The new routine is going well.
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
