northback’s BodyBlog

Last couple weeks, shoulders & lats have been feeling solid.

Started out tonight with some DB presses- sets of 65, 70, 75

Rear & Front Lat pulldown sets of 195 & 210

Arnold Presses (?) two sets with 55’s

Burnout on miltary with 145 to end the evening

Only a two more workouts, then off for a work conference and vacation!

Don’t have time to write it all up, but set many pr’s tonight.

Since I switched back to no-explode, I’ve seen a huge intensity jump in my workouts.  I was getting ready to cut, but sometimes you just sense a growth surge so I’m gonna stick with my lean bulk. 

Started out with both front & back shoulder bb presses.  Went up in weight on all sets - felt fantastic.  I know it’s overkill, but I wanted to check out how much my db shoulder presses improved afterwards- so I picked up some 65’s and banged out 10 easy reps.  Damn, I usually make about 7-8 fresh- and I’ve already crushed my shoulders doing bb.  So I upped the ante again- and knocked back two sets of 70’s.  If I would have skipped the bb today, I definitely could have repped the 75’s.

 Decided to superset some bicep work into the workout.  Felt good, but not quite like the shoulders today.  The pump felt great- endurance & strength are building.  Can’t wait to get back at it tomorrow.

Best chest workout I’ve had in a while.  Don’t have time to put all the numbers of here but for tracking purposes:

I’ve been rotating between BB & DB exercises - here’s today

1×8 205, 1×8 240, 1×6 255, 1×3 270, 1×7 240, 1×8 225

*The last two sets felt strong- weights felt lighter, should have forced out another rep or two

Moved up to BB Decline:

2×10 205, 1×8 215. 1×8 215

 Incline DB

3×8 with pause 80

Champagnes - these were tough today

3×7 45 with strict form, ouch!

DB Decline & Incline flyes - also worked with different pauses on machine flys

Yeah, great workout tonight.  You know it’s good when you feel like you wanna puke toward the end.

Haven’t been squating too much lately b/c my right shoulder gets a bit tweaked (stil healing) but getting back into it now.

Some of the sets tonight:

Squats:  10×225 10×245 8×275 5×295 10×245

Leg Press, feet outward, wide: 3×10 540, 1×8 570  1×21 270

Leg Curls: 2×8 160, 1×7 170

BB Lunges: 2×10 135, 1×8 155

Leg Ext. 3×10 210 w/pause

Calf Raises 3×15 320

and a few other sets/exercises.  Legs feel great, but I hope I can walk tomorrow