Did some leg work today. No normal squatting, mainly front squats and lots of reps on the leg press machine.
High rep work on the legs is brutal. Pumps are crazy, but not painful like lower back pumps. I did 500 lbs on the leg press machine for 15 reps at 8 sets total, making it 120 reps in all. It was hard to walk.
I'm going back into high weight mode next week. I can't imagine two weeks of high reps, not going to happen.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!
Hey man, seems like you're getting good gains. I liked the Cube method myself. Never realized pumps could get to the point of being that painful, but I'm a rookie when it comes to AAS and hormones.
5-3-1 is also pretty good because you can do the one heavy compound exercise to start and then throw in some volume.
Yeah, its really important to switch it up and have variety. I would always burn out really fast in the past, couldn't figure out why.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!
Chest day today. Kinda did my routine backwards for some reason:
Decline cable flys:
60 x 10
70 x 10
80 x 10
Sitting cable rows
145 x 10
175 x 10
205 x 10
Dumbbell presses
80 x 10
80 x 10
80 x 8
Would have gone higher, but the section of the gym I was in only went to 80's
Lat pulldowns:
145 x 10
175 x 10
205 x 5
220 x 3
220 x 3
235 x 3
Benching:
145 x 3
185 x 3
225 x 3
245 x 3
265 x 1
The 265 went up easy, but on the rep down, my right shoulder had a funny feeling that I haven't felt in a while, so I played it safe and stopped there. I was running out of time anyhow, but still happy with the results. 1RM PR is only 295, so 265 is good for now.
Got some goodies today. My GymNTonic pheromones showed up today, going to have fun with those. Also got the Liquid Dubstep bottle, can't wait to try it out tomorrow.
Also scored a near-full tub of Craze. My gym sells pre-wo shots for $2 each. They have a stack of different ones, and I've been getting the Craze for the last 2 weeks. Came in today and the girl at the desk said that I should just buy the whole tub. The manager was there and said $15. I couldn't get my wallet out fast enough. It was at least 2/3 of the way full.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!
Score on the craze!!!! Obviously they had no idea. Lol.
Man that's crazy weight on lat pull downs.
What's your rationale of doing lat pull down on chest day?
My 'chest' days are really chest/back, so lats get hit as part of the back muscles.
Its just always been that way for me.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!
Something like that. I just like to work complementing muscles when I can. Upper body gets pumped up really well when I do them together, so it really helps out.
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LOL, I want to find a PF near by just to go in and fuck with everyone and the staff.
Pulldowns were just doing really well today, felt it in every rep.
If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!