maximum of five or six hours of sleep per night? I feel that I'm not fully living life, that I'm going through life in a daze, like a zombie.