Day 32: SHOCK Shoulders, Traps & Abs
**I’m excluding all warm up sets**
Giant Set I
Hammer Strength Isolateral Shoulder Press: 320lbs x 10, 320lbs x 10, 320lbs x 10, 320lbs x 10, 320lbs x 10
superset w/
Seated Lateral Dumbell Raises: 40lb’ers x 12, 40lb’ers x 12, 40lb’ers x 12, 40lb’ers x 12, 40lb’ers x 12
superset w/
Seated Anterior Dumbell Raises: 30lb’ers x 12, 30lb’ers x 12, 30lb’ers x 12, 30lb’ers x 12, 30lb’ers x 12
End
Giant Set II
Barbell Shrugs: 315lbs x 12, 315lbs x 12, 315lbs x 12, 315lbs x 12, 315lbs x 12
superset w/
Lying Posterior Cable Extensions: 30lbs (per side) x 10, 30lbs x 10, 30lbs x 10, 30lbs x 10, 30lbs x 10
superset w/
Rear Delt/Trap Dumbell Rows: 50lb’ers x 10, 50lb’ers x 10, 50lb’ers x 10, 50lb’ers x 10, 50lb’ers x 10
End
Crunches: 30, 30, 30
superset w/
V-Ups: 20, 20, 20
Precor Elliptical: 25 minutes
Thoughts
I’m not very vascular person with exception to my forearms even at a much lower bodyfat percentage. Obviously, the higher your percentage the more attenuated vascularity will be. However, during this workout the veins in my anterior deltoid were popping pretty hard.
After my first few sets my shoulders were already fully stimulated and the longer rep schemes have allowed for even greater stimulation of the given muscle group.
As I moved on to my traps my shoulders were fully engorged with blood and were a bit immobile as a result. I guess you can call that cool. This made the rowing and extension portion of the second giant set somewhat painful. This definately was an exercise in mind over matter.
If you have been following my logs at all you know that I have been trying to develop my lower traps. Looking in the mirror after this workout they were fully stimulated and even studying them the past few days I can say they are no longer a weakness. In case you were wondering what the “lower traps” are I’ll provide this diagram:
Discussion
As a note, I have just begun taking creatine again and the product I will be using is Controlled Labs Green Mag. This is a stellar product and even better, it’s extremely cost effective. Hopefully, I can get a review done of this down the road. I’m looking forward to the synergy of this product with Aplodan.
Throughout this discussion section I have been citing some research supporting some of the theories behind Aplodan’s efficacy. Since further discussion will be somewhat “heavy” into the mechanisms by which Aplodan works this animation provided by McGraw-Hill can you give a strong primer into the function of the neuromuscular junction and it’s role in skeletal muscle contraction. Just click on the picture for the animation to begin:
Deserusan’s Essential Cardio Selection
Paul Van Dyk Live @ Praha 5.25.2006
February 22, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Good work today. Is supersetting a staple in your routine? I use the ExRx site quite a bit myself. Very good material to stimulate the intellectual side of bodybuilding.