'Core Muscles' Abs / Back Strength & exercises
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[quote name='BartMan']<br />
and picked up a couple hundred bales of hay last night fund raising for rugby club - that's a pretty good upper body workout too!! Although with 4 of us, it was hard to raise a sweat!<br />
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That's good work. When I was in school I worked summers at a building supply yard. I spent a lot of my time loading and unloading pallets containing about 40 100 pound bags of cement mix. In the heat of summer. Then I used to have to deliver it to contractors, and unload by hand. Hard yakka I can tell you. I did this job for about a year. I was built like a brick shithouse in those days. I wouldn't want to do it again though. After having part of a disc surgically removed from my back last year thanks to heavy squatting, I think my heavy lifting days are over. -
deadlifts. Forgot how much they hurt the day after.<br />
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Did three sets, 10 reps, at 60kg - so not a great weight. but by christ my Hammies the next day thought I had just lifted a word record weight!!<br />
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But they are GREAT, I love them, MORE, MOREÂ
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There are no better exercises for overall power and total body training than deadlifts and squats. Actually, you can build plenty of muscle and overall size (if that's the sort of thing you are after) by focusing solely on three exercises and lifting heavy:<br />
<br />- Deadlifts<br />
- Squats<br />
- Bench press<br />
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That's it. Throw in some ab work and aerobic training, and you've got the best possible workout for building muscular strength. When I was younger, I went from training 6-7 days a week, sometimes twice per day, to training only 3 times a week and focusing only on power movements--the three above. If power is your objective, this is the way to train. But be prepared to buy new suits and trousers, because you will put on size at a rapid rate if you train properly.
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Yes, followed a programme for a while doing just that - three days a week, one each day you would cane one exercise heavy heavy and low low reps, other two exercise just heavy and mid low reps.<br />
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ALmost killed you, but was awesome, Imiss all that mad headed rugby training! Used to train with my prop, who was bigger and stronger than me - each time I would catch up in the weights department he'd pull ahead again. Everyhwere but deadlift - would beat him there, legs pretty equal, chest he was too much!!
