Thursday, March 26, 2009

Today's workout was a good one

It was a push-focused upper body day: three push exercises supersetted with three pull exercises, 4 sets of 8 on all exercises, with the twist being that instead of resting between supersets I did 20 reps of a bodyweight exercise. So the first superset went like this:

Bench press: 1x8x75
DB pullover on SB: 1x8x35
20 squats
Bench press: 1x8x75
DB pullover on SB: 1x8x35
20 pushups (this sucked!)
Bench press: 1x8x65 (I'm a pussy, but after the 20 pushups 75 lbs was not happening!)
DB pullover on SB: 1x8x35
20 alt leg forward lunges
Bench press: 1x8x65
DB pullover on SB: 1x8x35
20 mountain climbers

The second superset was DB press on the ball supersetted with side plank rear delt raises. I used 25's for the DB press and a 5 pounder for the rear delt raises. The bodyweight exercises between each set were as above, and the pushups sucked even more this time around.

The third superset was one armed shoulder press and renegade rows. I started with 20 lbs for the shoulder press but pretty much knew right away that that was too much and went down to 15 for the last 3 sets. I used 12's for the renegade rows. And again the pushups sucked.

Next time I this particular set/rep scheme comes up in my rotation it's on a day that's squat-focused. I have so much muscular endurance in my legs that I suspect it won't be too horrible, but I've certainly been known to be wrong.