The problem with grip and heavy shrugs plus other assorted irritations :)
Woke up early today, which is good. Its always better when i wake up before the alarm goes off because i always feel more alert when i have to do a cardio session. Did 30 mintues, interval training on the stationary bike, and i must admit i was a little slack! The first 15 i was just crusing along, but picked up the pace for the second half. Managed to burn 450 calories, not a bad effort
Today was delts/traps day in the gym, my favorite day! As always, i like to train as heavy as i am physically able.
The problem today was though, well, i’m going so superheavy in my shrugs that i am stuggling to hold a grip! This poses a problem because my grip is giving out before i rep out…………..annoying! To give you an illustration how heavy i am shrugging, this is what i did today: I use the shrug machine: a free weight device that allows you to add plates and did 7 clean shrugs with 180kgs. 90kgs per hand. Now that may not seem massively impressive but remember, at the moment i am only 71kgs! I’ve always been super strong through the delts and traps.
So grip strength is certainly something i am going to have to improve as a matter of neccessity! I always train forearms hard anyways, but i will increase workload and add some more grip specific exercises.
The another annoying thing relates to yesterdays session. Now yesterday, i trained quads. Lately i have revised my whole gym routine and it has worked a treated to date, muscle groups are aching more so then they have done in years! The problem: i woke up this morning and ZERO quad soreness. Hell, i was expecting to be able to hardly stand! It was an intense session: bench and box squats (killers!), leg extensions supersetted with sissy squats, at the end of the session my legs felt like jelly! But no soreness today. I wont pull the pin just yet, i will measure them every week for a month and if after that there is no growth, time to change tactics again. I know my legs are a weak bodypart, but i have vowed to bring them up to scratch. Give me 12 months, I’ll be quadzilla! you’ll see! hahaha!
Well guys, gotta go, a boy has to eat!
The good doctor
