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 I completed my testing for my M5 workout plan today. I followed the directions in the book Carlos DeJesus had me purchase and read. After completing the testing I started thinking about the workout plan and the sheets I had set up. I realized that I had only tested for half of the exercises. This prompted a question to Carlos, who answered in the way I expected, but feared at the same time. Carlos said that I have to test for all the exercises in the program. 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. I thought I would mention that during M4 I managed to increase the combined weight of all my exercises by 1,115 lbs. This was all done in just 12 weeks of working out. It is all due to hard work and the principles I've been taught by Carlos DeJesus. The application of these principles is exactly what drives the results. The principles cannot be argued with. They work PERIOD. If you still have doubts, then I submit that perhaps you have your head in the sand. |
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 Today I did my testing for the exercises I will be doing in M5. I am not going to log this workout in the blog today. Suffice to say it was an intense workout. |
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 Principles are the concepts that make up the foundation for any program. They should be the kinds of things that just cannot be argued. |
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 Have you bothered to consider the principles behind the programs you have been using? Comment this post to answer the question. |
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Until tomorrow…GET BACK TO LIFTING! |
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