Tuesday, October 20, 2009

H.I.T: Once a Week Workout

I want to have more muscles and be stronger but I am lazy as all hell and hate going to the gym. I love to run around and play sport and hike but doing some kind of routine weight training thing gives me the blues. So I decided that a Mike Mentzer style training was the thing for me. So I came up with my own plan. Basically I will do a fully body weight lifting routine once a week. I will do one set of each exercise to failure and then move on the the next exercise with little to no rest. There is only a handful of exercises that I will do:

weighted squats
shoulder press
pull downs
pull ups
dips
bench press
rows

Notice there is no abs in this. I believe that the other exercises work the abs more than enough. It is low body fat % which gives the six pack.

I will also do a very short warm-up to get the central nervous system activated:

1-3 minutes very fast running
a few pushups
a few pullups

So starting next weekend, Oct. 24-25 I am going to document my progress with photos and a training log as a kind of experiment to see if this works.

Recently, I added two exercises that I forgot! Oops gotta do those dip and pullups. They are essential to upper body strength.

2 comments:

  1. Enjoy the experiment; seeing and tracking visible progress is a real benefit in HIT.

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  2. Hi Jim,

    I am going to track by body fat %. I was going to use photos too but Im embarrassed. I might still do it anyway.

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