mikschu’s BodyBlog

So my recent pics have really done a lot to motivate me in the gym and while running.  They don’t look that great so I’ve been thinking about them while I lift or run, and I’ve been having some intense workouts as a result!  I had to take some for a fitness challenge with some bodyspace friends and now I’m happy I did.  So basically my word to the wise: take progress pics and post them, even if you feel self conscious about them…  Take the most revealing pics you can take and don’t try to hide your trouble areas; take extra pictures of parts you hate!  Posting them and knowing that anyone can look at them will motivate you to take care of it!  I’m on a soap box, I’ve only had like 2 or 3 workouts since I posted them.  But I know the difference has been from those pics.

I’ve recently implemented something new to my program.  Instead of doing as many pullups as i can do and then assisting myself to fill the set of desired reps, I loaded some weight around my waste and just did negatives.  I assisted myself up with my legs on a chair and just lowered myself as slowly as possible for every rep.  It felt amazing!  My lats haven’t been so sore in a long time.  My arms were feeling it too!  It definitely proves that the compound movements are going to increase arm size and definition (they already have) faster than concentration.  I’m going to apply the negative work to more movements in the next couple of months.  I’ll just do one movement in negative every work out or ever other one.  Not too often, but often enough to hit every body part with negative work at least once every 2 weeks.

My friend will be lifting with me more often soon and we decided to switch over to barbell bench and spot eachother to do some heavy negatives.  I’m really looking forward to this because I haven’t hit barbell bench in at least half a year.  I know I will see huge gains in my chest and triceps because it will be so different from dumbbells, plus we’ll be doing negatives so I’ll really be able to load up some heavy weight on that.  I’ll keep that up for a little while and then I think I’ll start alternating between dumbbells / barbell every 2 weeks or so.  I can’t decide if one is better than the other so I’ll just do both (yeah I know what I said a couple of blogs ago, but sh@t happens and people change their minds, ok? OK!)

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