For the last two weeks we’ve had great weather in California. This morning was the first day it was raining since I arrived. Since my mode of transport is a bicycle and the ride to the gym is about ten minutes, needless to say I was soaked by the time I got to the gym.
In terms of the workout today, for my quads I kept it really simple – eight sets of leg press. This is something I like to rotate into my legs routine and it’s a great mass builder for the quads and glutes.
I’d been doing so many high intensity workouts with the trainers lately that I hadn’t had a chance to try out a lot of the great equipment here at Gold’s. Back is something I really enjoy training and I really try to make the most of the opportunity.
There are some great hammer strength machines at Gold’s Venice and these are what I try to take advantage of. We have a few of these that I use back home and there are a few that I don’t have access to – namely a wide grip hammer pull down and hammer low rows (reverse or regular grip).
I’d been doing so many high intensity workouts with the trainers lately that I hadn’t had a chance to try out a lot of the great equipment here at Gold’s. Back is something I really enjoy training and I really try to make the most of the opportunity.
There are some great hammer strength machines at Gold’s Venice and these are what I try to take advantage of. We have a few of these that I use back home and there are a few that I don’t have access to – namely a wide grip hammer pull down and hammer low rows (reverse or regular grip).
Leg training is never easy. Sure there are those people that say they love training legs. That may be so but somehow I can’t quite understand it. Training your legs is painful, often overloads your respiratory system leaving you gasping for air, not to mention the feelings of nausea which more often than not accompanies it. What I do understand, and I sometimes think these people are actually referring to is the feeling of euphoria and accomplishment following completion of a solid session of legs. Nonetheless, training quads and hamstrings with Ofer Samra has left me hobbling around in the days following our workout… in a good way.
I made my way into the gym at 9:40 am to warm up and get ready for my triceps training session with Ofer Samra at 10 am. Ofer was featured together with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie True Lies. To my surprise Ofer was standing there with our photographer Bill.
When I approached them I found out that it was in fact 10:40 am because daylight saving had just begun. Neither myself nor Bill had realized this (especially because I am from Australia) so of course we had to reschedule the training session until the afternoon at 3 pm.
The training I usually do for most body parts is very high volume training. It was working so far but today a trainer showed me something different that I want to share with you all. That trainer was Jerome “Hollywood” Ferguson and today we trained upper back.
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