Today marks the end of my first week of my resistance & cardio program. I've now got the blueprint of what April – June will look like, though expect changes for next week, as I want to lay the foundation for the cardio influx come July. And I really want more skills work in martial arts and more ab sets/sessions

This workout's playlist, alternative from 1994, hit the right groove for me:

• Better Man – Pearl Jam
• Basket Case – Green Day
• Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
• Loser – Beck
• Come Out and Play – The Offspring
• Vasoline – Stone Temple Pilots
• Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden
• About A Girl – Nirvana
• Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
• Shine – Collective Soul
• Cannonball – The Breeders
• Fell On Black Days – Soundgarden
• Big Empty – Stone Temple Pilots
• Self Esteem – The Offspring
• Far Behind – Candlebox
• Zombie – The Cranberries
• Return To Innocence – Enigma
• Fall Down – Toad The Wet Sprocket
• Spoonman – Soundgarden
• Sabotage – Beastie Boys
• Yellow Ledbetter – Pearl Jam
• When I Come Around – Green Day
• Fade Into You – Mazzy Star
• Selling The Drama – Live
• Stay – Lisa Loeb
• Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town – Pearl Jam

This morning was an Arms workout. I'm further away from the Jumanji footprint, but the spirit remains:

• 5-min bike warmup
• Dumbell Curl (run amt up and back down): 2 sets of 20,15,10,15, 20 reps
• Standing EZ Bar Curls: 8×10
• DB Concentration Curl: 5×12
• Hammer Curls: 3×12
• Reverse Grip cable pushdown (run amt up and back down): 2 sets x 25,20,15,12,20 reps
• EZ Bar Skullcrushers to Close Grip Press: 4 sets x 12-20 reps
• Dumbbell Kickback: 3×12
• 30-min treadmill to 6AM

In conjunction with my missing to beat my alarm clock to 4AM today (I try to wake up on my own 10 min before) and a long resistance program, I didn't have time for a Dumbbell Triceps Extension: 3×15 and couldn't attached the last segment of bike cardio. I tried to compensate mid-workout by adding quick 45-second bike sessions between routines that had a rest gap, though honestly I prefer workouts where one arm rests while the other trains so as to minimize downtime.

So there you have it, my first week of training. While I have the next two days set to rest, I do have some side projects (like organize my workshop) and I may just comeback for a little cardio.