Not the one you are probably thinking either. This morning in my PT session we worked on upper body and arms. Along with my core, it has always been my weakest area. But that is one of the main reasons I am doing weight training in the first place, I want to be stronger all over. So I was quite surprised when my PT sat me down after today’s session where I totally felt I had worked hard and definitely felt it, and mentioned that I seemed to have plateaued with the amount of weight I am using for my upper body.

Then I thought about it, and I totally have. We discussed how on the weights I am using for certain exercises, I am doing them without any issues, sure I am still working but my muscles could totally go harder! But if those weights are increased either 1 kg for dumbbells or a plate for the machines (particularly the lat pull down this morning) my body shuts down and won’t do it.

I am fairly certain my scumbag brain is being a dick, because there was a time today on the fly machine that my PT upped my weight without putting too much emphasis on it and I was able to do 2 sets out of 3 at the higher weight. We were super setting it with bicep curls and over head presses so by the 3rd set I was feeling the fatigue. So for some reason a part of my brain is blocking the increase in weights, which is conflicting with another part that wants me to get stronger and push myself. It doesn’t do it for leg days, just upper body it seems.

I am going to monitor this and see how I go over the next few weeks. We are going to start by my PT not telling me the weights and seeing how my body reacts to not knowing the actual weight. Sometimes my brain is a jerk and I have just had to accept this and learn to live with the crazy in my head.