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I mentioned previously, I am beginning to increase the intensity of my
workouts. I guess the warmer weather and the approaching summer has
provided me with more energy. My workouts themselves are divided into three segments each comprising a large muscle group. Tuesdays it's back day, Thursdays it's chest day and during one of the days on the weekend, I focus on shoulders. I was at the gym on Sunday March 30th. That day, I had a lot of energy so I knew I was going to have an excellent workout. I consider my shoulder workout to be the last day of my weekly workout cycle and the shortest. I always begin my workouts with 10 to 15 minutes on my abs trying to hit the various stomach muscles from various angles. It's also my warm-up. Next I move to shoulders. I do a 12 rep set with low weights as a warm-up. I began on the Hammer Strength machine doing a wide-grip shoulder press. Next I did the Upright Cable Rows. I like this one because it provides constant resistance on the positive and negative and it is one of my favorite shoulder exercises. Today, I did the most weight that I have done since last spring. Other shoulder exercises that I did were Dumbbell Side Lateral, Shrugs and Close-Grip Shoulder Press on the Nautilus machine. After shoulders, I did a set of 5 leg extensions, a superset of 1 tricep press exercise and 1 barbell bicep curl exercise. I was able to accomplish this at a good pace in about 1 hour and 35 minutes. Posted on: Wednesday April 2, 2008 |
