I just finished week 10 of LRB 365 which is a deload week. I continued with my conditioning as I have a fitness test at the beginning of April and I added in two weighted vest walks. Here is a breakdown of my week:
Monday:
Morning: 20 minute weighted vest walk
Box jumps
30" x 3 x 5
Squats
45 x 10
95 x 8
135 x 8
175 x 2 x 5
Pull ups
3 x 7
Pike sit ups
3 x 10
Tuesday
Conditioning
Treadmill Run
20:00 minutes at 6.5 at 1% incline
Wednesday
Standing OH Press
45 x 10
Bench
45 x 10
95 x 8
135 x 6
155 x 2 x 5
Push ups
42, 6
Rows
135 x 3 x 8
Friday
Morning: 20 minute weighted vest walk
Dead lift
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x5
Shrugs
135 x 2 x 20
Curls
45 x 2 x 20
Decline Sit ups
3 x 12
Saturday
1.5 mile run at 12:40
Deload felt good this week, I am going to add push ups to the two press days in the next cycle to get ready for the fitness test. I am going to follow the 50% method, do a set, rest a minute and than try and get 50% of the reps from the first set. I didn't do too well on the first attempt. The weighted vest isn't tough, but man, my traps are on fire when I am done with the walk. A 12:40 1.5 mile run isn't too shabby for a base conditioning level , I have a test in a month, so we will see what I can do, and then I will test again at the end of the cycle to see where my conditioning is at. This next week, I am taking off from the weights, I will do two days of push ups and my conditioning (2 weighted vest walks, 20 minute run, modified hill sprints on the treadmill (down the hill). Also, I love doing the box jumps as part of my warm up for squats, so those are coming back this cycle. I will post my goals for the conditioning and fat loss cycles this coming week.
With the vest, try thinking about relaxing your shoulders. I realized that for some reason I was raising my shoulders up when I was walking with the vest, and that was tiring my traps out. Once I realized it and relaxed it totally went away.
ReplyDeleteI will give that a try, thanks for the tip. I could only imagine how much my traps would be burning after 40 minutes of wearing it.
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