Gymming proceeds!

During the past month, my attendance to the gym has been horrible since I wasn't able to attend it for a couple of weeks and due to the one day holidays during last two weeks. Now though, it has started very well. Me and Francesco are continuing our work outs with the same weights as we stopped them. 

I have managed to regularly but slowly to increase the weight for my work outs. Still a long way towards the goal, however it is managable. Today was our chest work out day and I managed to do bench press sets with the weight of 47.5 kg. Next time I do my chest work out, I have planned to try at least one set with 50 kg. Slowly but firmly. Although our work outs have continued normally, we made a slight decrease in weights regarding some of the exercises in order to improve our form because we weren't able to lift the weights we used to do in the most correct and useful way (Peter's advice). In fact, I can see a change now because as I'm able to have a proper form for my lifts, I can feel my muscles more exhausted. Which means that I can learn the proper form and again start slowly increasing the amount of weight.

I am back to leg work outs as my knees don't hurt anymore so it was actually good to have a small break from attending the gym. Also I think that it is generally good for muscles to have a rest. My physical shape has significantly improved since I started working out and I actually think that I have managed to lose fat as well.

Я ИГРАЮ...

Lately I have been working on two songs from which the first one is Gaiden's 'Andante' and the second one is Kriger's Minuet in Minor. I still need to practice with the second one, although I am posting a video of me playing the first one. Later on when I can fluently play the 'Minuet in Minor' I will post a video of it as well.

So far I have nearly achieving my goal of learning to play songs with two hands yet, I haven't reached the level to play a full length song. Last weekend my teacher was showing me how to form cords in the right way and how they should be constructed. Firstly, it was very confusing but after a while I started to understand the idea of it, though I will be still practicing them in the coming lessons. Now I'm mainly practicing one etude. Next weekend, my teacher said that I will start practicing Chaikovski's 'Old French song' which will be a challenge for me.

Playing the Chaikovski's song will be one of the aims that my teacher set me. She said that I will have learned to play 3 'songs' from famous compositors before the summer starts. I think I will manage to achieve the goals.

Andante

P.S. I have been working on a rap beat melody on the piano to what I have added my own beatboxing as beat. Some day when I'll manage to fully complete it, perhaps I might insert the notes and beats to a computer programme or I'll just make a video of me playing it.