DAY 5: DEADLIFT PATTERN: (Friday)
PART 1 – HIGH FREQUENCY STRENGTH (trained 4 days a wk so sets are not maximal except for failure on final set
A. Military press 3-4 x 10, 1 x 12 (to failure)
B. Back squat (or front squat) 3-4 x 10, 1 x 12 (to failure)
C. Bench press 3-4 x 10, 1 x 12 (to failure)
the above is awesome, never did high frequency like this but since I am going for moderate weight, not heavy and I am explosively pushing the weight each rep, EVERY REP you get activation from, not just the last few and it is light enough to finish 12 on the final 4th set. I guess high volume training split up thruout the week....
PART II – FOUNDATION WORK
D. Deadlift standing on podium (a pair of 45lbs plates) 4 x 8, 1 x 8 rp,4 rp, 2
I would be standing on the equivalent of 2-45 plates each lig, this forces me to go slightly deeper in the movement, of course I aint maxing out on it, I am doing moderate weight sets.
PART III – STRUCTURAL WORK (same weight from week to week)
PRE-FATIGUE F (superset, 60-90SEC BETWEEN SETS)
E1. Lying leg curl 3 x 8
E2. Romanian deadlift 3 x 8
this is going to seriously fatigue my leg biceps above
PRE-FATIGUE G (superset, 60-90SEC BETWEEN SETS)
F1. Clean high pull 3 x 8
F2. Barbell shrugs (2 sec. hold at peak/ same weight as F1) 3 x max
basically with the shrug, I do the cleans first an when I am done with the 8 reps, I immediately turn the exercise into a barbell shrug while still holding the weight til failure.
the high pull followed by the shrug copletely burns the traps.... since the high pull uses alot of trap , I am goingto try to high pull to my eyes.