Onwards and upwards - target 2012...
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well, that leg workout kicked in overnight. Calves, glutes the main victims, quads are collateral damage. Hamstrings still in their bunkers, relatively unscathed, maybe just a little shell shock in sympathy with the rest of the leg muscles!<br />
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Today was a cardio day, but could not get into it, so did ten minutes bursts on treadmill, bike, rower, treadmill. <br />
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Sounds like what I was gonna write Bart. Woke up and the legs were aching big time which meant todays cardio was a bit difficult. Did 15mins on the bike before 25mins HIIT on the crosstrainer and then abs as well. <br />
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Hobbling around the office now though. Quads and glutes for me too. -
shitm legs twice as bad today as yesterday, Quads full blown in the pain department, glutes and calves continue on their merry painful way, but ratcheted up a couple of notches.<br />
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Today was our first new shoulder workout - a cracker, 2 mega sets (triple set, but mega sounds better) a and a super set. felt like a puffer fish at the end of the workout. Loving having a few extra kilos on now, looking like a big arse bodybuilder at the gym, instead of the lean mean competing machine of a few short weeks ago! -
right, add back to the list of pain, legs now with festering infections from the knife wounds of two days ago, still difficult to walk, now feel bruised to touch! Back stiff from shrugs yesterday (think i found my limit, 180kg), and today's dead lifts, up to 150kg for 6 reps will have finished me off just nicely...
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heavy deadlifts yesterday and the calves today are sorererer even still. Today was cardio, so slammed out 25 minutes on the treadmill, preceded by 10 minutes on the bike and ten on the rower. Was good to be slamming those legs down and shaking up the muscles, felt a lot free-er afterwards.<br />
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Hmmm, so much for wussy lunges. They're wrecking me. I have [I]never [/I]had a pump like todays in my quads, [I]ever[/I]. Heavy squats, and then the billion lunges. Makes the next set of heavy squats an adventure in itself. But superb pump, legs wrecked again. My calves were still sore this morning when tensing them before the workout. So seven days is not long enough recovery on this baby!!! Although I am sure the heavy deads on Friday would help on the non recovery of the calves.<br />
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But another great blast this morning, loving these leg workouts. -
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Shoulders today, and a blast once again, loving our current shoulder workout. K-nackered by the end. Shrugs, my eyes were far bigger than my muscles this morning. Loaded the bar up with 200kg, up 20 on last week. Bit off a bit more than I could chew, but felt good to be holding that much weight again! Shrugs were very small!! back to 180 next week! Traps sore as buggery now though, so still working them hard, but not enough range of motion for my liking!
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Do you do front squats at all? Had my first go at them yesterday, pretty cool. I can see how they'd be easier on the back. Mate reckons they are mint for your lower quad muscles. Didn't try to load any weight at first so I could get a handle on the motion.<br />
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That's some solid work on the shrugs. They are one exercise I really enjoy, just load em up! -
yes, we've had front squats in programme before, but not at the moment. Haven't done them much though, and never in a heavy cycle (yet), always high rep stuff.<br />
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Shrugs - fun fun fun, have never really got into them before, but am hammer down at the moment, but certainly at the limit there with the 200!!<br />
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Sooo, Saturday was back, and the king of exercises, the deadlift was up to 155 for 6 reps. Love the brute force-ness of deadlifts. No way you can cheat on a DL, no swinging, no bouncing, no half reps, it's just grunt power!<br />
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Chest this morning, decent workout again, only a week left on the current programme, which gets us down to 2 reps. Start to wondering what Dazza will have us doing next month. -
Lucky legs today, and managed all my lunges without pause today. Which consequently knackered my legs for the squats more!<br />
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So final set of squats 6 X 150, still nice and deep, and then the 20 lunges per leg, bloody killer, getting pumps in my quads like never before.<br />
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Stiff leg dead lifts to finish were cool. Getting used to lifting heavy weights again now too - lifting 100 on these seemed light after last Saturdays full standard deadlifts at 155 or whatever it was. And getting used to having a sore body 24/7!!
