Time To Double Up
The past three weeks I’ve been increasing my intensity and taking a lot more sets to failure. I’m also lifting a bit heavier and lowering the reps on a few exercises. Right now I’m training four days a week and quite frankly, this isn’t cutting it for me. After brainstorming ideas of what to change, reviewing my past workout programs, reviewing what worked and didn’t work, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to split my workouts into morning and evening sessions. My problem now is that in order to sufficiently work all the muscles I want to, I’m limited by my morning schedule’s time constrait. I don’t care how many people or published articles say "Keep your workouts to less than 60 minutes". Flat out, that does not work for me at all. It never has. Additionally, when going heavier I’ll go well over an hour just factoring in sufficient recovery time between sets! As it stands right now I don’t have time to get in cardio (which I highly dislike, but know I need to start incorporating), nor do I have time to do as many warm up sets as I’d like before sets that I go heavier on. So with that, I’m assembling a new program based on rep ranges I’ve seen the best results with for each body part, a past off-season workout routine of Markus Ruhl’s, and the basic principles covered in Nutrex’s "S.A.I.S." training program. I’m going to be going back to lifting five days a week, each muscle group being worked once a week. This will allow me to spread out my training and really focus on those muscles for that time. It’s going to be hard and yeah, I’m going to be sore for a little while. To me though, it’s all worth it and I realy believe this is going to be the only way that I can truly get the results that I want and demand from myself.
