Todays workout:
Nice one and still feeling much stronger, and actually can feel the new muscle in the biceps especially. There was, in hindsight, as I said previously, a lot of bloat that I was ignorant to. I’m much happier with the way I look now. It’s incredible how that other look just went away. This is how I thought I should have looked with the intake of calories I was consuming and all. And it is what I look like without the bloat.
Bottom line, I didn’t record the effects of bloat accurately at all. Sorry. Part of that was the half dosed adex I was taking and thinking that, at this high dose I can’t have any bloat, it must be just extra fat I’m holding from trying to eat a little more. Ha, haaaa… whatever I’m chuckling at it now.
Ok, enough rambling on, here’s how it went down today.
Oh, and I’m changing the delt circuit to twice weekly, M/W, and doing the 2 min delt warmup complex on Fridays now.
BB ROWS, SUPINE GRIP: 3X7 Last used this grip over a month and a half ago, so the weight would be up, but it’s still up even higher than I would think coming back to this grip. That strategy worked great Schwarz, I gotta hand it to ya on that idea with some of the exercises. Here’s another thing, I really like this grip over the prone.
Reason being, 1.For me, I feel it where I should, ie:target musculature of upper back, WAY more than with the other grip. 2. I am able to hold the top of the movement easily, even at higher weight than the prone grip. 3. My lower back stays out of the movement much more over the prone grip.
Damn if that doesn’t kick ass. But the switch is good, I remember sort of “topping off” last time I was in this grip, before switching to the lighter weight of the prone grip. And now I’m sailing past the other limit of weight first day back. I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t switched, as I was well into gear mode when “topping off” last time. So that reaffirms the frequency of subtle changes that Schwarz put into the routine whether it was grips, or sets/reps on the money movements,(think box squats week to week, 4x6,5x5,6x4,8x3). Let me shutup again.
LT: Jan 4,2008: 135/7, 155/7, 175/6, 155/7.
TT: 135/7, 155/7, 175/7, 185/7. With nice holds
DB ROWS: 3X10. Just added these to interim routine.
35/10, 52.5/10, 65/10,65/10.
These felt like air, I need to get some more big boy DB’s asap. I am now able to contract and hold and isolate/feel the target muscles do their job on these much more than before this venture starte a couple months or more ago.
Shoulder joint feels much more stable in exercises as a result of all the rehab delt work.
DB REAR LATERAL RAISE: 3X20
SAME as usual. 10/20, 15/20, 15/20.
PREACHER CURLS: 40/20, 70/10, 90/7, 80/10.
This is considerably better than recent preachers with both arms. No loss of strength here either.
CONCENTRATION CURLS: 3X10. Added to increase peak in interim routine after both bicep days, W/F.
35/10, 35/8-9(L/R), 30/10. Nice holds on top.
ToneBone Bi Pump.
INCLINE DB CURL: 1X50.
10’s. paused after 30, and 40, to finish with 50.
So, there was todays, happy after feeling so out of it yesterday. I did manage to go back out there last night and finally finish off calves and abs from yesterdays wkout that I couldn't hack through. Just one of those days I guess it was. So, anyway I checked the arm measurement again now that the bloat is gone.
So with just a bicep pump, they were both at 17.5". That’s good, since the tri makes up 2/3 anyway and no tri pump at all. I think last time I measured them was after working both, and they topped off at I believe 17.75" that day.
So it went well today, and like I said, the no bloat look is much nicer to see!
have a great one fellas!
ToneBone