Saturday, January 21, 2012

heavy, heavy, rest time

this is almost the end of my heavy  heavy phase. starting at the end of next week ill be switching to 20 reps! more on that later.
     i rest between each exercise . during todays routines and fridays routines i use about a 2 minute rest. but...on my experimental wednesday routine i try to take no rest between exercises and use about a 2 minute rest between sets. muscle confusion, semi cardio etc
squat 8x130
calfraise 8x130
bench press 8x160
arnold press 8x30
seated dumbbell extension 8x30
kickbacks 8x30
dips 12
pushups 14
military press 10x70
     here we go :
sqt i actually do the squat and calf raise as one exercise
calfraise  see above. form still not good. i SHOULD  use warm up sets but i dont. dont hate me.
bench press only partials. but... one day. in a couple of months i will hit my goal of 170 (no snickering please) then i will do at least a 30 lb drop so i can do complete movements. then begins the very slow build back up..
arnold press well, this is more the way it should be. that is, heavy enough so i can just barely finish the exercise but with very good form. the reason why i think many articles stress proper form is that  that way you use a complete movement thus exercising the  part more thoroughly thru a wide range of motion
seated dumbbell extension i like the feeling of my triceps after arnold press followed by seated dumbbell extension
kickbacks adds just a little more spice to the tris.
dips ohhhhh, that is borderline pain for shoulder. dont want to push it too much
pushups what a nice feeling, full range, exercise (so far)
military press 9 very good fast form, 1 partial. still panting a little
well, thats the end of this rotation. next friday i will drop ( thats righ, i said drop) 10 lbs ( 5 on the dumbbells) and switch to 20 reps . it is the most tiring frustrating, challenging, almost fun part of my rotations. as ive said before the guidelines for this come from my hero clarence bass lean for life book.
later,
fred from nashville

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