I’ve
designed this great twice-a-week gym workout to do the next couple months during
my busy work season.
It's well thought
out and has the strength and conditioning emphasis I want. But now a left bicep strain has put the pullups and chinups component of these workouts on hold.
In addition, last week I had to make other adjustments because I wasn't mentally or physically at my best.
But I continue making good progress with a single set of bar dips done during one of these workouts. Last Saturday, I banged out a 20-rep maximum effort set. I was pleased because those 20 reps, for this 200-lb. middle-aged man, represent two tons of bodyweight moved up and down using only upper body strength.
But I continue making good progress with a single set of bar dips done during one of these workouts. Last Saturday, I banged out a 20-rep maximum effort set. I was pleased because those 20 reps, for this 200-lb. middle-aged man, represent two tons of bodyweight moved up and down using only upper body strength.
The high-intensity interval training part of my workout is also going well. It's high-intensity and short duration running on a treadmill for a 20-minute torture session in my anaerobic heart rate zone. The plan is for me to work harder each workout than the previous one until I eventually hit my anaerobic zone brick wall.
Something is better than nothing and at this middle-aged man point in my life, there’ll be training days where I won’t be able to do as prescribed and, therefore, will have to improvise.
Something is better than nothing and at this middle-aged man point in my life, there’ll be training days where I won’t be able to do as prescribed and, therefore, will have to improvise.
Pax
Domini sit semper vobiscum
4 comments:
Did the bicep strain come from doing chin ups and pull ups?
I believe heavy weighted pullups was the injury bandit.
I think you are fortunate that dips do not bother your shoulders. I used to do sets of 20 in my late teens and early 20s. When I tried to do in my late 50s I hurt my shoulder. Due to my advanced age it took almost a year to heal. I will stick with pushups.
Pain-free training is fickle; here today and gone tomorrow. But wise training can always be the stable thread of how we train.
Despite occasional middle-aged man outchies, we can always train around them. They are blessings in disguise because they allow us to devote time to training areas we may have neglected.
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