Day 43 was the start of week 6 in Lift 4, which meant chest and triceps and I did corrective shoulders from 645.
The shoulder routine helped me today and was not as hard as I thought it would be, mainly because my shoulder was not as sore from the COVID booster as I expected.
The chest and triceps workout was a circuit workout, so again two quad blocks in which you alternate four exercises (chest, triceps, chest, and triceps), for three sets, and then you do a burnout round in which you do three sets alternating 30 seconds of wide push-ups and 30 seconds of triceps push-ups. Finally, you do three sets of core, alternating between 30 seconds of side crunches and 30 seconds of weighted flutter kicks.
This was another rough workout. I was able to maintain the heavier weight for the first set in each block, but then I had to drop the amount of weight down for almost every exercise in the second and third sets in each block. This is a program that will definitely humble you when it comes to how much weight you can use because there is so little time between the exercises (basically none) and the sets (just 30 seconds, which is enough time to get yourself in position to do the first exercise again) that your muscles get very tired. This is not like P90x where you get at least 30 seconds between exercises and at least one minute between blocks, plus the amount of time that Tony chats. So, even if you can do 30 or 40 lbs on a bench press, by the third set when you have done 80 reps of chest and triceps exercises with no rest, you may have to back way off on the amount of weight you use in the last set.
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