Sunday, December 13, 2009

A week of moderate gains

I havent posted in a while, but here is the lowdown...
Last week, Fri and Sat I did back/arms and legs/abs on Saturday. I took Sunday and Monday off and hit it hard on Tuesday in the AM. I was in a hotel gym, so I had to be creative given the fact that the heaviest weight they had was a 50lb dumbbell, so I supersetted. I did dumbell bench with a superset of pushups 3x10 reps and 10 pushups. I did incline bench the same way with a super set and then hit the machine. I was so spent that the weight on the machine is not worth mentioning. My arms were so spent that I did a half ass attempt at tricep (prison curls)... I ended with 20 minutes of cardio.

The next day, I worked shoulders, biceps, abs and did sprint/interval training. My shoulders are the weakest part and it hurts my bench. The craziest part of this was not the weight workout but the interval workout. I ran 9mph on the treadmill for a minute and a half and jogged in between. I did 4 sets of this an my legs were sore the next day. I took a break Thursday and Friday and on Saturday, I could only get in a back workout (chin ups, lat pull downs, overhead lat pull downs and 15 minutes of cardio). It wasnt my best showing as I was under the gun.

On Sunday, I did shoulders and biceps that started with clean and jerks overhead 95lbs 115lbs and 135lbs 5-8 reps(could not get this overhead). Military press, 90 lbs, 140lbs, 160 lbs and dumbell extensions. I then did curls (75lbs, 95lbs, 75lbs)...Arm extensions on the cable (50lbs), dumbell curls 30lbs each, 50lbs each arm max and ended on the machine 50lbs, 30lbs, 10lbs max of 20 reps each to failure. This ended with sprint cardio (1 mins) 10-11mph. My sides hurt.

Tomorrow, its bench and tris with mileage for cardio. I am close to hitting the 145 mark with more than 6 reps on the clean and jerk.

Tuesday will be legs to failure and I will take Weds and Thurs off and hit it hard on Friday morning. Gains are a coming, albeit slower than I would like. The week of the 21st will be a test to compare where I was when I started.

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