Well back in the gym after National Masters and it is conditioning time. Now I live in Texas and it is June and hot. The temperature outside is 90 and humid. So On Wednesday we begin 4 weeks of circuit training. That’s right learing masses, circuit training. We did 3 circuits consisting of lat pulldowns 15 reps each with the stack set to 130. Then to bent over rows 12 reps with 135. Then to seated cable rows 15 reps with 120 and narrow grip, then to barbell curls 15 reps with 50 lbs, then hammer curls 15 reps with 20lbs. After doing this we did cable side bends sets of 10 with the whole damn stack, then 20 reps leg raises on side of a bench. The whole workout took 30 minutes.
Then today first thing was 3 laps pulling a sled totalling 100lbs and each lap was about 300 feet. This in the Texas sun. By the way my training partner was absent today due to work. Yeah right the wuss was still sick after yesterday. Then 3 circuits in gym with good mornings 10 reps 135 lbs, leg extensions 15 reps and 60lbs, then to jump squats 10 reps onto a 18inch box holding 15lb dumbbells, then reverse hypers 12 reps with 70lbs on bar. Then hanging leg raises 20 reps each.
Now try these workouts and show you don’t have tofu farts.
It’s an impressive workout. But isn’t the sun in Texas the same one that is everywhere on this earth? I’m going to review my astronomy notes, but I think I’m right:|
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
It’s an impressive workout. But isn’t the sun in Texas the same one that is everywhere on this earth? I’m going to review my astronomy notes, but I think I’m right:|
DB[/quote]
Yessir, the sun is the same but if you remember your grade school geography the earth bulges as you near the equator, thus Texas (and Florida, wherein I reside)is closer to the sun than it would be in Michigan. The sun is also nearer the tropics in the summer. Resulting in f*#cking hot summer sun that will scorch the hair off most yankee asses!
[quote]michaelv wrote:
The sun is the same. The angle it hits the earth isn’t.
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Word!
Intensity is directly proportional to the angle of incidence (at the equator the angle is nearly 90 deg year round). Which is why the equator tends not to have any ice near it. This is also why we have seasons–not because we are closer to the sun, which is only true in january.
The sun does hit harder than say Missouri, Iowa, Wisc, Montana, or Minnesota other states where I have lived.
However, the humidity is not as bad as those except for Montana.
What is fun is watching my younger partner pulling the sled and complaining. I simply do 2 laps in a row and tell him to rest properly because of his age. Damn I am evil.
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
michaelv wrote:
The sun is the same. The angle it hits the earth isn’t.
I thought so. For a while there he had me thinking that Texans were so arrogant as to have their own sun.
True about the sun, but what is fun for me is watching them here complaining about cold in winter when it is 20 degrees. When I lived in Glendive Montana we had daytime highs of 20 below zero. Freezes the big hair around here.
[quote]cleansnatch wrote:
DB
Yessir, the sun is the same but if you remember your grade school geography the earth bulges as you near the equator, thus Texas (and Florida, wherein I reside)is closer to the sun than it would be in Michigan. The sun is also nearer the tropics in the summer. Resulting in f*#cking hot summer sun that will scorch the hair off most yankee asses!
[quote]Senseial wrote:
Freezes the big hair around here.
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I like that! btw, I was being a smartass about the sun, but sarcasm doesn’t come across the internet well. I realize that it is hotter in TX than in yankee land because of the angle of the sun.
Or try Alaska, get nice and sweaty in the gym then step outside and the snot freezes inside your nose as you open the door. Quite invigorating.
At least the summers are nice and hot for a few weeks.
BTW-that seems like a good workout session you are doing, is it part of a cycle and if so how long are you doing doing before alternating to something else like heavy lifting or so on?
When I lived in Minnesota I would get ready for a big lift by breathing in the sub zero cold air in wintertime.
Yes it is part of a 4 week conditioning program. For bench we do dumbbell bench presses, incline dumbbell press, decline dumbbell press seated dumbbell military press, french presses and pressdowns. Then after 3 circuits of that we do ab and trunk work.
It is good stuff.
[quote]salchabasil wrote:
Or try Alaska, get nice and sweaty in the gym then step outside and the snot freezes inside your nose as you open the door. Quite invigorating.
At least the summers are nice and hot for a few weeks.
BTW-that seems like a good workout session you are doing, is it part of a cycle and if so how long are you doing doing before alternating to something else like heavy lifting or so on?[/quote]
[quote]Senseial wrote:
Well back in the gym after National Masters and it is conditioning time. Now I live in Texas and it is June and hot. The temperature outside is 90 and humid. So On Wednesday we begin 4 weeks of circuit training. That’s right learing masses, circuit training. We did 3 circuits consisting of lat pulldowns 15 reps each with the stack set to 130. Then to bent over rows 12 reps with 135. Then to seated cable rows 15 reps with 120 and narrow grip, then to barbell curls 15 reps with 50 lbs, then hammer curls 15 reps with 20lbs. After doing this we did cable side bends sets of 10 with the whole damn stack, then 20 reps leg raises on side of a bench. The whole workout took 30 minutes.
Then today first thing was 3 laps pulling a sled totalling 100lbs and each lap was about 300 feet. This in the Texas sun. By the way my training partner was absent today due to work. Yeah right the wuss was still sick after yesterday. Then 3 circuits in gym with good mornings 10 reps 135 lbs, leg extensions 15 reps and 60lbs, then to jump squats 10 reps onto a 18inch box holding 15lb dumbbells, then reverse hypers 12 reps with 70lbs on bar. Then hanging leg raises 20 reps each.
Now try these workouts and show you don’t have tofu farts.[/quote]
Sounds like a formula to lose a lot of strength. At what point in this training are you going to actually start lifting some weight?
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
It’s an impressive workout. But isn’t the sun in Texas the same one that is everywhere on this earth? I’m going to review my astronomy notes, but I think I’m right:|
DB[/quote]
You’ve never spent a summer in Texas, have you?
I have no A/C in my gym. Just a little fan. It’s a brick building with no windows. When it is 90 outside it’s 100 inside - you’re either puking or sweating many times I am doing both.
I’m going to try that circuit and rate it on my puke-o-meter. Sounds like a ball breaking good time.
Actually we do it for 4 weeks then start regular powerlifting training. This type of training actually has helped us to train harder during the off season, which translates to gains in strength in meet training. Biggest thing comes in when you convert to powerlifting from strength. So when we get doing sets of 5 and less reps we do strict powerlifting form. In other words, full depth squats, pausing reps on chest in the bench, and full lockouts on deadlifts.
Sounds like a formula to lose a lot of strength. At what point in this training are you going to actually start lifting some weight?