My groin is still hurting at the moment, so I decided to take it easy on the legs today. I went for a fifteen minute run o the treadmill, just 9kmh, even then I could feel my groin twinging…
After my run, I moved onto the leg press machine, and decided I would do higher reps [...]
First exercise is shoulder press, an exercise that I’ve been really enjoying for the last few weeks, mainly because I’ve been getting a really good workout from it. This has been down to the fact that I’ve been following the principles of heavy duty training, mainly on the shoulder press where I take my time over [...]
I’ve been using the heavy duty training principles that were pioneered by Mike Mentzer back in the 1970’s for the last six weeks or so, and as such have decided to write up a quick guide to what I’m talking about in my regular training journal posts.
To summarise quickly, heavy duty training principles centre around [...]
Wednesday - shoulders
I’ve moved my shoulder workout from a Thursday to a Wednesday so that I can do legs on a Thursday, leaving biceps and triceps for Fridays. The reasoning being that I wanted to have enough time between chest and back (Monday/Tuesday) and biceps/triceps for recovery. Last week I did my biceps on Wednesday [...]
Wednesday - biceps and triceps
Biceps
I started off with my biceps this morning, my first exercise was bicep cable curls which I really enjoy. I decided that I would do a couple of drop sets today to get a bit more work done, here’s the weights and reps:
First drop set
30kg x 9 reps
25kg x 4 reps
20kg x [...]
I’m back in the gym again after having a week off last week. I really enjoyed my week off from the point of view that it was nice to have a change to the routine, but by the end of the week I was itching to get back into the gym. I felt like all [...]
