Hit arms last night and was in the gym for about 1.5 hours or so. It was volume work, so I ended up with:
straight bar curls: 80x25 (x4)
solo DB hammer curls on the preacher bench: 25x25 (x4)
solo cable ring curls (seated, bent over, elbow on the inside of my knee): 60x25 (x4)
solo cable ring tricep pushdowns (like tri bar pushdowns, but one arm at a time using the ring attachment): 65x25 (x4)
solo cable ring tricep reverse curls: 55x25 (x4)
overhead solo DB tricep extensions: 25x25 (x4)
600 total reps and my arms were beyond inflated. Felt amazing.
Since it's been a little over a month since my last HVT arm day, I didn't try to do too much in terms of increasing numbers, so my bicep numbers are all the same, but I did make a 5lb jump on both of the tricep cable movements, so that was nice.
Haven't measured them, lately, but the last time I did, with a pump, my arms were measuring between 20.5" and 21" IIRC.
I'd been using Cellucor's Beta BCAA pre-workout with a few other things, but that just ran out, so my new pre-workout mix is:
- 1 scoop Focus-XT
- 7g citrulline malate
- 4g beta alanine
- 2g LCLT
- 1g agmatine
- 2 scoops OG Xtend (just because I have it and it was opened)
And then intra-workout, as it's been for months, 2 scoops of Compete in half a gallon of water.
Just bought a product from Bodymedia, yesterday, because Bruce (D2footballjrc) just bought one and got his, yesterday. It was only $100 shipped and that includes 3 months of free service to the software ($7/month after that, which isn't bad, all things considered). It's supposed to ship tomorrow, so should be here mid-week, next week. I'm curious if it will tell me that I'm burning a number of calories I'd expect per my age/height/weight/activity level or if it'll be really low and expose my metabolism is still really screwed up. Pretty minimal investment to find out.
Planning on hitting my HVT legs session, this evening.