Resistance band exercises (upper body)

Utilizing resistance bands for exercise are a great way to recover from injury, warm up before starting your workout, and adding some form of variety to your programs. Not to mention you can add them to your main exercises to add some form of extra resistance.    Today’s post will go over some upper body exercises usingContinue reading “Resistance band exercises (upper body)”

Bench day (heavy)

Warm Up: Rear delt machine: 4 x 25, 10 lbs bicep machine: 4 x 25, 20 lbs DB triceps kickback: 4 x 25. 5 lbs Workout: Barbell bench press: 5 x 2-3 (80% 1RM) 95 lbs wide grip barbell bench press: 5 x 8-10, 70 lbs close grip barbell bench press: 5 x 8-10, 70Continue reading “Bench day (heavy)”

Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press (How To)

  I find that this one of my favorite exercises for the shoulders, mostly due because of how simple the movement is and because I enjoy working shoulders — the more dominant area of my body. This movement can be done seated or standing but for the sake of this particular post, I will beContinue reading “Seated Dumbbell Shoulder Press (How To)”

Monday Bench press session

Bench with speed and power So today was definitely a reboot day considering I haven’t been to the gym since Friday — because I used Saturday and Sunday as my rest days; so coming back today, I created my own workout plan utilizing the information I learned from Matt Wenning, I made today a dynamicContinue reading “Monday Bench press session”

New Way of Doing Things

Time for me to finally hop off the Jim Wendler program and re-focus my attention on the things that Matt was telling me Tuesday so that when I schedule to see him in May, he can see I have developed in some form or fashion or at least have started implementing my programs around myContinue reading “New Way of Doing Things”