Any thoughts on this workout?
I met a guy in the Gym the other day, who was big and very strong.
He has an interesting training method where by he goes the gym every day, working his upperbody one day and his lower body the next. He told me he used to work out with an ex-navy seal who showed him this training method, and it was the way he got so big and strong.
Taking the opportunity, I decided to train with him and follow his upper body routine, which was as follows:
After a good warmup we did the following
flat bench barbel
incline bench barbel
decline bench barbel
for each set the the weight would increase substantially until we could just do one set for the final set.
The first set would have 7 reps, the next 5, and so on 3,1
So for me for example, my weights were 145lbs, 165lbs, 190lbs, 225lbs.
He said if I stuck with this method I would be able to increase my weights substantially over a few months.
Next we did about 9 sets of pec flys using a machine and varying the angle so to hit different parts of the pecs. However, this time we kept the reps to about 8-6
He mentioned something about push/pull training and so having just been pushing we moved to back where the movment was pulling:
next we did some lat pullups using our own bodyweight, and attaching weights to a weights belt.
Next seated rowing. Again heavy as described above.
Next shoulder press using the smith machine to do military press.
we did about 4 sets. and that was it for shoulders, he did say normally he does two shoulder exercises and two back excercises.
Next we did barbell curl but did about 8-5 reps for 4 reps and then between 8-6 reps for tricep press, notice that each excercise is the opposite of the last one.
All the weights were much heavier than I would normally do, as I aim for 8-10 reps. So anyone understand the thinking behind his workout, as he normally works out at 6 am and so I havent had the chance to talk to him further?
Thanks,
I met a guy in the Gym the other day, who was big and very strong.
He has an interesting training method where by he goes the gym every day, working his upperbody one day and his lower body the next. He told me he used to work out with an ex-navy seal who showed him this training method, and it was the way he got so big and strong.
Taking the opportunity, I decided to train with him and follow his upper body routine, which was as follows:
After a good warmup we did the following
flat bench barbel
incline bench barbel
decline bench barbel
for each set the the weight would increase substantially until we could just do one set for the final set.
The first set would have 7 reps, the next 5, and so on 3,1
So for me for example, my weights were 145lbs, 165lbs, 190lbs, 225lbs.
He said if I stuck with this method I would be able to increase my weights substantially over a few months.
Next we did about 9 sets of pec flys using a machine and varying the angle so to hit different parts of the pecs. However, this time we kept the reps to about 8-6
He mentioned something about push/pull training and so having just been pushing we moved to back where the movment was pulling:
next we did some lat pullups using our own bodyweight, and attaching weights to a weights belt.
Next seated rowing. Again heavy as described above.
Next shoulder press using the smith machine to do military press.
we did about 4 sets. and that was it for shoulders, he did say normally he does two shoulder exercises and two back excercises.
Next we did barbell curl but did about 8-5 reps for 4 reps and then between 8-6 reps for tricep press, notice that each excercise is the opposite of the last one.
All the weights were much heavier than I would normally do, as I aim for 8-10 reps. So anyone understand the thinking behind his workout, as he normally works out at 6 am and so I havent had the chance to talk to him further?
Thanks,
