Sometimes you look at a workout on paper and know it will hurt. For instance here’s a little example of an average training session provided by Ricky Long of RickFitNI…
1km row … (ok I think to myself)…
Followed by ‘ light Grace’ (30 clean and presses with 20kg) … (fair enough i think).
THREE TIMES.
THREE TIMES!!!!
INSERT SWEAR WORD HERE (now i am slightly less looking forward to this)!!!
Now i’m not a huge fan of rowing but it was doable, lifting the bar straight after however hurt! By the last set my shoulders were in bits!
But i was not done…
21/15/9 of dumbbell rows and dumbbell push press.
This sounds ok except, when you’ve just rowed 3km and done 90 clean and presses, a tin of beans would feel heavy.
I used 2 10kg dumbbells.
They felt heavy!
To finish this monster of an upperbody workout i did a 15 minute AMRAP:
200m row
20 push ups
20 clean and presses with 15kg
I got 3 rounds and a 99m row in.Not great. Best i could do though.
I wanted to cry.
But at the end of it i felt good. LOTS of upperbody work, lots of conditioning.
I do 4 sessions like this a week and my fitness has improved dramatically as a result (as has my body composition!). No body part splits just lots and lots of big moves that work lots of muscles each session.
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Heather Sherwood Fitness 