Wrapping up week 1 of upper body volume. Doing a lot of dumbbell, machine, uni-lateral, and high rep work these next few weeks..
A. Wide Grip Cable Lat Pulldown - 4x12
B. Plate Loaded Machine Chest Press - 5x15
C. Flat Dumbbell Pause Presses - 4x12 w/ 100lb dumbbells
D1. Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Presses - 5x15 w/ 40lb dumbbells
D2. Dumbbell Shrugs - 5x12 w/ 100lb dumbbells
E1. Cable Tricep Pushdowns - 4x20
E2. Overhead Paused Dumbbell Tricep Extensions - 4x5
E2. Dumbbell Shoulder Raises (Lateral) - 4x15
F1. Dumbbell Hammer Curls - 4x15
F2. Supinated Hammer Curls - 4x8
Subject of the Article I just finished for next month...
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
-C.S. Lewis
Too often, we can find ourselves focusing on the idea of creating something original, without even remembering why the idea was needed in the first place. Let's remember it's about helping others, not always about building a name for ourselves...
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