The last few weeks have been a blur with my fathers passing. I am getting in the gym 4 days a week and doing my best to stay focused. I cry and train then I am good. Loosing my dad is the toughest thing I have ever dealt with. Everyone is different in how they deal with things like this. This is new for me so I am having issues and feeling I never knew or want again. I will cover what I have been doing and what my plans are....
A little over 5 weeks have passed since my meet. I have not had a bar on my back nor in my hands since. I really enjoy the off season because it allows me to heal up, take a break from the beating of the main three lifts and get refreashed and ready again for the next training cycle. I need this more as I am now pushing 42 years old and my body reminds me its time to chill some. 25 years of lifting weights can take a toll on you but for the last few years I have really been trying to take better care of my body and rehab, eat better, train smarter and listen to my body more than I did as a younger man. But is that not how it always goes? Always wait till your older to do things you should have when you were younger?....
Awwww the old saying, "Better late than never." or "At least I am doing something about it now." Well there you go....
Its working though. Body Tempering, body buffering, mobility stuff, smarter training....its amazing when you do this stuff on the regular what and how your body reacts. Anyways that's a lot of what I have been doing plus training my girls up for their final push for The Womens Pro/Am this week. I am so excited for them and to see their hard work pay off in just a few days is going to be exciting.
Here is what I have been doing training wise to build up my many weak areas, build some needed size and muscle and working on getting better:
Sunday:
This is usually our bench, tricep, back, shoulders day. No prime movements such as bench-press these past few Sundays.
- Pec Dec
- Cable Flyes
- Tsunami Bar Tri Pressdowns
- Overhead Mach standing press
- Overhead standing mach press one hand
- Rope Tri Press downs
- Banded piston pumps
- Front delt raises
- Wide grip lat pull downs
- seated row mach
- DB Shrugs
- BB Shrugs
- Seated Chest press mach
- T bar rows
- Close grip lat pull pull downs
These are a number of things that I am doing to build up areas that need it the most. I use a variation of these movements each Sunday doing a minimum of 500 reps total but upwards of a 1000 total reps total depending on how I feel and what I need to do. Each are light, light-medium or medium weight. I am really working the muscles. Slow and strict and making sure the muscle group working is fully engaging and getting the most out of each rep. I am not making any of this complicated. I go train for 2 hours as hard as I can with short breaks and leave.
I will cover each of my training days as I continue this off season regimen I am currently on and explain more what's next and get my meet video and write up posted as soon as I can. I do apologize for the lack of posts as of late....