I decided that my goal of 190# and 6-8% bf means that I need to gain a few lbs of lean mass, so I started doing some hypertrophy/strength work a la Mike Mentzer style since I had such great success with it in the past. Although this first workout was more guess work then anything else because I don't know what weight I should be using, so I just guessed at something I thought was close and went for it.
Leg Ext. 1x 17 @ 110#
Leg Press 1x 26 @ 250#
Seated Calf Raise 1x 20 @ 90#
Sit up - 1x 60 @ 25#
The goal with Heavy Duty style hypertrophy work is 1 set to absolute failure, eccentric, concentric and isometric. That is tough to do and according to Dorian Yates (my favorite bodybuilder of all time) said that it took him 9 years how to figure out how to mentally go to total failure on 1 set. It's not easy to do.
So with this new revelation in mind, I think that I'm going to do 2-3 sets on these and lower the goal rep count a little. Dorian style.
Then:
2x10 30/30 swimming.
So I did 10x 50yrd on the 60"
rest 5 min. between rounds
Next workout should be something more like:
Leg Ext. 3x 8
Leg press 3x8
Standing Calf 2x 8
Hang leg raise 3x20
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