I went back to Smith-machine squats with my feet slightly forward to hit both quads and hams with a midrange single move. Starting with 20 reps is rough–and then I added a bit too much weight, so my reps on the second and third sets were too low. Good change to gain nevertheless...
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Full-body today, including shoulders, arms and abs. To make it tolerable–no “re-tasting breakfast”–I did all isolation, or contracted-position, exercises, with a high-rep set to kick off the move… [Read more…]

First workout of 2017, so I went for all big midrange moves–high-rep set, add weight for a low-rep set, rest/pause for 10 seconds, then rep out one last time. I plan to stick with this 3-set approach, then in a week or so I will add a rest/pause set to each exercise for progression. My plan for a more massive man. Lol.
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A week between two holidays that include spiked eggnog had me training only twice this week. Today was full body with delts and arms–pre-exhaustion for most bodyparts…
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It’s the day after Christmas and all through the gym there were new creatures lifting and dropping dumbbells and slamming weights like complete assholes. Lol. People are off work today and decided to work out early–interfering with mine. No problem. I decided on a midrange move for each major muscle group–high-rep set, rest 30 seconds, add weight lower-rep set, rest 10 seconds, rep out one more time…  [Read more…]

I rolled Wednesday’s delts/arms/abs work into today’s workout, so I chose to do a contracted move, 2 sets, followed by a stretch set with Double-X Overload–that’s a partial rep in the stretch position after each full rep. Change and pain to gain

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I went back to a Pre-Ex attack–but with some rest/pause added to the iso move that was up first. One all-out set of midrange worked followed… [Read more…]

I added some extra rest/pause to every exercise–and went for stretch and contracted moves for most muscles, except shoulders, which I added a midrange, as you can see…
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A fairly empty gym is always motivating to me. I added a rest/pause to the second lower-rep set of the midrange move for each muscle…
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