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 Planning is an exciting thing and very effective when done right. Working out the details of your workout plan and analyzing what you are going to do with your nutrition is extremely exciting. It is liberating to look ahead and know just where you are going with your plan. I am currently finalizing my plans for M6. I have 11 days left in M5 and based upon the results I’ve gotten and the changes I’ve seen, I have decided to call the next mission “Getting Competition Ready” in honor of the process I am about to begin. I have 6 months until the competition I want to win. That is a long time and a short time at the same time. In order to make that goal a reality I am going to have to take things to an extreme level and very soon. When I unveil my M6 plans on February 14, 2009 you will see exactly what I mean. This next mission will not be for the weak of heart. I have my workouts planned for the entire M6 time period. I will be doing some very different things. I will be spending 3 days a week directly working the abdominals with some standard exercises and then 1 day weekly working the entire core using some techniques I’ve learned from Firm and Flatten Your Abs by David Grisaffi. That alone will be a major change because I plan to work my abdominals extremely hard and from every single angle imaginable. I will also be doing a High Intensity Training program that is going to change things up alot. First, I will do the “full body slam” with super slow repetitions just like the HIT Squad and then I will be doing the same workout, but with 20 repetitions for the lower body and 15 repetitions for the upper body to change the pace up a bit. I will be upping my cardio an extreme amount. I will be doing cardio training just like a boxer. It is going to be an insane burn. I am still working out my nutritional needs for M6 and that’s why I am doing an experiment right now. I am still following the basic premise from the start of M5, but I’ve made a slight change that seems to be burning more fat. The results at the end of this week will confirm this I suspect. Overall, I am extremely excited to begin my new mission in just 11 days from today. I will be giving more and more details of the mission over the next 11 days, so keep coming back. I can’t do this without your help! |
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 Mike’s Workout Log: 
Matty’s Workout Log: This week is a core-focused workout that had our stomach burning. It is amazing when you pre-exhaust your stomach muscles just how hard the rest of your workout becomes. I realized long ago that the core is a key to success of most exercises, but this workout proved it to me. I am determined to get up to 250 lbs. in my stiff-legged deadlift and soon. My grip has improved alot and that was always my limiting factor in that exercise. Slow repetitions seems to have really boosted up this exercise as I now have to hold the weight for alot longer. On the pull behind the neck we both switched our grips. Instead of the usual wide grip, we brought our hands in so they were just shoulder width apart. I highly recommend this as it really hit my lats harder. I could feel an intense stretch in both the positive and negative portions of the movement. Matty had slight problems with this method. |
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 Plan for your own success because nobody else cares about you as much as you do. |
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Until tomorrow…GET BACK TO LIFTING! |
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