I really like this routine. It freaking well KILLS my shoulders given their state, but *man* what a pump. I really like the intensity and the transition from shoulders, biceps, triceps...my arms puff up like the Stay-Puff marshmallow man ;)
Those lying side tri-rises yielded a really unexpected surprise today. These things used to give me fits. I can easily knock out 20 of them without trying now, so my chest and triceps have really come along.
I'm upping all my weights in Phase III to max out at 8 reps to see about adding more mass (which is really what I should have done in Phase II ;)
Tomorrow is supposed to be Yoga, but I'm going to do Stretch X as I also have BJJ (and potentially kickboxing and wrestling.) Either way, my shoulders can't take the vinyasa's right now which makes up at least 1/2 of that workout.
This getting to be a bad habit, but Yoga X has just become a drain/drag - 90 minutes of total peace/calm is damned near impossible around here and I'm really not sure the pace/transition of some of those moves really reflects a safe set of exercises for me at this stage. Friends who go to yoga shake their head when they see this video (as do my friends who actually study Kenpo when they see chubby in the corner who doesn't bring it at all! ;)
So listen, get the fundamentals down. Get comfortable with what works for you. Follow the program as well as you can. The first round doesn't have to be perfect, so find your pace and then you'll really be able to get into it when you do the second round.
Push play (what a great cliche')
/Hoff