That was brutal, I need to get a bigger water bottle. At least I found my 15-rep maxes today and won't have to tire myself out with all that guess-and-check again.
One big surprise - I could only lift 5 pound dumbells in a lateral raise with good form. I'm going to have to go to the desk and ask for the pink dumbells. 🙂
But the whole cycle/SD thing seems pretty cool, and I got my nerdy little notepad with me and my Excel spreadsheet on the computer.
"Dave K" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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That was brutal, I need to get a bigger water bottle. At least I found my 15-rep maxes today and won't have to tire myself out with all that guess-and-check again.
One big surprise - I could only lift 5 pound dumbells in a lateral raise with good form. I'm going to have to go to the desk and ask for the pink dumbells. 🙂
But the whole cycle/SD thing seems pretty cool, and I got my nerdy little notepad with me and my Excel spreadsheet on the computer.
"Dave K" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:
That was brutal, I need to get a bigger water bottle. At least I found my 15-rep maxes today and won't have to tire myself out with all that guess-and-check again.
One big surprise - I could only lift 5 pound dumbells in a lateral raise with good form. I'm going to have to go to the desk and ask for the pink dumbells. 🙂
But the whole cycle/SD thing seems pretty cool, and I got my nerdy little notepad with me and my Excel spreadsheet on the computer.
Have you tried something similar before? What was your training like before this? Split, heavy volume?
It was on-and-off, usually not a split routine, and never heavy volume. Most recently, it was 3x week, 2-3 sets per exercise, 4-5 exercises, going to failure every set, and only loosely keeping track of the weight (which plateaud). Whereas the HSTroutine I'm organizing is 1-2 sets per exercise, 12 exercises.
7 months should give time for 4 complete cycles and show apples-and-apples as far as how much i can lift and whether I plateaud. So if I stick with it and remember in 7 months, I'll do that.
