Thursday, December 21, 2017

Week 5 Day 4 What goes down must come up

Squats today went awesome because I managed to not blow the ass out of my shorts! It was one of those days heachache and feeling off, everybody gets them and you just want to skip the workout. Popped an advil and drank lots of water the remainder of the afternoon and decided on the drive home this was going down. It turned out to be a great workout.
Lots of warm up as usual before squatting. Front and side planks for 15 secs each 3 rounds. Side shuffle with a band around the mid thigh. Air squats with the band on.
The squat workout today was going up to my training max for a AMRAP set. Worked my way up in weight and for the AMRAP set it was 350 lbs on the bar for 5 reps. I was very pleased with this as it places my 1 rep max at around 400 lbs.
Taking the pressure off my lower back now so romanian deadlifts are off the menu. Instead I did glute ham raise but not on a traditional piece of equipment for it. Gotta work with what the gym has. I supersetted these with walking lunges holding dumbbells. This got the legs fired up so I ended with a couple of sets front squat on the smith machine. The nice thing about the smith machine for this exercise less stress on the lower back, you can hit the quads better with foot placement and you can push better weight because your upper body is not fatiguing from holding the bar in place.
And just to kill of the legs 4 mins of air dyne.
Progress gym rats!!

Day 4
Squat warm ups bar x 10 2 sets, 95 x 10, 135 x 10, 185 x 6, 225 x 5, 275 x 3
work sets 295 x 3, 315 x 3, 325 x 3, 350 x 5 AMRAP with training max 350 x 1 just cause
Glute ham raise 4 sets supersetted with walking lunges 4 sets
Front squat on smith machine 135 x 10, 185 x 10 3 sets
Air dyne 4 mins of lung puke



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