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Friday
Feb202015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Wednesday Back and Biceps Home

1:31 minutes - 1005 Calories - Average Heart Rate 135 - Max Heart Rate 168.
Location: Home Gym

Light first sets instead of doing a warmup

Strength:
  • Wide single arm Pull Downs x2 sets (Lats)
  • Wide Pull-ups x2 sets (Lats)
  • Narrow single arm Pull Downs x2 sets (Lats)
  • Chin-ups x2 sets (Lats)
  • Seated Rows x2 sets (Lats & Middles Back)
  • Straight arm pull down x4 sets (Lats & Core)
  • Preacher Curls with Cables x4 sets (Biceps)
  • Single Arm Curls with Cables x4 sets (Biceps)
  • Front Lever combined with Toes to Bar x2 sets (Abs, Core, Lats)
Thursday
Feb192015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Tuesday Shoulders Home Accessory

1:01 minutes - 618 Calories - Average Heart Rate 128 - Max Heart Rate 156.
Location: Home Gym

Warmup & Mobility
  • Rotator cuff work & Stretching
Strength:
  • Rear cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Rear Delt)
  • Front cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Front Delt)
  • Side cable shoulder raises x3 sets (Side Delt)
  • Rear cable shoulder pull using rope x3 sets (Rear Delt)
  • Shrugs using Smith Machine x4 sets (Traps)
  • Cable Side Bends - 1 long set increasing weight, then a drop set at the end (Obliques - Side Abs)
Wednesday
Feb182015

Full Week of Workout Videos - Tuesday Shoulders CrossFit

47 minutes - 522 Calories - Average Heart Rate 136 - Max Heart Rate 181.
Warmup & Mobility

Strength:
  • Front Shoulder Press - 135 lbs x3
  • Front Shoulder Press - 155 lbs x3
  • Front Shoulder Press - 175 lbs x3
  • Front Shoulder Press - 185 lbs x3
  • Front Shoulder Press - 195 lbs x1
METCON:
  • 4 Rounds
  • 12 Upright Rows using straight bar with 135 lbs
  • 10 Pushups
  • 10 Situps
Wednesday
Feb182015

Full Week of Workout Videos Coming Up...

I am happy to announce that I will be recording a weeks worth of my workouts so that you can see exactly what my workout week consists of. This is something that I have been asked to do many times so I figured I better get off my but and get it done!

So this is what is going to happen... I will record all the actual activity during my workouts, so just the actual workout parts, none of the sitting around resting, who wants to watch that anyways. I will also be wearing my Garmin Heart Rate Monitor and recording my heart rate during all the workouts which will show you guys how each workout effected me. You will see my heart rate throughout the entire workout, my average heart rate, my max heart rate, total time of my workout and my calories burned during the workout. This Heart Rate information will be displayed at the end of each workout video with a link in the description of teh video and on my Website post to my Garmin account for that workout session.

Generally my workout week starts on Monday but I am starting recording on Tuesday, don't worry, we will get back around to Mondays workout at the end.

Typically this is how a workout week will go but it does change around sometimes a bit.

  • Monday: CrossFit Leg Squat Workout.
  • Monday: At Home or in the Gym Leg Accessory Workout.
  • Tuesday: CrossFit Shoulders Workout.
  • Tuesday: At Home or in the Gym Shoulder Accessory Workout.
  • Wednesday: At Home or in the Gym Back & Biceps Workout.
  • Thursday: CrossFit Leg Deadlift Workout.
  • Thursday: At Home or in the Gym Leg Accessory Workout.
  • Friday: CrossFit Chest Workout (We usually hit Triceps too).
  • Friday: At Home or in the Gym Chest & Triceps Accessory Workout.
  • Saturday: At Home or in the Gym Misc Accessory Workout, Usually hit Shoulders and Calves again or anything that got missed during the week.
  • Sunday: Rest Day usually.
  • Abs get hit pretty much at the end of every workout.

 Hope you enjoy the workouts :)

Friday
Feb132015

February 2015 Update - Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit - New Fitness Contest Dates

This video covers some information about the Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit which ties in their SCS Bench to their Leg Extension Accessory so you can attach the bench and leg add on to the FT2 weight stack using the cables.

The problem I am having in my area is my local Fitness Depot where I bought my Inspire FT2 has been out of the Inspire Bench and leg attachment. So what is a person to do? Improvise! I already a different brand of adjustable bench with leg attachment so I did some preliminary eye balling , grabbed my drill and added the Inspire Fitness Leg Conversion Kit to my already existing bench and leg attachment. I am sure that this is not what Inspire Fitness had in mind and if one was to do this, it would be at their own risk because not all of us are handy with tools and fabrication...

All in all my work was sound and everything works really well using my improvised setup!

My next point of discussing in this update video is a change in plan for my Men's Physic fitness contest prep. I was planning to attend the BC Body Building Championships here in Vancouver Canada as I am qualified from my last contest where I placed 1st :) The problem is a conflict of interest. The BC's are to be held on May 23rd which happens to be the same day of a close friends wedding of which I am a groomsman. Since I can not change either date, I had to pick the more important occasion and decided to go to the wedding. Such is life and we must adapt to what life gives us and make the best of it.

There is always next year for me to enter another BC qualified Men's Masters Physique Fitness Contest, but for this year I have decided I will most likely attend the Victoria Cup being held on August 15th in Victoria BC.

At least it gives me a bit more time to prepare, I did have plans on coming in with a bit more muscle this time and that takes a lot of work :)