What adding yellow can do

I didn't do everything I was planning on doing this morning but I will get into that shortly here is how the morning has gone so far. The alarm went off and I went ahead and hit the snooze button one time for a little more sleep because this has been a pretty long week and there really is not an end in site for me until about next Sunday. I got going on my arms and shoulders workout and was excited to see what the added resistance would bring to the table. Here is my explaining the title of today's post. I added another band of resistance to each of the exercises today, if you have not guessed yet that band was the yellow band. I can't speak for everyone's band set but in mine yellow is the lightest of the five colors so I figured that would be a good place to start and if I still needed more resistance than I would move up to the green bands for the next workout...I won't be moving to the green bands yet! Adding the yellow moved all my rep counts down to the 8 to 10 range before failure (where muscle build happens the most) and by the time I got to the last set of exercises, the ones Tony calls the bonus round I was pretty much spent and all those numbers where way down but I was really feeling the work by the time I was done. When it got to the cool down I was putting forth some major effort just to keep my arms above my head during the stretches, as far as I am concerned you can't ask for much more than that. Now that I am good with the resistance it is time to focus on getting the numbers up so we will he how today's workout compares to last next weeks when the time comes. I didn't run this morning because I didn't have the energy to do it and I didn't want to hinder the muscle development I created today. (More on that in a future post) I may try and run tomorrow after stretch and ab we will just have to see where my energy level is when the time comes.

Today's tip topic:
When to workout, in all my reading it seems people are always asking each other when the best time to workout is. Some say it is first thing in the morning some think right after work and others right before bed. Since I am no expert I just had to make a decision based on each of the arguments I have seen. My decision is, I like to workout first thing in the morning. The theory there is if you workout first thing on an empty stomach you body is forced to use its stored energy (fat) to get through it, there for you have the best chance of burning access fat if that is your goal by working out in the morning on an empty stomach. In a later post I will explain the theories for the other workout time but for now that is the theory for morning workouts and why I choose to workout first thing.