Off weak, I mean…week!
I decided to take this week off. I’ve just ended a long cut, while doing high volume workouts in the gym. I feel like I need to give my body a break, and this week seemed like a good idea considering I’m taking a 4 day weekend vacation to see friends and family in oregon.
Problem is, I just can’t keep out of the gym. I decided to do three full body workouts, light this week just to keep the body going a bit rather than sit around. I also am walking like usual, 3-5 miles a day if I can. My first workout was yesterday. I had read of a workout consisting of body weight exercises and thought I’d give it a try. If I remember right it was pullups, dips, squats (with BW on shoulders) and crunches. You start at doing a set of 10 through all the exercises and then rest 2 min. Then do sets of 9, then 8 and all the way down to 1. Then if you’re still up to it you go back up to 10.
Well, it seemed a bit easy to me. By the time I got back around to an exercise I was ready to go and didn’t need any rest at all. I stopped taking the 2 min rest and just went back to chin-ups. Then once I got down to low reps I got tired of reracking my weight on squat so I started doing 2 rounds at once. For instance if I was going to do sets of 5 I would do 5 chin-ups. 5 dips, 5 squats then turn around and do 4 squats, 4 dips, 4 chins, then 3 chins, 3 dips, 3 squats. etc. OH yeah, I forgot to do crunches…oh well. So I did all this and made my way all the way back up to 10.
In all my workout consisted of 109 chin-ups, 109 dips and 109 squats of 185lbs. I then hit the bench for a burnout set and hit the shower. Workout didn’t seem to tax me that much but this is some respectable volume!
I think tommorow I will do the same but add in push-ups and crunches. I just hope to keep moving back and forth quick enough to get my heart rate up. I might just start at 10, go to 5 then back up to 10 too. That would only be 85 total reps. Not as bad…
Deloading….hmm.
Post by: TPower81