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Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
It’s already Friday, Halloween, but the only thing spooky about our workout was our first heavy set of standing dumbbell presses. We added weight, and getting the DBs into position and then ramming them overhead was frightening. The rest of the workout was less scary, other than the freaky vascularity we’re still displaying (see new vasodilator in diet info below)…
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM X-REP.COM AND THE A-MAN…
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Another day of heavy low-rep sets followed by a couple of high-rep burners. It’s been effective for every bodypart, but it’s especially painful for quads and hams. Pushing for 20 hard reps on leg extensions is excruciating, but what a deep ache and pump…
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
We decided to do another Power week, as these lower-rep workouts take less energy. That’s important this week because we are training four days in a row, Tuesday through Friday; an out-of-town trip forced us to use yesterday as an off day. With our new high-rep ending sets, Power workouts are quickly becoming our favorites in the Power/Rep Range/Shock protocol…
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
We were really looking forward to today’s workout. Not only was it a delts-and-arms day, but it was Power, heavy weights and low reps–and now we end each bodypart with two high-rep sets (15-20 reps). Deep-fiber-activation ache plus an incredible pump in shoulders and arms. Can’t ask for a better workout than that…
Delts: Standing DB presses (7, 5); DB upright rows (8); Incline one-arm laterals (9, 7); Forward-lean laterals (20, 17); Bent-over laterals (7, 20)
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Today’s workout was a bit slow because we were moving out of the rep range on most exercises; in other words, we are getting strong very fast and we’re having to write down new weights in our training log. Nice! The ending high-rep sets are feeling great too, and keeping our vascularity intact…
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
This Power week will be a bit different than our last one a few weeks ago. When we used P/RR/S more than a year ago, we noticed that Power week was lacking something, especially for Steve who doesn’t respond to low reps. The missing element was ending a bodypart with a high-rep set or two for a big pump. Eric Broser, the creator of P/RR/S, eventually came out with FD/FS training, which is kind of the same thing. You get fiber damage (FD) on the first exercises by using heavy weights and low reps and sometimes slow negatives (negative-accentuated sets); then, on the last few sets for a bodypart you go for fiber saturation (FS). That requires high reps–15, 20 or more. We used that concept today, and it felt incredible…
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Our favorite workout of the week; plus, since it’s a Shock workout, we get to use supersets for a super pump. It worked–shoulders and arms blew up big time…
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
We’re actually seeing more vascularity in our lats than when we were peaking. Wild! So far this Power/Rep Range/Shock is the perfect program for an anabolic rebound after a long and winding diet. X-cellent workout today, many postactivation supersets, and bringing back the X…
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
We were excited to get back to supersets again, after two weeks of straight sets. It’s Shock week, so that means blasting the target with postactivation–compound move followed immediately by an isolation exercise–and we began using X Reps again. Killer pump and ache…
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
Before we get to the workout, we have an X-alert reminder: It’s the last day you can get the X-Rep Update #1 e-book at a reduced price, plus the free X-Rep Mass-Training Method e-book. After today the Update moves to the X-Shop to its regular price (without the freebie)…
 
Today’s workout was great for Steve, not so great for Jonathan because of lower-back issues. He went light on all exercises, but due to the rep-range variation he still managed a good pump. He didn’t get the deep ache along with it that Steve got, however. Pushing three different rep ranges to exhaustion has that distinct feel of overall multi-fiber-type growth stimulation… (Go to our X Blog for the full details of today’s blog.)
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