Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Tuesday

Chain Bench:
205+30 lbs of chain x 8 sets of three
225+ chain x 1
245+ chain x 1
265+ chain x .99 (I'll explain)

Hand Stand Push Ups: BW x 8,6,4
w/
Pull Ups: BW x 8,8,8

Fat Bar Cheat Curls: x 8,8,12

Fat Gripz Rope Push Downs: 3x12

2" Rope Climbs: I'd guess about 25-30 feet to the top x 3

I think I'm starting to settle in to a more structured routine.  It's going to look like this:

Monday: Heavy Lower
Tuesday: Upper
Wednesday: Olympic Lifts
Thursday: Speed focused Lower
Friday: Upper
Saturday: Body weight stuff, gun show, and auxiliary
Sunday: off

I'm going to play around with this set up for a bit and see how it goes.  I'm sure some tweaks will need to be made here and there.

About that .99 lift during chain bench.  Every lifter has experienced the feeling of grinding, grinding, grinding a lift and needing that 1% help from the spotter.  The actual help that the spotter gives could probably be measured in ounces.  If you haven't ever experienced this it is one of the more frustrating things in the strength world.  To know that you were a half a pound away from completing the lift is like a kick to the nuts.  You know that if you had it to do all over again you could change a thing or two and get the lift.  But you can't give it another go because you just wasted all you energy and busted a few blood vessels trying to get that last one.  Oh well.  Live, learn, keep moving forward.

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