HECTIC Week

This is going to be a very long week. Monday and today I am doing a 5am-5pm at the Waltham gym, then going directly to Powerhouse to lift and train a few clients.
The good news is that football season is right around the corner. Time for the Pats to get pissed off, do something about last season, and shut up all the cheater claims.
Last night called for pull training:

Chins (Rotate between regular chins and hammer grip chins): Complete 50 reps (my training partner and I would do chins to failure, wait for the other to be done, then jump right back up. It took 5 sets for me to hit 50.)

Hammer Strength High Pulls supersetted with Cable Face Pulls: 3 sets
190lbs x 15, 70lbs x 12
240lbs x 15, 70lbs x 12
290lbs x 10, 70lbs x 10

Reverse Grip EZ Bar Curls supersetted with Incline Dumbbell Hammer Curls:3 sets
60lbs x 12, 25's x 8
60lbs x 12, 25's x 7
60lbs x 12, 25's x 8

Nice and quick. It took 45 minutes to complete.

I trained Term right after my lifting. Needless to say I kicked the shit out of him again, but he wouldnt give in. I got another one of his boys from ST. Da Squad coming to the gym now too, he goes by Hectic. Dude is motivated, so Im looking to start helping him get ready for the cameras too.

Hip dominant legs tonight!!!! Then I got tomorrow off to play golf and train in the afternoon. Yezziiiiiiiir!!!!

Here is a short read on why I do not have my athletes perform aerobic work:

Aerobics Sucks
Q: Coach Poliquin, you've said: "... the more lower body aerobic work you do, the more your vertical jump worsens. The more upper body aerobic work you do, the more your medicine ball throws worsen." Also, "Continuous aerobic work plateaus after 8 weeks of training so anything more is counterproductive." So what are your general aerobic-related recommendations?

A: First, for fat loss purposes, I find aerobic training to be worthless. Most people are already stressed enough, and aerobic work only further stresses the adrenals.

Second, genetically speaking, we're made to throw a rock at a rabbit, not to run after it. We're not aerobically designed machines; we're designed for short bursts. Slow, continuous aerobic work also interferes with the brain's ability to recruit high-threshold motor units and interferes with power development.
I don't make any of my athletes do aerobic work unless they compete in an aerobic sport. And yet my athletes score really high on aerobic tests. My hockey players always have the highest VO2 max at camp, and all we do is interval training a few weeks out of camp. People can't believe my players don't do aerobic work in the summer.
In the '92 Olympics, the Canadian alpine ski team actually surpassed the cross-country team on aerobic scores using this method as measured by third party university labs.
One of the guys from the Green Bay Packers asked for a copy of my running program. I gave him some blank sheets of paper and said, "Here, you can have it all!"
Listen, the research is very clear: Having a so-called aerobic base doesn't make you handle interval training any better. And most sports are basically interval training: short bursts followed by a rest, then another short burst.
American football is just a few seconds of action followed by a longer rest. Hockey is forty-five seconds on, a minute and thirty-five seconds off.
What type of interval training do my athletes do? Usually it goes by the sport. In hockey we do everything on skates, so we'd do skating sprints. As the summer progresses, my athletes do longer work intervals and shorter rest intervals

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