Timed Exercise

Week one:

Hit one group twice a day. Each excercise is performed with square shoulders and a tense torso. If your stomach pushes out or your shoulders move during an excercise that does not specifically require these actions then you need to drop weight.

Warm up everyday with ten pull ups and run through the exercises to be performed with bar/cable/machine empty

First set: 5-7 rep 80% of max, 5-7 rep 50% of max, finish off 2 minute burn with 30% of max

Second set: 5-7 rep 80% of max, 5-7 rep 50% of max, finish off 2.5 minute burn with 30% of max

The first week I broke down each muscle group and ordered them as below:

Shoulders
Front/lateral raises
Upright rows
Dumbbell Shoulder Press

Legs
Squats (half way through each set I switch from standard to wide leg)
Dead lifts (half way through I switch from standard to sumo)
Leg press

Chest
Dumbbell bench
Incline fly
Decline fly

Back
Reverse Fly
Cable row
Lat pull down

Triceps
Overheard dumbbell extensions
Single arm cable push downs
Weighted Dips

Biceps
Dumbbell curl
Cable curl
Dumbbell hammer curl

Cardio day Ab blast x2 sets
25 bicycle
25 mule kicks
25 elbow to knee (actually 50 if you count each direction separately)
25 leg lifts
25 crunches
25 v ups (who invented these horrible things???)

Each week you are to increase the time by 30 seconds. So your second week looks as so:

First set: 5-7 rep 80% of max, 5-7 rep 50% of max, finish off 2.5 minute burn with 30% of max

Second set: 5-7 rep 80% of max, 5-7 rep 50% of max, finish off 3 minute burn with 30% of max

(edited from its original version to reflect what exercises I actually perform)

My supps are:

Pharmapro - Test Stack
Leucine supplement
Creatine/nitric oxide formula (dropped this and added a stand alone creatine)

On order:
I ran out of Muscle Milk so I am going to try

Surge Recovery, Biotest Superfood
&
Biotest BCAAs

With the above information can you tell me what is lacking?

This is the first time I have moved from the standard 3-4 sets of 8-12 reps.

What does the Biotest Superfood and Biotest BCAAs help accomplish?

My menu-

(each meal seperated by two hours)

Breafast one - 3 egg omlet, bowl of oatmeal, bowl of mixed fruits

Breafast two - 3 egg omlet, bowl of nuts, wheat roll

Crap protien - BCAA’s
Gym
Crap protien - BCAA’s

Lunch - Meat choice, bowl of mixed vegetables, potato

Lunch two - Meat choice, bowl of mixed vegetables

Dinner - Meat choice, green vegetables, starch

Crap protien - BCAA’s
Gym
Crap protien - BCAA’s

As you can imagine I feel full all the time… except the day after leg day, I can consume all my meals and desire more on that day.

Hopefully the Biotest Superfood can supplement a meal or two, eating this much is time consuming.

K-
The easiest way to learn about Superfood and other Biotest supps is to read the article 13 Super Stacks or just hit the store and click on something that perks your interest.

Just weight myself and since the 24th of Jan I have added 4 lbs.

4lbs. in two weeks is not that exciting but consider, I have been a ‘dry’ weight of 184 for several months so I am pleased with this new achievement

I just removed the nitric oxide supps. after reading up on them.

New pics will be posted to my profile in the 15th to show my three week progress with this workout/eating plan

Sounds interesting but I’m still busy with the Seinfeld and Kramer Fitness Workouts.

Neumann!

And no offense but your exercise selection leaves little doubt that you’re not really experienced at program design. Only raises and upright rows for shoulders??? Ouch.

Oh, good call on dumping the NO supps.

Right now I am located in Ba’Qubah and up until recently the equipment was limited.

The hard structure they just set is filled with equip so my exercise options just expanded.

I posted the routine on the site because I knew that T-Nation is the home to some of the most experienced lifters and I might receive some advice on what works and what doesn’t.

[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Oh, good call on dumping the NO supps.[/quote]

Yeah, I started looking into it after being directed to a few articles here in T-Nation. Total waste of money, that is 100 a month I can keep.

[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Sounds interesting but I’m still busy with the Seinfeld and Kramer Fitness Workouts.

Neumann!

And no offense but your exercise selection leaves little doubt that you’re not really experienced at program design. Only raises and upright rows for shoulders??? Ouch.[/quote]

OKed extra time during break and added

x2 sets Dumbbell Shoulder Press, to the shoulder day.

This makes a huge difference and two days after the workout my shoulders are still reminding me of the abuse they endured.


My right lat is lagging in development. You can see the difference already, though I am no where near my goal

What my back looked like before beginning

The program is working better than I had anticipated, though it is difficult getting used to tracking time rather than reps.

Tracking reps gives you something to shoot for where as timed excercise has no specific number of reps needed to complete the set.

After this 6 weeks rep based routines are going to seem…

Finished leg day - 3 1/2 minutes first set and 4 minutes second set for both squats and dead lifts using 135.

Feel like I am going to waste the protein I just downed. The d*mn local exchange needs to started selling something other than that nasty azz mass produced protein. Thinking about it is making me sick.

Did 2 sets of ten on the leg press to finish up the day. I reached ten and was like… that is it?

I have added mixed nuts to my menu, which I snack on throughout the day. They keep me drinking the gallon plus a day I am needing to stay hydrated.

Just checked my ‘dry’ weight and I am 193.5! That is almost a 10LB. gain since I began.

I am going on R&R tomorrow… Fianlly after 7 months!!!

Unfortunately my timed exercise experiment was cut short. I was only able to train from about the:

24th of Jan - 1 Feb. then missions prevented me from training again until about

5 Feb. thru 21 Feb. (tomorrow)

Progress pics

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