Paddy’s Blog

OK I’m tired of circuit training!! It was killing me! It was hard some days to psych myself up to go through the whole body heavy for 3 sets!!  So … I started working out bodyparts again! And I feel like an animal in my workouts! Wow, to only work arms or chest … Last night I did shoulders and I thought they were going to explode!!

Monday Chest/Back Cable Pushdowns and decline Bench Presses supersetted 5 sets

Tuesday Arms Curls and Reverse Curls supersetted 5 sets, tricep pushdowns and dumbell kickbacks supersetted 5 sets

Thursday Shoulders/Back Dips and Shoulder Raises 5 sets supersetted Behind the Neck dumbell presses 5 sets

Friday (tanight!) Legs Deadlifts and Calf Raises supersetted 5 sets Then 5 sets of what I call King Kong Calf Raises: I freaking put dumbells, anything, on my universal to get the weight up as high as possible and I use power hooks to hold the bar! Then I do them fast and i feel like my calves are going to explode! I gotta get a calve machine. www.newyorkbarbells.com has one for $469 shipped free. Maybe I’ll win the lottery!

All excercises I do heavy weight. Whenever it feels too heavy and I realize my form isn’t good, cause let’s say my energy is down, I simply kick the weight down a bit. I love also doing drop sets where I’ll immediately drop the weight down and get more reps out. But I also love what I call Hercules Sets where I pick up weight I can only do 1 or 2 reps right after I did a set for say 6 or 7 reps with really heavy weight! Hercules!!!!

Diet remains the same. Always clean. I don’t cheat … period … anymore. And for those of you who do have cheat meals that’s great (and fun!) but for me I just don’t need them. I’m a freak in that a cheat meal for me will be a tablespoon of peanut butter when I wasn’t supposed to have it, or eating some black olives!

But my diet is so down pat now, I can do carb depletes for 3 days on end, cut up, and have no side effects whatsoever as far as energy or dizziness or carb craving! But then again I’m the nut who loves cardio!

I miss BioBex!!!!!

Ciao all

paddy

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If tomorrow all the things were gone,
I’d worked for all my life.
And I had to start again,
with just my children and my wife.

I’d thank my lucky stars,
to be livin here today.
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom,
and they can’t take that away.

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

From the lakes of Minnesota,
to the hills of Tennessee.
Across the plains of Texas,
From sea to shining sea.

From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Well there’s pride in every American heart,
and its time we stand and say.

That I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

And I’m proud to be and American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.

And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.

Paddy