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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: January 12, 2015, 10:22:30 am »for curls: more volume. sets of 10-12. also add direct tricep work, either DB kickbacks or rope/cable pressdowns.
for lats: pull ups have more lat involvement than chin ups, so maybe switch to pronated rather than supinated grip. i also find that kroc rows are awesome for the whole upper back: lats, traps and posterior delts. and good for grip, too.
Suggestions Yay!
Just a bit more info. My arms are mostly tricep - from a diet of close grip everythang - inc chinups, bench press (and ohp too for that matter). Not that they're huge triceps but i feel the part i need to attack is not so much triceps though since i've always targeted it and always will - just the way I do my upper body work.
I can add more volume to curls, i'll start with an extra set of 10 and see if it's enough. I usually do 2x6xheavy + 2x8-12 medium to failure for a total of around 24 reps.
I never did pullups because Rip convinced me to prefer to ego-chase chinup . Which admittedly never did little for me so perhaps it's time to venture out and give the pullup a shot. Negative on the kroc rows - feel them more in my arms. Heck there is nothing that hits my lats that I can remember. THough it might be my form...... i don't think my torso is as horizontal as it needs to be when i gave rows a shot (1arm and barbell). Is there an exercise i can do do you think which I will feel immediately in my lats as opposed to chest or arms or whatever? :s
edit. just remembered the last time i made my lats sore was actually recently, doing heavy (200kgish) front squat walkouts. Should do those again and on the regular.. hmmm..