Showing posts with label volume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volume. Show all posts

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Upper Body Party - Chest and Lats

I'm all for upper body days since they're my favorite. They're also my weakness because truth be told, I don't have too much of a variety of workouts that I do for upper body. I usually break up my upper body days into two parts-- chest/ lats, and chest/ tris. I understand that doing so much chest in a week will result in lesser boobs, but whatever. I had none to begin with anyway.

Lat/ Shoulder Day and Bench

Let's start off with Benching. Benching is SO necessary to perk up your chest, to build your shoulders, and strengthen your lats. 

Bench- warm up 65lbs x10
85 lbs x5
95 lbs x5
100 lbs x5
105 lbs x5

Wide grip bench (targets your lats)
65 lbs x8
85 lbs x5
95 lbs x5

3 sec pause wide grip bench (targets lats, improves bench form)
75 lbs x5
85 lbs x5
95 lbs x3

Bent Over Back Rows (targets lats)
65 lbs x10
75 lbs x10 x 2
85 lbs x 8

Dumbbell Rows (targets lats)
35 lbs x 10 x 5

Dumbbell Shoulder Presses (duh, shoulders)
20 lbs  x 10 x 5

Dumbbell Bicep Curls
15 lbs x 10 x 4 

Pull Ups (targets ego. jk. Pull ups are great for upper body overall)
10 x 3

Dumbbell delt raises (delts)
10 lbs x 10 x 4

Medicine Ball Twists (targets middle back and abs)

10 lbs ball x 30 x 4 

Afterwards, you'll feel so jacked that you are tempted to take a douchey selfie like this


With my hip injury, I've upped the amount of times I work on upper body in a week. I've seen drastic changes in the sculpting of my shoulders and chest during this time. 

Monday, April 25, 2016

Accommodating Injuries - Volume Leg Day

The recipe to that desired big booty is to build mass-- which means for your work outs, increase volume and use heavy weight. I'm accommodating my leg days to the fact that I cannot squat. Check this routine out:

Hip Thrusters
- Bar x 12
- 85 lbs x 15
- 85 lbs x 15
- 85 lbs x 15
- 115 lbs x 12
- 115 lbs x 12

Deficit Romanian Deadlifts
135 lbs x 10 x 4

Leg Press
225 lbs x 12 x 2
275 lbs x 10 x 2

Hamstring Curls 
weighted at 60 lbs x 12 x 5

Quad Leg Extensions
weighted at 55 lbs  x 12 x 5

Curtsey Lunges (These feel SUPER weird to do. But you'd be surprised that it works wonders on your gluts)
20 lbs x 20 x 2
30 lbs x 20 x 2

Walking Lunges
30 lbs on your back x 20 x 3

Bent Over Calf Raises (Body Weight)
Body Weight x 25 x 3

Quite a hefty amount of workouts to do, and quite a lot of volume. But hey, you're not going anywhere with just body weight work outs. Sure you can have a butt, but why not work a bit harder to gain an ASS.