Monday 8/11/08

For Today:

Warm-up - 5 minutes light to medium cardio, low weight bench press, assisted or negative pull-ups. Until you're warm, duh.

Workout:
5 rounds of 10 rep benchpress at as close to bodyweight as you can handle.
Alternate with 5 rounds of pull-ups.

You want to push yourself; it's okay if you take a break midway through a set, but you should be able to get through the first couple rounds without breaking, and if you need more than one break, you should scale it back a tad next time. Or not, I'm not the boss of you. On the pullups, if you need to take more than one break, you can finish with negatives (jump into the 'up' position and then slowly lower yourself back to starting.

Oh yeah, this is timed.

Nick's Time: 18:48. A little slow, but it was a long day and I'm beat up from a physical week.
I switched from the bar bench to dumbbells, just for variety. It's a good idea to rotate between bilateral movements (olympic bar) and unilateral movements (dumbbells) every now and then. More on this in a later post.