So yesterday, Josh and I hit Chest with a little vengeance. After doing the Tough Mudder on the 14th I suffered a bit of a shoulder impingement - luckily it wasn't anything that one trip to my Chiropractor couldn't fix but it did make me miss my chest workout last week.
This week I was ready to UNLEASH the MAYHEM on my chest.
I'm changing up my training protocol just a bit to get myself more conditioned for competitions, but I don't want to lose any strength, in fact, I need to keep building my strength up as much as possible.
So I'm doing a little Hybrid Training by mixing it up with Powerlifting, Bodybuilding and Conditioning all in one workout.
I know I'll get a lot of questions about this style of training, you can't really focus on all of that at once, can you?
Joe Defranco would even say, there is a time for Strength and then a time for Conditioning and I agree 100% so most of my focus right now is still on raw power, however, throwing in a bit of bodybuilding and conditioning with this method will continue to take me to the next level in my training.
Today we hit Chest so I started with 5 sets of 5 on the Bench Press for overall Strength.
From there I moved onto 2 Bodybuilding cycles - 1st being the Incline Bench for four sets of 10 / 8 / 6 / 15 reps. Then finished off with Decline Flyes for 3 sets of 10.
Finally, I hit 8 rounds TABATA Burpees making sure I got full range of motion with my Push-ups for my conditioning. This workout took just under an hour to complete (including a 10 minute warmup) and it felt great to be up under the Barbell again.
Josh mixed it up a bit utilizing the War Machines for Cable Cross Overs (nope, can't do that on TRX) and hitting some Decline Bench work today.
Check out these video clips of Josh and I Getting Work Done!
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