2004-01-17 Workout
HIT Fanatic
before them. I get a call at 7:00 AM (on my day off on Saturday) from my
boss because I didn't respond to a pager message that was sent overnight.
Never mind that I don't want my pager to wake up my wife and that I don't
get any extra pay to be on standby/pager duty. This dotcom crash has made
employers more brash into making slaves out of their employees.
Jan 17 workout:
(both sets taken to failure)
Bent-Over Rows 225 lbs 9 reps (same as last time). I tried to do 2 extra
repetitions after failure, but I could not complete the reps, so I lifted as
I would the last failed rep--by trying to keep lifting the bar. I am
experimenting with extra reps after failure to increase the intensity on the
BR and BP to break through my plateaus.
Deadlift 305 lbs 6 reps. Quite a drop in the number of repetitions compared
to the previous workout, but I was lifting an extra 5 lbs. Sometimes even a
little amount of extra weight is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and
it's not uncommon for me to do very low reps of the DL after I increase the
weight.
Jonathan
A bit of advice. People here are not going to want to read a lot more
about your pretty idiotic lifting program. Going to failure on every
set of every exercise, every week, is not a good plan. A program
consisting of two sets every four days is not a well-rounded program.
Take your DL, for example- you'd be much better off cycling the weight
you use, having a back-off week once in every four (for example), and
not going to failure. You would get stronger much more quickly like
that. Take a look at the stuff at www.stumptuous.com. It's just
frustrating listening to someone reporting on their daft program when
they could easily make it much better.
Jonathan
Dally
> I get a call at 7:00 AM (on my day off on Saturday)
Hey, I just saw that movie! It was good. I really, really liked "Jay
and Silent Bob Strike Back" (maybe even more than Dogma) and am glad I
saw Clerks before renting it. I've seen Chasing Amy so now I'm just
missing Mallrats. Is it worth finding and renting?
Dally
Wayne S. Hill
> Deadlift 305 lbs 6 reps. Quite a drop in the number of
> repetitions compared to the previous workout, but I was
> lifting an extra 5 lbs. Sometimes even a little amount of
> extra weight is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and
> it's not uncommon for me to do very low reps of the DL after
> I increase the weight.
That makes no sense. This is all in your head. If you put 300
lbs on the bar, and someone added 5 lbs as you went to get a drink
of water, you'd never know the weight was different.
--
-Wayne
DanL
"Wayne S. Hill" <hil...@asme.org> wrote in message
news:Xns947472...@127.0.0.1...
> That makes no sense. This is all in your head. If you put 300
> lbs on the bar, and someone added 5 lbs as you went to get a drink
> of water, you'd never know the weight was different.
>
He'd be better off microloading .25lbs per week. 5lbs is too big a jump for
deadlifts.
DoctorElefant
Dally da...@myself.com wrote:
Heheh. "Mallrats" is OK, but not as funny as "Clerks."
DocE
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Hugh G. Reckshun
>Date: 1/18/2004 4:55 AM Pacific Standard Time
I certainly want to read about his program. At this point I don't have enough
info to lable it "idiotic" "brilliant" or anything else...
Going to failure on every
>set of every exercise, every week, is not a good plan. A program
>consisting of two sets every four days is not a well-rounded program.<<
If it works for him, why is not a good program?
>
>Take your DL, for example- you'd be much better off cycling the weight
>you use, having a back-off week once in every four (for example), and
>not going to failure. You would get stronger much more quickly like
>that.<<
Evidence?
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Harry Mofo
>...now I'm just missing Mallrats. Is it worth finding and renting?
I don't think so. I recently ran across "Vulgar". Kevin didn't write
it though he does have a role, along with many others in the ViewAskew
crew. It's certainly not your typical clown movie. :-)
--
Harry
"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in
nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious
problem coming down the road. I'm going to prevent that."
George W. Bush Oct 3, 2000