Breinhardt's Star Complex Log

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Front DB Biceps

Front Lat

Most Muscular

Fasted today until after my workout. Felt FUCKIN’ GREAT TODAY!!! Tons of energy while training too bad it was only a neural charge workout and some bi’s and lats :\ Oh, well gonna carry it over into tomorrow’s session and MURDER IT!

Training - NEURAL CHARGE & BICEPS

Box Jumps x 3 - 5
MB Snatch Throws x 3 - 5
Power Skips for height x 5 each leg
Land-mine Pivot press x 3 each arm
Speed DB from floor x 3 each arm

BICEPS

Rev. DB Curl 4 x 10
AR Thor’s Hammer Pro/Supination’s 4 x 10

DB Hammer curl 4 x 10
AR Single arm Sledgehammer strikes 4 x 10 each

Wide elbow rope cable curl 4 x 10
Lft. Arm Wide Elbow DB curl 4 x 10
AR Wrist Ext. 4 x 10 each

BB curl 4 x 10
Lft. Arm Supination curl 4 x 10

(Used straight sets changing wgt every set)

Lft. Arm DB Row 2 x 10
Lft. Arm Lat Pull 2 x 10

Trying to bring up my left biceps and left lat because i’m so right side dominate

MURDERED IT!

SQUAT COMPLEX

Top 1/2 Squat x 4
AR Calf raise machine shrug x 10

Front Squat 175 x 4
AR Rope Straight arm pull down x 10

Snatch from hang 105 x 4
AR Bent DB Row x 10

Squat Jumps 20 DB x 9
AR Prone Rear Delt DB Swings x 10-15

Vertical Jumps BW x 9

Tire backpedal x 30ft.

4 Rounds

OHP COMPLEX

Top 1/2 seat OHP 175 x 4
AR Face pull 2 x 8-10

Standing OHP 125 x 4
AR Band pull apart 2 x 8-10

Push Press 125 x 4
AR DB Y’s 2 x 8-10

Med Ball OHP 6 kgs x 9
AR DB L’s 2 x 8-10

Speed DB Press 20x :25

Prowler OHP Pattern x 30ft.

4 Rounds

Only did AR with the first 2 rounds of the OHP complex. Performance decreased slightly. But, the good thing is tomorrow’s FRIDAY and it’s deadlift day and that means it’s my favorite lift of the FUCKING WEEK! SO THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO AND THAT IS GO NUCLEAR ON THIS WORKOUT AND ENJOY THE WEEKEND BABY!

Deadlifted and bench pressed today. Naturally it was awesome.

Ramped wgts for warm up

BENCH PRESS COMPLEX

Top 1/2 bench 265 x 4
AR Heavy Partial lateral raise x 8

Bench press 225 x 4
AR Lateral raise x 8

MB chest pass 6 kgs x 9
AR Lateral raise OH x 8

Incline plyo push-up BW x 9
AR Seated Incline lateral raise x 10

Speed DB bench 30 x :25

Prowler chest press x 30ft.

4 Rounds

DL COMPLEX

Top 1/2 DL 475 x 4
AR Heavy Partial Front Raise x 8

DL floor 345 x 4
AR Front Raise x 8

Hang Clean 145 x 4
AR Front Raise OH x 8

Clean jumps 145 x 9
AR Laying on Flat Bench Front Raise x 10

Broad jumps BW x 9

Slow Prowler push x 30ft.

Completely smoked after this workout. Another great deadlifting day as usual. If deadlifting is one the docket for the day is always going to be a good day!

Didn’t realize what time my gym closed today, so I had 45 minutes or so to CRUSH LATS

The rest of my posted didn’t go up dunno what happened… :\

LATS - Minimal rest between sets

A1. Kayak rows 4 x 8 each side and 1 in the middle

No rest between exercise changes
B1. Rope straight arm pull-down x 8-10
B2. Kneeling forward lean rope pull-down x 8-10
B3. Kneeling backward lean rope row (to navel) x 8-10
AR. Cable OH Tri. Ext. x 8-10
4 Rounds

No rest between exercise changes
C1. Forward lean Rope straight arm pull-down x 8-10
C2. Standing Rope row (to navel) x 8-10
C3. Standing neutral pull-down (to navel) x 8-10
AR. Incline close push-ups x till good fatigue feeling
3 Rounds

Finished Lats of with wide neutral rows to navel 2 x 8 sec. hold, 6 sec. hold, 4 sec. hold then 1 rep

ALL THIS WORK IN ABOUT 3O min. OR SO, AWESOME TRAINING DENSITY!

BICEPS

A1. Rev. DB Curl x 8-10
A2. DB Hammer curl x 8-10
A3. Wide elbow DB curl x 8-10
A4. Barbell curl x x 8-10 (bar only)
4 Rounds

Used constant tension technique with no rest between exercise change never putting down the weight. Also, decreased weight every new round. AWESOME FOREARM AND BICEPS PUMP!


After Lats & bi’s yesterday

Going 6 rounds of each complex all week then I’m going to take a deload week. Not gonna lie, 6 rounds was damn tough, but it did all of them with pretty good performance.

Training

Ramped weights for warm-up

OHP COMPLEX

Top 1/2 seat OHP 175 x 5
AR Rev. grip cable EZ curl x 8

Standing OHP 125 x 5
AR Hammer curl x 8

Push Press 125 x 5
AR Narrow DB curl x 8

Med Ball OHP 6 kgs x 10
AR Supination curl x 10

Speed DB Press 20x :25

Prowler OHP Pattern x 30ft.

6 Round

Top 1/2 Squat 475 x 5
AR Calf raise machine shrug x 8

Front Squat 175 x 5
AR Wide Neutral Pull-up x 6

Snatch from hang 105 x 5
AR Bent DB Row x 8

Squat Jumps 20 DB x 10
AR Prone Rear Delt DB Swings x 12

Vertical Jumps BW x 10

Tire backpedal x 30ft.

6 Rounds

Keeping focused was the hardest part of this workout, but it will pay off big next week!

Today was deadlift and bench day and I got murdered by the weights today :\ 6 rounds on the deadlift complex is a FUCKING BITCH!! Today was a humbling experience, talk about having to take your medicine.

Ramped wgts for warm up

DL COMPLEX

Top 1/2 DL 475 x 5
AR Lat pull down x 8

DL floor 345, 315, 315, 315, 315, 315 x 5 (last 2 reps of the first set were grinders, so I had to decrease weight)
AR Neutral Pull down x 8

Hang Clean 145 x 5
AR Straight Arm Pull Down x 8

Clean jumps 145 x 10
AR KB Lateral Raise x 10

Broad jumps BW x 10

Slow Prowler push x 30ft.

6 Rounds

Ramped wgts for warm up

BENCH PRESS COMPLEX

Top 1/2 bench 265 x 5
AR Bent-over Y’s x 8

Bench press 225 x 4
AR Bent-over T’s x 8

MB chest pass 6 kgs x 9
AR Bent-over W’s x 8

Incline plyo push-up BW x 9
AR Bent-over L’s x 10

Speed DB bench 30 x :25

Prowler chest press x 30ft.

5 Rounds of all the exercises then did the 1st and 2nd exercises and then finished. Mostly because I was wiped out and was running out on time. Neural charge tomorrow.

Nice little neural charge and biceps workout today. Felt nice :slight_smile:

Training - NEURAL CHARGE & BICEPS

Box Jumps x 3 - 5
Decline Speed Bench w/ chains x 3 - 5
Explosive Concentric Pull-ups x 3 - 5
Power Skips for height x 5 each leg
Land-mine Single arm push press x 3 each arm

BICEPS - Constant Tension Technique for all

Rev. DB Curl 6 x 6

Prone Incline DB Hammer curl 6 x 6

Wide elbow EZ bar cable curl 6 x 6
Lft. Arm Wide Elbow DB curl 6 x 6 - 10

Standing EZ curl 6 x 6
Lft. Arm Supination curl 6 x 6 - 10

Need to post a couple days of training. Here is thursday’s.

SQUAT COMPLEX

Top 1/2 Squat 475 x 5
AR Calf raise machine shrug x 8

Front Squat 175 x 5
AR Wide Neutral Pull-up x 6

Snatch from hang 105 x 5
AR Bent DB Row x 8

Squat Jumps 20 DB x 10
AR Prone Rear Delt DB Swings x 12

Vertical Jumps BW x 10

Tire backpedal x 30ft.

6 Rounds

Ramped weights for warm-up

OHP COMPLEX

Top 1/2 seat OHP 175 x 5

Standing OHP 125 x 5

Push Press 125 x 5

Med Ball OHP 6 kgs x 10

Speed DB Press 20x :25

Prowler OHP Pattern x 30ft.

6 Round

No AR with the OHP

ASSISTANCE

French Press 4 x 8
Weighted Neutral Pull-ups 4 x 6 - 8

Friday’s modified workout. Hardly had any focus for complexes today, and deadlifting was not going to happen today so i turned this session into a massive bench press day.

Ramped wgts for warm up

BENCH PRESS COMPLEX

Top 1/2 bench 265 x 5
AR Band Pull apart x 8

Bench press 225 x 4
AR Bent-over Y’s x 8

MB chest pass 6 kgs x 9
AR Bent-over W’s x 8

Incline plyo push-up BW x 9
AR Bent-over L’s x 10

Speed DB bench 30 x :25

Prowler chest press x 30ft.

3 rounds

MINI BENCH COMPLEX

Rev. Band Bench 265, 275, 285, x 3

Bench Press 225 x 3

Prowler Chest Press throws x 30ft.

Really got into this and did 4 Rounds

Finished up with some Prone incline DB swings John Meadows style 3 x 30 with 25 lb. KB’s

Saturday’s Lat’s &Biceps. This was a really good session. Really went after the weights.

LAT’S

A1. Kayak rows 4 x 8 each side and 1 in the middle
AR. Tri. Press downs

No rest between exercise changes

B1. Rope straight arm pull-down x 8-10
B2. Kneeling forward lean rope pull-down x 8-10
B3. Kneeling backward lean rope row (to navel) x 8-10
AR. Close push-ups x till good fatigue feeling
4 Rounds

No rest between exercise changes

C1. Forward lean Rope straight arm pull-down x 8-10
C2. Standing Rope row (to navel) x 8-10
C3. Standing neutral pull-down (to navel) x 8-10
AR. Cable OH Tri. Ext. x 8 - 10
4 Rounds

BICEPS - Went as heavy as possible using constant tension for lower end reps

Rev. DB Curl 4 x 6
AR Thor’s hammer pronation/supinations

Alternating windmill curls 4 x 6 very tough trying to keep both biceps flexed the whole set, but very good contraction
AR Single arm Sledgehammer strikes 4 x 10 each arm

Wide Elbow Rope Curl w/ chains attached to the rope 4 x 10 -12 this was on a whim. Good exercise with some heavy chains especially at the peak contraction

Chain Supination Curls w/ partials 4 x 10 Griped the collars that go onto the bars and curled it that way. The partials made it very challenging

FINISHER

100m hill sprints x 5 Started on flat land for 30 - 40m and the rest was steep uphill. Good last workout of this 6 weeks. Progress photos and measurements tomorrow morning then deloading for the next week.

8/22/2011

First six weeks measurements with star complexes

Weight - 217 lbs (+1.4)
Neck - 16.5 (-0)
Chest - 41 (-0)
Waist - 34.25 (-.25)
HIps - 41 (-0)
Thighs - R: 25.5 (-0) L: 25.5 (-0)
Calves - R: 15.75 (+0.25) L: 16 (+0.25)
Biceps - R: 15 (+0.25) L: 15 (+.5)

Weight is up, and measurements are all the same basically. I dunno this kind of baffles me

Monday was the start of my deload week. I am deloading as CT described in this spill http://www.T-Nation.com/strength-training-topics/1254 .

MONDAY

10 min. of various jumps, box jumps, broad jumps, and depth jumps couple set of each 3 - 5 jumps apiece

Sumo deadlift ramping sets of 3, started at 225 and added 15-20 lbs. up to 330 no clue on # of sets

RDL’s 3 x 10

Seated Med. Width Neutral Row 3 x 10

Lat Pull over machine 3 x 10

TUESDAY

10 min. of MB chest passes and plyo push ups 5 reps each

Decline Bench Press ramping sets of 3, started at 135 and added 10 -15 lbs up to 250, # of sets unknown

Low Incline DB Flys 3 x 10

Lateral Raise 3 x 10

Dips 3 x 10

After this did some low intensity cardio for 25 min. Also, I must have been retaining some major water cause my weight is down to 213 this morning. I think that what I’ll chalk it up to.

Short NEURAL CHARGE today

A1. Seated box jumps x 3 - 5 various box heights
A2. Speed Incline Bench x 3
A3. Explosive Concentric Pull-ups x 5
A4. Squat Jumps x 5
A5. MB Slams x 5

20 min. or so, 3 rounds

After 25 min. of treadmill w/ 10% grade @ 3.2 mph