Hardcore Workouts

Had a great workout yesterday. I did...

1) Bench Press
2) Clean
3A) Dumbell Incline Press
3B) Dumbbell Row
3C) Back Extensions

I thought I was one tough dude after doing that...

 

But last night, I flew down to Newark, NJ, and met up with legendary strength coach, Zach Even-Esh. We're doing a seminar on Thursday and Friday.

Zach took a look at my workout and said, "Bro, you can make that even tougher."

And then he suggested this...

REAL Man Workout # 1
 
1A) bench 4 x 3 - 6 reps (pyramid each set)
1B) clean 4 x 3 - 6 reps (pyramid each set)
 
** no rest between A & B, rest 1 min. after B

2A) db incline 3 x 6 - 10 (pyramid each set) - medium, heavy, heavier
2B) 1 arm db row 3 x 10 - 15 (1 medium set, 2 heavy sets)

(Zach rows 130 for 20 + reps and 150 for 10+ reps, no wimpy weights! I was only using 110 for 10 reps!)

3) back extension or KB swings 2 x 15 - 20 reps ==> superset with an ab exercise for same rep range
 
OR, Zach said to place a time limit on each superset, say 5 minutes and hit max rounds in 5 minutes, reps on bench and clean would be sets of 5, reps on incline and 1 arm row would be 10 each
 
It gets brutal with supersets for time!
 
Whew! That's tough just thinking about it.

 

If you want to train hard to the core...

 

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Tomorrow, Zach shares with us how to "toughen up" a bodyweight workout.

Stay strong,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

 

PS - Zach has a special gift waiting for you here:

 

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