American Gladiator
Tried out for American Gladiator this weekend down at Gold’s Gym, Venice. Good times and my buddy Josh and I will in all likelihood get a call back. We kicked some ass in all of the drills and the interviews. Really good stuff. I am having to shift my training somewhat though. Normally I’m not a fan of cardio because I tend to burn a bunch of muscle when I’m doing it, damned fast metabolism, but I have to do it now so that I’ll be in good enough shape to win as a competitor or smear people as a gladiator. There is a possibility to be either one. So I’m still following the diet I made up for my bodybuilding show in March (which I still plan to do), but I’m upping the calories considerably to compensate for the excess cardio.
I’m training twice per day now four days per week, a cardio/muscular endurance type session in the morning and my normal lifting in the evening. This is what my morning session pretty much looks like:
This is all pretty much as giant set
2 minutes jump rope
20 pullups
1.5 minutes jump rope
15 pullups
1 minute jump rope
15 pullups
20 decline crunches
20×65 dumbbell cleans
20 hyper extensions
4 minutes @ 6mph up 8% grade running
1 minute jump rope
15 pullups
1 set standing calves with stack
2 minutes stair stepper level 12 (about 30 floors)
1 set standing calves witht the stack
Tonight’s Chest Calves and Biceps workout:
Seated Calves
155×20
190×20
240×15/-45×10/-35×10/-45×10
Dumbbell Incline Press
100×18
100×17
100×14
90×23
Cable Crossover
100×10
2 @ 120×10
Cable Curls
90×10
120×10
Flat Flyes/ Palms Up Front Raise
2 @ 65×10/35×8
Seated Dumbbell Curl
70×6
Reverse Barbell Curl/Hammer Curl Superdropset
80×10/80×6/55×6
Machine Preacher Curl
80 to failure
Standing Calves
Stack x 20
stack+135×20
stack+ 355×20
stack+ 355×16
And that’s the day. Good training to all.
