Holy crap!
My brother and I have been following HIT principles from Mike Mentzer’s books for our workouts for the last 2 months. As much as I like doing heavier weights, less reps, less sets, and less workouts, I just like working out so I was getting bored and I decided to do some lighter "burn" workouts in between our HIT sessions. I worked my shoulders, and arms 2 days ago. I tried a new excersise that I got out of Sylvester Stallone’s book "Sly Moves" and man did it work. It’s called Bent Over Runners. This is a shoulder excersise. This is where you take a pair of light dumbbells (I used 12 pounders) and stand slightly bent over with one leg ahead of the other like you’re in mid-step. In this position you swing the dumbbells up and back, like you’re jogging (but keeping your feet planted). BUT you do this in slow motion. It’s like jogging but in super slow-mo. I did 4 sets of 25 reps and holy crap are my shoulders sore. My shoulders honestly haven’t been sore in probably 2-3 months. Not like this. It works your entire shoulder capsule from front to back and also your traps and arms. It’s a wicked excersise. Just thought I’d pass on the info. Sly’s book is pretty sweet too. I highly recommend it.
August 13, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Do you like Mike’s program? I have been toying with buying it. It tough for an "older guy" like me to put on mass … willing to give damn near anything a try. Best Rob
August 13, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Thanks! I’m going to try those on shoulder day! And btw, wicked tatoo!