Thursday, October 15, 2015

New Weekly "Split"

I don't believe in splitting body parts.  When you do body-weight calisthenics you realize the best exercises are the ones that use as much of the whole body as possible. You do see nowadays more of a similar message in weightlifting than you used to (more people doing squats and dead-lifts and olympic lifts and favoring pull-ups over lat pull-downs) but I don't think it's quite the same thing.  I also believe that you work the whole body every day.  So for me, the split is in the types of exercises.  I have been experimenting with lots of things:  low reps, high reps, slow, strict form, etc.  There are a million different possibilities.  I don't want to miss anything but I can't do everything, so I have come up with a weekly "split" that allows incorporating all these possibilities.  I have also lately concentrated on rings.  Using rings makes the exercises much more difficult because you need to stabilize yourself.  But I don't have access to rings every day.  So I'm doing something like a high rep day (rows, push-ups, air squats, bench dips - reps always in the 25 - 50 range per set) and low rep days (concentrating on one side at a time, such as one arm rows, push-ups with one hand on a soccer ball, pistol squats, etc. reps 5-12 per set), and then ring days.  I cycle through this a couple of times a week.  So Monday might be a high rep day, Tuesday a low rep day, Wednesday a ring day, then repeat.

For added spice, I'm throwing in days with a "pyramid" approach so I can run the gamut from high to low reps on the same day.  This is fun because you get to build your routine using your imagination and it gets you away from the drudgery of "oh man, I have to get through 150 pullups today".  It's fresh.  Today's effort:

10/15/2015

Pulling:
Knees bent row (easiest):  40
"T-Bar" Rows:  52
Rows:  30
Pull-ups: 12
One arm row: 10
One arm T-Bar:  6
One arm curl: 8
Curl: 28

Pushing:
Incline push-up (upper body elevated, easiest):  50
Regular push-up:  52
Russian push-up:  40
Diamond push-up: 35
Dip: 20
One arm push up: 6
Triceps extension: 10
Triceps push:  30

Squats:
Regular air squat:  50
Strict form 1 second pause all the way down squat:  35
3 Second pause squat:  25
"One Leg Dead-lift":  15
Pistol squat: 8
Slow pistol:  5
Slow dead-lift:  4
Feet close deep squat:  25


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