Gotta Lift Big To Get Big

This week we have started a new workout called power bodybuilding! We found this on Bodybuilding.com. It is a beast of a workout that consists of high weight, low reps with high sets. Instead of doing a couple of sets with moderately high weight you go 5 sets of 5 reps at the highest weight you can get all the reps out. It is exactly what this blog is about lifting big to get big! So far I am loving this new workout. It is a beast and I can definitely tell I am going to see some good gains with this program.  Today we did the chest workout. On bench I did one set of 5 at 225 lbs then I jumped to 275 lbs and did 4 sets of 5 reps. After bench we go over to incline press and do 5 sets of 5. After incline press we moved over to incline dumbbell flies with 65 lbs for 3 sets of 10. By the end of this your chest is feeling it! We finished our workout with a set of hammer curls. What a great workout, I am hoping that if I keep at it I'll be up to ab 400 lb bench press by June of next year...

This Tuesday was different than most. This Tuesday I had some crazy amount of motivation to go harder than before. This Tuesday I didn't want to leave the gym feeling like I had an ok workout. This Tuesday I wanted to leave the gym feeling like I just killed it, I wanted everyone in that gym to know I wasn't there to play around. This Tuesday I could lift the world. This Tuesday I was an animal, better yet a beast! This Tuesday is going to be the last this Tuesday, from now on it is going to be everyday. Every morning I go to that gym I am going to go in there like a beast. I am going to tear that gym apart. I am going to show every single person that walks into that gym that I am not there to mess around. I am going to leave that gym feeling like I gave it my all. This is my promise to myself. I will keep it.

So every gym you go to there are those guys that you give nicknames, like there's always a roider, or there's always those girls that come to get checked out and don't really work out, they just strut around trying to get guys to look at them. Well my gym is no exception we've got both of those and more so I thought I would tell everyone about the guys we see every morning and the nicknames me and my dad gave them. So we'll start of with the quarter bench boys, every gym has some form of these guys. They put on a good amount of weight on the bench and only bring the weight down a quarter of the way and go back up hence the name quarter bench. We've got three guys like that at our gym, the funny part about it is they think they are so strong. Next we've got smelly, once again his name gives it up, this dude stinks of BO! It could be Monday morning and this guy still smells like he hasn't bathed in 5 days and hasn't changed or washed his clothes. This ...

Do you ever have those days at the gym where you just get in the zone and feel like you can lift anything you load? That's what I call beast mode! That's what I had today. I felt so good, I felt I could of put up 500 lbs on the bench. Haha ok maybe not that crazy but for our bench today we warmed up with a plate (135) for 10 reps, we jumped to 2 plates (225) for 5 reps, then to 255 for 5 reps, we were gonna finish on 275 lbs for 5 reps but like I was saying I was in beast mode today! So after my last set of 275 I decided to jump again and put on 315 lbs. I threw up 2 reps like it was only 225 lbs, I should have done more but called it quits after 2 reps. The rest of our workout was way good I was putting up high weights with ease on every lift we did. I was repping 225 on incline bench when we never had really gone that high before. All in all today was a great day at the gym! You gotta love these beast mode days, feeling like the hulk!