Tuesday, February 28, 2006

ME Back/Bench

Lunchtime:
LifeFitness Treadmill (Walking speed 3.8 MPH, Running Speed 7.0 MPH): 5 intervals of 3 minutes running/3 minutes walking. Went great, 4-minute runs next time.

Evening:
Snatch-Grip Deadlifts: 135x5, 155x5, 185x5, 205x5, 225x0. My first time with this movement. Yeah, it really worked my upper back hard enough that I couldn't hold a negative in the pullup longer than one second afterward. It's hard on my grip because of the width, I have to stay tighter to launch it from the bottom, and they're harder to lock out.

Pullups: 1 negative that I could only hold for a second.

Hammer Strength Iso Row: Worked up to 70x5 per arm, then a 90 lbs single. Had no place in this gym to do a pullup with the bands, so I did these.

Incline Bench Press: 85x5, 105x5, 125x5, 145x5x4 (feet up, 1-second pause), 145x5 (had no strength left to pop it from a pause, so these were done touch and go).

DB Preacher Curls: worked up to 20x10, then 25x6.

Incline laterals: 8x10, 10x10, 12x10, 15x7.

Superset:
Hammer Shrug Machine: 90x10, 110x10, 130x8, 150x6, 180x1
Pushups: Failure at 20, 12, 10, 8, 6 reps

3 comments:

Unknown said...

The snatch-grip deads are great. Once you get used to the width, a normal grip will feel easy.

lscrewy said...

Hey its lou
I thought this might be a good idea to save my workouts. I started posting today -3-3-06
Let me know what you do for your Tri workouts.
i'm doing overhead dumbells,close grip bench-boards ect....
http://lscrewy.blogspot.com/

Alberto said...

Jon:
I do it for both reasons. I want a thicker upper back but I also wanted to do a deadlift I have never done and build that up.