Day 1. New Gym Membership
I am so sick and tired of the weight room here at the condo complex not working. Either the equipment is broken, or it is 95 F in there.
After yesterday's daily ritual of "Fix the nautilus and have a sauna while working out" I decided to move out the old workout set that has been sitting in the storage room.
Caroline decided that it was time for me to finally get a real gym membership on this very same day stating (and I agree) that our place is too small for it to have a weight room on site, and that I should find a gym to join.
She is overseas in the Philippines right now taking care of business and investing in land, so who am I to argue. I went and bought a gym membership. At $22 a month, what a deal! I was happy and drove home, ate and then went BACK to workout.

I had a plan:
Day 1 - Chest and shoulders.

My body had another plan:
Day 1 - Chest and NOTHING THE HELL ELSE BECAUSE ITS BEEN YEARS AND YOU ARE NOT IN THE SAME SHAPE NOW.

So I went in... My chest routine looks like this:
(all these with olympic bar - anyone care to tell me how much that weighs?)

Flat Bench:
10(reps)x70lb
9x70... now i should note that by this time, i feel like i've never even been in the gym before. I suck at this all over again, and I cant even do this set to completetion. So lower weight.
10x50 (to failure) There... that is better.

Decline Bench:
9x50
5x50 ... so like wow. This was way too heavy. Like i am afraid if dropping the weight too heavy.
9x30 ... this seems ok. maybe 10lb more?
7x40 (to failure)

Incline bench:
9x50
7x40
6x40 (to failure)

Flat Pec Flys with dumbbell (these i am usually good at since i went to a gym in mexico that had no barbells for a time):
10x20
10x25
10x25
8x25 (to failure)

Ok... so that was hard. Like, real hard. I started about 9:35pm and by the time i finished it was 10:20, meaning that this took up nearly the entire hour i thought my workout would take.
All these were done with 1 minute rest between sets.

But onto shoulders (or so I thought)

Military Press (with smith machine as I have a shoulder problem and didnt want to hurt myself)
8x50
4x50
...

And that was is. I could NOT do anymore. No matter what I tried my energy was zapped and I was finished for the day. I have never had this before. I want to note that I am doing each and every movement with the best form I can muster, and I sure felt sore afterwards.
But why is this hurting me so much?
It has been years since i did a proper dumbbell workout, and so i wonder if i had that good of a workout?

Scary stuff, but tomorrow is another day.

Actually, your weights are pretty decent for someone just starting out. It'll get better really fast after a couple of workouts, especially the early fatigue. Keep at it, you'll be fine, it's always extra tough at the start.

For what it's worth, doing flat/incline/decline bench back to back is way overkill. I'd recommend not focusing so much on one body part in a workout, or at least adding more variety. For example, pick one type of bench to do each chest day and replace the rest of the sets with weighted dips.

An olympic bar weighs 45 lbs. Get some variety in your lift, you're definitely going overkill on a single muscle group.

If you want a split, try upper and lower. So you might do flat BB bench, bent over BB row, military press, and stiff leg deadlifts on day one (that's all, just make them intense and that'll be plenty enough work).

Lower day you could do BB squats, Bulgarian split squats, calf raises, and leg presses.

Just a few examples.

I would suggest a lower/upper split or fullbody split.

It burns more calories, will get you in overall shape faster, you don't need to spend so much time in the gym and you will get stronger faster in most lifts because you will be using them more often.

Sounds like you just had a healthy ego check. :tu:

heh heh, true true.

Today i will go in to do shoulders/arms.
However I will focus on the basics, and not go crazy. I will check into see how things are going.