I've been fooling myself on the Bulk: Arms routine for a while now. But I'll get to that in a bit. The routine started of fine with the Progressive Set of Standing Curls. I kept the same weights as before, and when fresh, that weight was fine. Needed just a tiny bit of body motion to get them up on the last couple reps. And the next Single Set of Triceps Extensions. But I was struggling on the last few reps of the last set. By this point, my arms were feeling so pumped. But I didn't want to feel like I was dying too much so I went down on the Force Set by 1.25kgs. It made a big difference. I was able to finish, and almost fail with no mid-set break. I went down more on the next Single Set of Skull Crushers. I remember struggling too much last time, so in order to keep form, I went down 1.25 - 2.5kgs. But this is where I had the biggest change. On the last two Progressive Sets for the biceps and triceps. All the times before I knew my form was terrible on the Hammer Curls. Segi said to keep my elbow connected to my leg, but starting from the middle of the medium ascending weight, my elbow was off my leg, and on the descending round, I was basically swinging the weights up and letting them fall down. So, no more fooling myself with weights that were too heavy, I went down to my threshold so I could keep good form. So This is it: 6.25kgs to 5kgs on the light weight. 8.25kgs to 6.25kgs for the medium weight, and them the heavy weight was 12kgs to 7.5kgs. This time around, I was able to keep my elbow on my leg the entire time... almost. Just on the last few reps it came off a bit, but I didn't swing the weights up at all. I believe I had good clean form almost the whole set. I didn't stand either. I was in complete control the whole time. That goes for the Triceps Kick Backs as well. Same weight decrease. My form was way better. But on the last half, my lats were burning from keeping the dumbbell up for so long. I felt the most pumped I have felt in a long time. Definitely more pumped than the last time around. Doing the Body Beast style routine as compared to the P90X style routine, I was able to lift more weights on all the single sets. The Super Sets, Progression Sets, Force Sets is so different. But the pump was awesome! On the final Set of Weighted Crunches, I, again did it twice with a 12kg weight. First, I did it with the weight on my chest. Easy 30 reps. Then, on the second set, I did 30 reps, but in a different count. Ab were burning so back so I ended up doing a 10-10-5-5 progression to get the full 30reps. In the cool down, I could really feel the pump and burn. After Burn Effect was in full effect. I felt the pump for over half the day. Great to do workouts in the morning. I fill the last space on this worksheet, so I circled today's weights so there wouldn't be and confusion.
I had not time, so I went right into Abs. Third round of "I've Got Abs" and man was it tough. I went back up to 10kgs on the weighted crunches and had a good struggle. I didn't go full tilt like I did the last time. I didn't want to burn out before the end. So I paced myself and I was still able to get a great ab BURN. I was especially happy with the weighted Oblique crunch. I was able to keep my legs straighter than before.
The Splits and Flow had to weight until after work. But today, I took the time to do them before going to my night class. So I was able to just relax after my night class. First time for me to try that schedule, and I think I like it. I got a little sweaty, but I wiped quickly as the beads of sweat were forming so I wiped quickly.
In the End, after the morning session, I torched 803kcals. Felt really great though.
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