Training these days has its moments where sometimes it can be a pain in the ass but other times, everything is just right and feeling like a Super Saiyan. My Dopa training has it's fair share of ups and downs of doing everyday since Jan. 1st but I'm keeping at it and have hit roughly 35,000 total reps with it doing 500-1000 a day and done a few HIIT workouts where you do as many reps as possible, so it can be brutal some days. Will I hit 50,000 by the end of the month or going into April? Who knows?
With the circuits, I would change up the type of muscles I want to work on or at least target. Not so much to isolate them cause with the band, it's never isolating, it builds stabilization and you have to be in control at all times otherwise it's not going to look very pretty LOL. Some days I'll do chest presses and rows for the chest and back but sometimes I'll hit the upper arms and do curls and pulls for the triceps. I switch up exercises doing squats by either doing my Uppercut To Squat combo, Resistance Squats where I hold the band at it's tightest, Butterfly Power Squat Combo or Hook around the arms and do squats that way. Core work is mainly doing the Propellers but I'll do another exercise that hits those particular muscles.
When it comes to the gym, it's cool going there and playing around doing mainly Pull-Ups, Dips, Bench, DB Curls, Sandbag Work and working with the rack. I'll do Farmer's Carries with 65 lb DBs in each hand and walk the length of the gym and do sets of that. This past week, on Thursday, I decided to try Rack Pulling for the first time in ages. Partials were always fascinating to me cause you can move much heavier weight while only moving less than foot, often merely inches. So on this day, I pulled 225 for 20, 315 for 10, 385 for 5, 405 for 3 and then on the final set, I wanted to go even further. I put another 25 lb on each side and got 2 reps. Remember, yeah I'm not pulling at full ROM but I put everything I had into this and the bar came off the rack with 455 lbs. That's the heaviest I've worked with a Barbell in more than a decade. Here is one of those reps....455 Rack Pull.
With the band, I've been testing out different exercises to film and see what they can do for others and since I've had some repeatable ones, I thought I'd add some new exercises to my playlist so people can get an idea of what's possible with this. filmed several exercises and put up about 5 yesterday that got a little bit of attention right away so I'm proud of that. These 5 alone can be used for circuits or regular sets and reps schemes to work on technique, control and strength. These aren't done fast like some of the others, these are deliberate, methodical and focused based. Each working the muscles as they need to be and because it's a heavier band, the stabilization is more laid out.
Each done with more of a closeup on how they're done. My intention was to show the muscles being worked as much as I could and utilize the techniques with great detail. It was fun doing these before my workout doing a circuit of Chest Presses, Oblique Twists, Resistance Squats, Front Raises & Wave Pulls. Typical 10 reps each and only rest was marking it off. I didn't focus on speed, more on control and technique along with building strength in those areas. 500 Total reps by the end, felt great.
Have an amazingly awesome day everyone. Keep at it and kill it out there. Train with passion, drive and heart. Don't be an ego maniac that thinks his way is the only thing that matters and if you don't go along you're a loser. Usually when I hear stuff like that it makes me think of THIS. Those people are not worth your time and effort and they're just bitter children trapped in an adult body or better yet, think they're intelligent when in reality they act like a 13 year old who didn't get past 5th grade, believe me I can say far worse things but you get my point. It happens sometimes. We can all learn how to be strong and kind like Goku, it's not always easy but it's better than acting like a person who's got that engine running but nobody behind the wheel.
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