Harry Grove’s BodyBlog

It has been a while since my last post.  I was just about to start an off season training routine back in October 2007.  Well the training has gone well as well as the eating and I was able to put on a good deal of size over the last 5-6 months.  I managed to keep my bodyfat the same throughout the process too.  Well around 5 weeks ago I started my contest prep for my show in August, a long prep period, 19 weeks in total.  I started around 17-18% BF and I have just had it measured and I am lying at 13.49%.  This great news for three reasons.

1). I am completely on track for the show.

2). I have done no cardio and I will continue to do no cardio.  Not a fan and I lost too much size before my last show.  Just going control my diet and continue to train heavy and stay between 1-12 reps.

3). I have only lost about 2lbs in weight.  Awesome stuff.

I have been working with my friend who is a strength and conditioning coach and we have devised a workout plan, which has been going great.  We believe that as a natural, the body can only take so much punishment in one session.  So we have gone from working one bodypart once a week, old prog was:

Mon: Chest and Bi’s; Tues: Legs; Thurs: Shoulders, Traps, Tri’s; Fri: Lats, Lower Back and Rear Delts

to working an upper/lower body split:

Mon: Max Effort-Upper; Tues: Rep Effort-Lower; Thurs: Rep Effort-Upper; Fri: Max Effort-Lower.

Doing it this way we have been able to stimulate (not annihilate) the muscles twice a week going through the whole rep ranges from 5-12 in week 1, 3-12 in week 2 and 1-12 in week 3 then start new cycle.  We believe that as a natural, the body can only take so much in one session.  So doing to much (annihilating) and then having a week rest before training the body part again would be counter productive. 

If you would like more information on the way I have been training, feel free to message me.  It has worked really really well and I am finding it hard to find reasons as to why I would go back to a routine of one bodypart a week. 

As usual, train hard and I will keep you posted on my progress  up to my comp. 

Harry

Having spent the summer traveling through Oz, Fiji,, Rarotonga and then LA and Las Vegas, my body has taken a fair amount of punishment of the wrong sort.  I have arrived back home in England and I am now getting back into the gym and training hard, punishing my body with the right sort of things.  I have been looking forward to getting back into the gym and it start properly as of 15th October 2007.  I have goals to compete in the fall of next year, so I have a while to get into shape. 

All the best to your training goals and continue to train hard.

hey there,

Well its been a long while since the last time I set foot in The Gym.  I have started working as a PT and nutritionist at the YMCA in Auckland, NZ.  Prior to that, i had been travelling around NZ for 4 months, no training and not much of a healthy lifestyle.  I went from being 182lb at 2.5% bodyfat on 10/11/2006 at my first comp and am now around 198lb and 15% bodyfat.  I have lost around 8lb of muscle and put on around 20lb of fat, not happy.  I did have a good time and was it was good to have some time off, but boy, am I glad to be back training. 

So I started around 3 weeks ago and feel good and my strength is slowly going back up and bodyfat is slowly coming back down.  There is a good crowd here at the Y and they make you train hard.  So where do I want to be in 4 months? (thats when I will be leaving NZ) I want to be 198lb but be 10% bodyfat.  I have got some work to do, but I think its possible.  I better get off here then and get my ass in the gym, so will speak soon.

Train hard always

Harry

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