- Oct 28, 2007
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I didn't really sleep so went to the gym at 5:30am. I trained chest and quads and kept it a bit shorter than usual but still done plenty. Although I plan to train legs fairly soon so kept the quad training fairly basic. I started with a variety of db presses and kept the weight to a max of 30kg but done 5 sec negatives and holds at the bottom. Every working set I done was with the 30kg db's. Most times I press I push the weight to the limit so it's good (and wise) to have days like this at times. My workout looked like...
Warm up with db's
Incline DB Chest Press... 4 warm up sets and 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Flat DB Chest Press... 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Decline DB Chest Press... 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Standing Cable Crossovers.... 4 sets standing in the middle in the centre (head down and cables to my sides) and rotated with 4 sets standing in front so a more traditional cable fly with one foot in front of the other. 3 warm up sets and 1 working set for each.
Chest Dips... 2 sets to failure.
Machine Chest Press... 2 warm up sets and 1 working set of 11 reps.
Leg Extensions supersetted with Walking Lunges with a 20kg bag on my shoulders. 2 sets of leg extensions (feet together and then apart) for 20 reps each then 1 set of walking lunges. I repeated this 7 times so 21 sets total and moved up in weight with the leg extensions each set until I finished on the full weight rack. Due to the pace I was failing the 40 rep leg extensions by the end and done some partial reps.
Back and Leg Stretches
Everything is going great but I want to tighten up faster for my holiday. 2 main areas I am going wrong this week is having quite a lot of fruit syrup in water. It's gone so hot here and it tastes so good but it's all sugar. On top of that many of my cottage cheese meal macros are way off with only 20g protein and fairly high carbs (added fruit).
As a result I will be swopping the syrup for lemon water (fresh lemons) and will stop having any fruit juice and whenever I have cottage cheese I will only be able to add low carb fruit such as blueberries, raspberries or chopped strawberries etc. I will also start having 1 scoop of synthepure with my cottage cheese meals to get the protein content up. The rest of my meals will be mainly meat with salad (berries added to the salad). So a very healthy but carb restricted diet for the next few weeks as I go on holiday in July. The majority of my carbs will be consumed around training in the form of HBCD's/Vitargo, rice, pasta and fruit such as pineapple or mandarins.
Warm up with db's
Incline DB Chest Press... 4 warm up sets and 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Flat DB Chest Press... 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Decline DB Chest Press... 3 working sets with 15 deep breaths between each set.
Standing Cable Crossovers.... 4 sets standing in the middle in the centre (head down and cables to my sides) and rotated with 4 sets standing in front so a more traditional cable fly with one foot in front of the other. 3 warm up sets and 1 working set for each.
Chest Dips... 2 sets to failure.
Machine Chest Press... 2 warm up sets and 1 working set of 11 reps.
Leg Extensions supersetted with Walking Lunges with a 20kg bag on my shoulders. 2 sets of leg extensions (feet together and then apart) for 20 reps each then 1 set of walking lunges. I repeated this 7 times so 21 sets total and moved up in weight with the leg extensions each set until I finished on the full weight rack. Due to the pace I was failing the 40 rep leg extensions by the end and done some partial reps.
Back and Leg Stretches
Everything is going great but I want to tighten up faster for my holiday. 2 main areas I am going wrong this week is having quite a lot of fruit syrup in water. It's gone so hot here and it tastes so good but it's all sugar. On top of that many of my cottage cheese meal macros are way off with only 20g protein and fairly high carbs (added fruit).
As a result I will be swopping the syrup for lemon water (fresh lemons) and will stop having any fruit juice and whenever I have cottage cheese I will only be able to add low carb fruit such as blueberries, raspberries or chopped strawberries etc. I will also start having 1 scoop of synthepure with my cottage cheese meals to get the protein content up. The rest of my meals will be mainly meat with salad (berries added to the salad). So a very healthy but carb restricted diet for the next few weeks as I go on holiday in July. The majority of my carbs will be consumed around training in the form of HBCD's/Vitargo, rice, pasta and fruit such as pineapple or mandarins.