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You see, this program is quite unique.  Normally you are told "do 6 to 10 repetitions for your upper body and 8 to 12 repetitions for your lower body."  This means that for an upper body exercise you are looking for a weight that you can handle at least 6 times, but not more than 10 times.  If you hit or exceed 10 repetitions you are to increase your weight on that exercise.  With this program that isn't what happens.  You test yourself for every exercise in the program.  This determines your optimal rep range for each exercise in the program.  Thus, according to my own results, when I do my bench press, I should aim for 6 to 8 repetitions. On bicep curls I should aim for 5 to 7 repetitions.  Both are upper body exercises, but both have different repetition ranges.

Tomorrow I will go back into the gym and test myself for the final half of the exercises in the program.  I am excited about this program because it not only has some different exercises, the approach is a bit different as well.  Watch my workout logs as M5 progresses for more on this concept.

 

The weight lifting program will be a High Intensity Training program that will run for 10 complete weeks.  It will have certain body part focuses on various weeks.  The aim is to spur growth in lagging body parts.  This is accomplished through some special supersets that are interspersed into the H.I.T. workouts.  I am dying to give this a try because supersets combined with H.I.T. is going to be incredibly intense to say the least!

M5 will end on Valentine's Day 2009.  My PRW for this mission is to be in the greatest shape of my life for my wife on Valentine's Day. 

My M4 is coming to a close, with tomorrow being the final day.  What great timing–my final workout of my 12 week H.I.T. cycle happens on the final day of my M4!  I did not plan it that way, it just worked out that way.  Alot has happened in the past 400 days, but the majority of my muscular gains have come in the past 12 weeks.

I am completely excited to see what happens over the next mission.  I am currently dialoging with Carlos DeJesus regarding M5 and potentially M6.  I threw an idea at Carlos and was interested in his response.  Together we have decided upon two new missions, one for M5 and another for M6.  I will also be setting some strength goals very soon.  In fact, on the Day 400 post I will simply post my results from M4. There will be no commentary.  I will just post my results, my accountability log, my workout log, the burning thought and the question of the day, that's it.  I will be letting the results speak for themselves.  Day 401 will have my goals for M5 and an outline of M5.  I have decided that M5 will not start right away.  I am going to take that 1 week of rest and not include that in M5.  I think I will call that week "M4ost-Game Recharge" as far as categories go.  I will then begin M5 in earnest the following week.  It is going to be intense and I plan on getting even bigger over the next mission.

Today I had some time to think (took the day off) and I started thinking about a concert I attended on Friday with my son, Matthew.  Matty got invited by a hockey friend to go see As I Lay Dying (a Christian hard core band) at the Grove in Anaheim.  I went along to chaperone.  I actually like the music, but was not impressed with what I had heard on MP3.  The concert itself was incredibly good.  The music was very powerful and the band was extremely good live.  However, what struck me is how hard the crowd was working during the show.