Jettisoned Ponderings

I’m really liking this new workout and the higher reps are giving me a perfect opportunity to get my form back in line and hit all the fibers that have been neglected or just not being fully worked before; mostly legs. It seems to be working really well for GJ, too.

Since the low-carb didn’t respond as well for GJ as she’d like (though she did gain some good definition around her scapulae ^_^) the carbs are back in and fats taken down to a minimum. She started on cardio this morning (treadmill, walking, high incline. Moderate effort/heart rate as it actually burns more fat than going all out) and the extra carbs should help her push more in the gym as well as just plain function better. So… with that, now there’s more to go on and intensify the workouts a bit. She’ll be around 1100 calories a day, so nothing to significantly bulk up on, but she should have enough to gain a little bit of muscle (shoulders will be a focal point). Being on the Gaspari stack will help the process along, too. I have my own stack I’ll be running and I need a workout that’s seriously gonna hit the muscles hard. The benefit of being on a PH cycle is that you do recover so quickly. The diet will probably ramp up even higher for me when I get to that point. Brainstorming for a good mass workout I figured we’d need something that had some of what’s been tried and true with the 12 rep range, but also threw in some higher reps for conditioning and lower reps for size. Court needs to tone up her legs and I need to build mine. Now, when you think of pros with massive legs who comes to mind for you? Of course there’s Ronnie, but I can’t leg press 1200lbs or have a parking lot to go do walking lunges in. Dennis Wolf trains in the 4×10-12 for pretty much everything except calves, which is good but again our bodies are too accustomed to that. Maybe Phil Heath with his "Hi, I’m gonna do 60 reps on leg press this set just to see what happens"… While I like doing that, GJ does not! I’d totally throw Britt Miller’s workout at her if I knew what it was… In the back corner of my mind there was a name that still lingered there, so I looked into it and oooooh, I like how this looks! (In a very twisted way, heh!) The workout is that of a certain Texan who likes to train with chains… Can you guess whose workout it is?

Yep, good ‘ol Branch! Here’s His Workout, soon to be ours in a few weeks!

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