Thursday, January 29, 2009

Kettlebell session 1/28

A1. 50 swings
A2. 6 single arm clean and press
A3. 6 snatch
A4. Standing Cable press 65x 12
A5. Standing Cable Row 130x 12

All exercises completed with 24kg bell

Perform each exercise, rest for 90 seconds then repeat 4 more times...

Cheers

Kettlebell session 1/27

For todays workout I was reall pressed for time with all my clients so I had to put together an effective workout with only having about 20 minutes to do so. With little time I look for a movement that can activate as many muscle groups as possible in as simple a movement. In comes the kettlebell swing.

Goal 250 swings
Time = 20 minutes

Swings completed = 250 (goal achieved)
Time to completion = 14 minutes

Workout 1/26

A. Front Squat 235x 5,5,4,3,3,3,4 total = 27 (Alittle frustrating with these because of nagging lower back strain but strength is increasing.)

B1. Flat Bench 275x 5,5,5,5,8 total = 28

B2. Close grip Pulldown 200 x 6,6,6,6,7 total = 31

C1. Alternating dumbell curl 50x 8, 12

C2. Over head rope extension 100x 12, 12

Overall extremely satisfying workout today strength had been lagging last week but feels as if it is back to normal.

Till next time, stay anabolic

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Kettlebell session

Todays workout had a simple plan, to get my heart rate up and keep it elevated and to finish 200 swings as soon as possible...

25 swings
10 diamond Push ups
5 chins
1 min jump rope
1 minute rest

Repeat circuit 8 times

Short quick and to the point...

Cheers

Apologies, scorpion bowls and stolen rims

To all of my faithfuls out there I would like to send my most sincere apology about leaving you all hanging this week. I know that it is not a good excuse to forget my duties here but with all do respect on MLK day I had a hot water pipe burst in my bedroom to completely destroy a carpet, so frantically I started a fire, because that room has a wood stove not that I lit my house on fire, in a bastard effort to dry the carpet. It was berber by the way. With a pissed off land lord and roommate I retired for the night only to wake the next morning to find my car up on jacks and all four wheels missing, but I am not one to look at the bad things in life so I was pleased to see that the thieves left the tire iron that they had used to commondere my rims along with the two ton jacks I am sure cost a pretty penny, most likely stolen as well. By thursday night I had new rims and tires, ones that looked better than the ones I had to begin with, a celebration was in order so I met a few friends for a pint at the "U". Friday night the celebretion had to continue and the flashy rims need be flaunted across Providence, hopefully the thieves saw them kinda like a big FUCK YOU. Take my rims bitch I will just get nicer ones, ones with locking lugs this time that would be an absolute pain in the arse to purcure. With my brothers at hand and a friend in my pocket we set out for some evening apparitiff at a sushi bar. The place was packed except for one lonely seat beside two very attractive an very lonely J&W seniors, I just couldnt let them sit alone so with my crew at hand and with the help of a few servers made room for all to sit. The rest of the night is a blur for the most part but I am back and more posts are in the near future.....

Friday, January 16, 2009

Kettlebell session

All sets and exercises performed with a 24kg kettlebell

"Perform exercises in a circuit with minimal rest between each exercise and around 2 minutes between each circuit"

Double kettlebell clean and press 6 reps
Renegade Rows 6reps
Turkish get ups 3 each side
Single arm Front squat 8 each side
Single arm swing 15 each arm

Completed 2 more times

Total time = 25 minutes

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Workouts

The objective of every total body workout is to perform and upper body push followed by an upper body pull. This series can be perform seperate or circuit fashion i.e. super set. After the upper body we move to a lower body push or pull. Some examples for upper pushes include but are not limited to bench press, incline bench, dips, military press. Pulls for upper body are rowing variations, chin/pull ups, pull downs. Lower pulls, deadlift variations, power cleans, power snatches. Pushes include squats and all of their variations. Every workout is about how much time you have, always get the upper push/pull and lower push or pull finished, then if there is time follow up with some isolation work. Last but not least workouts cannot excede a 1 hour time limit, once the 60 minute mark is reached drop the weight. As far as sets and reps are conserned I do not count sets, I only count reps. For the meat of my workout the rep scheme is 25 total for each exercise, as many sets as needed.

Workout:
Foam roller and tennis ball soft tissue work
Dynamic warm up

(Perform one set of A1 followed by one set of A2 until all repititions are completed. Then move onto B and so forth)

A1. Flat bench:
275 x 5,4,3,3,3,3,6 for a total of 27
A2.Pull ups
body weight + 10lbs x 5,4,4,4,3,3,3 for a total of 26
B1. Snatch grip Deads
275 x 4,4,6,6,5 total of 25 (grip was really weak after the pull ups limiting the weight i could use today)
B2. Lying Leg Curl
100lbs x 6,6,6,7
C1. Incline Curl
40lbs x 11, 10, 9
C2. Over Head Rope Extension
80lbs 11,10,9

Total time = 43 min
Stretching