Drivn2perfection’s BodyBlog

Did 3 different main exercises today for hammies and quads, all consisting of 4 drop sets.

The 4 were…

Narrow Leg Press  | |  Leg Curl Machine  | |  1 Leg Squats (under guided BB) 

All 3 exercises started at a weight I could do about 12 times.  I went to failure and immediately took off a certain amount of weight and went to failure again with no break.  Did this a total of four times on each exercise. 

*I did calves after all of this, also working in a 4-teir drop set on the standing calf raise for a real burn and pump   Afterwards, I did a cooldown set on the Leg Extension machine and also on the standing leg curl machine.

I am going to my grandmother’s funeral  wednesday so I will be out of town for 2 days with no lifting ;(  Look forward to hearing from you all on thursday!

Today was the first day of the second week on my current high rep/ no breaks routine.  My Grandmother passed away this morning and figured it’d only be right to dedicate this week’s workouts for her, bless her heart.  She was a great woman that raised 7 fine young children (including my father ) and deserves recognition. 

I did arms and abs today and since I really am not trying to progress in numbers, just get a good hard workout in; I didn’t keep track of weight or anything.  The workout went really well, though, and I’m sure G’ma would be proud

Today I did a very good shoulder workout… I don’t have time to post up what I did, but it was good…   I was going to post some update pictures, but without proper lighting / me being horribly white / camera being gay,  I decided to wait until I get some more tan and find a better lighting spot to take pictures.  They’ll be up within the month hopefully.

Today was my first day doing back on the new routine… I decided to throw in some calf work since it has been a few days since I did legs.  It was the same scheme as with my other body parts… I started with semi-heavy weight I could do 10-12 times, and then I dropped the weight down some, did another set without break, and so on and so forth.. Did this for about 4 drop sets per exercise.

I did these exercises with drop sets…

Chest-Supported Rows  | |  Narrow-Grip Pullups  | |  Straight-Legged Deadlifts  | |  Narrow-Grip Cable Pulldowns  | |  1-Arm DB Rows

The workout felt amazing and I had a great pump going on And I’m becoming sore after each workout, so something must be going well!

Beautiful day out finally, for once.  And I just spent part of it in the gym doing my chest / ab workout.  As with the rest of this week, I did high rep, no rest drop sets on every exercise for a nice big pump and to reduce time in the gym for the week.  

I started off with a drop set of Flat DB Bench Press with 70lb DB’s and did roughly 20 repetitions of that weight with perfect form.  I took 10 seconds of break and went down to 60’s til failure.  Then 10 more seconds.. 50’s / 35’s / 25’s.  I did as many as I could until my form was compromised.

Second was EXACT same as flat bench except I did Incline DB Press.  started with 60’s in each hand and went down from there.

Third was Decline DB Press, respectively.  I started with 65’s and went down from there to 20’s. 

Lastly, I did upper flies / lower flies  with cables on each side.  Did the same principle as the above exercises.

* I then proceeded to do some abdominal work and worked my rotator cuffs.   Since, for those of you who follow, know that I have a problem with weak right rotators.  Which is hindering my chest progress. 

I closed out the workout with machine flies and did a lot of reps for a full complete burnout   Tomorrow is Back!

Idk if it’s the new, high endurance, no break routine that is tiring me out so fast, or if it’s the 5 days off of lifting and my muscles not used to getting rocked thats the issue.  Either way, I did an hour of legs and I was spent.

All I did was 5 drop sets on 4 different exercises… By the time I got to calves, I was spent and had no energy.  I did manage to do 6 or so calf sets, but for my calves that’s not nearly enough.

I did…

Leg Press (narrow) with 6 plates on each side until failure (15 reps of slow full contracted motion) and then stripped a plate off of each side until I was down to one plate.

Leg Curl machine with starting like 230lbs and kept going down 30lbs without a break until I got to 70lbs and it was too easy.

Leg Extension machine with 190 starting.  went down by 30lbs per set with no rest between until I got to 30lbs.

Lastly, did 2 sets of walking lunges with 40’s in each hand.  I could have pushed harder on these, but I was just exhausted by the time I got to these.  I did roughly 15 reps per leg per set.

Today was my first day back after coming down with the flu tuesday.  I decided that for the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be doing high endurance, high rep training, with low weight.  I did arms today, and I can say that it was one of the most exhilerating workouts I’ve done in a while! 

I basically did 3 different exercises for each body part ( tris and bis ) and did drop sets for every exercise.  Did about 5-6 drop sets per exercise.  Numbers arent really important here.  THE IMPORTANT thing is that I had no strength left by the end of my workout and 20lb DB’s felt heavy to me.  And this is only after an hour of lifting.

I also did some abdominal work in there to spice it up

Tomorrow will be legs I believe.  I’m pumped!

Brian

Just so everyone knows… I did do my shoulder workout yesterday… I would write it up in here, but at 6 am this morning, I got suddenly ill and started puking/have diarhea… I have been sick all day and JUST NOW got my first liquids other than water in… With all the puking ( 15 times ), my body is going to take a few days to recover.  I can barely hold myself up at the moment… I’m lucky I made it to the computer.. I will be back asap though… THanks for reading up.

Just an update for the day… I was supposed to do shoulders, but after working 14 out of the last 30 hours I’ve been through, I feel sluggish and weak beccause I only got to eat once in an 8 hour period , and once in a 6 hour period.. It tends to wear my body down when I can’t constantly feed it. 

I will be doing shoulders tomorrow after classes in the morning…stay tuned

Today was my first day of legs on the new routine… I didn’t push it all out because I had limited time, but for the first time doing this workout, I felt AMAZING!  Here are the numbers!

Like every workout, I did everything with slow controlled reps and never stopped after any rep.  Kept continuous tension on the muscles throughout.

Warm up= Leg Extensions= 150lbs for 2 sets of 24 reps ( 12 narrow and 12 wide )

Working Sets=

Leg Press= 770lbs x 2 sets x 10/10 reps (with feet together, working on outer quad sweep!)  Was surprisingly easy!

Guided 1 Leg Squats/Lunge= 145lbs x 2 sets x 10reps per leg on each set.  Very slow. Very good burn.

Walking Lunges= 50 per arm x 2 sets x 12/11 reps ( wasn’t too bad, going up next week )

Leg Curl Machine= 230?? (forgot to write down weight) x 2 sets x 10 reps

~~ Also did various standing and sitting calf exercises… I didnt have enough time to do everything I wanted, but got a good burn in them and what not.

**Overall, I had a VERY good burn and pump in my legs throughout the entire workout!  Can’t wait to see how this workout progresses over the next couple of weeks