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FITNESS TIPS FOR 7/23/2003
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Advanced Bodybuilding Weight Lifting Routine
"Crank Up Your Progress"
by Gregg Gillies
If you are feeling a bit burned out or stale on your current
program, if you need a change, or if you just want to stimulate
new and impressive gains in muscle, conditioning and fat loss,
here's a program you just have to try. Let's make no mistake,
this program is far from easy and you need a high level of
mental motivation but if you can give it your all you will
love the progress you make.
This program is not new, but my guess is that you haven't seen
anyone go through it at your gym or fitness club. There's a reason
for that and the reason is it is hard work - very hard work. But,
you only get out of something what you put into it, or as someone
once said, 'successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful
people won't." If you want to be ordinary, do ordinary things, if
you want to be extra-ordinary, well, that's a whole new ball game.
Let's Be Extra-Ordinary, Shall We?
This routine is usually called the 3 x 3 workout and the simple
reasoning for that is that you perform three exercises in a row,
three times without stopping.
Yes, that's nine sets in a row without stopping. But that's all
you do for the workout and then you can go home. And it's a full
body workout so it's as time efficient as it gets. Of course, it's
also about as hard as a weight workout gets. This isn't your
grandparent's circuit training routine.
There are a number of variations you can do but the key is to select
three exercises that target the whole body. So you will want multi-joint
compound movements that target the lower body, the chest and the back.
A few examples are the leg press, bench press, and the curl grip lat
pulldown. You would do each exercise without stopping and repeat
three times. In other words you would do the following without
stopping:
Leg Press, Bench Press, Pulldown,
Leg Press, Bench Press, Pulldown,
Leg Press, Bench Press, Pulldown.
Make sure you use a curl grip on the pulldown due to the more direct
biceps hit from the exercise.
Now, when you begin, you may want to try a 30 second rest interval
between each set. High Intensity training in this manner is brutal,
but you get out of it what you put into it so be prepared to go
through the whole routine without stopping as soon as you possibly
can.
The Program
Exercise Reps Sets
Leg Press 20, 15, 8 3
Bench Press 12, 10, 8 3
Pulldown 12, 10, 8 3
Keep the weights the same until you hit the target repetitions on
the 3rd and final set.
Try starting out by doing this program twice per week. Those really
interested in burning fat may want to throw one interval training
aerobics session in between the two weight workouts, but no more.
As you really start progressing you may find you get better results
working this routine 3 times every two weeks. For example, during
the first week do the workout on monday and friday and next week only
do it on wednesday.
If you work it right, this is as demanding a routine as you will do.
That's the main reason you never see anyone performing this routine.
After a couple break in workouts you shouldn't do this routine for
more than 4 weeks, 6 weeks max, before downshifting the intensity
for a week or so.
The workouts are short, but very taxing. If you tried to adopt this
type of workout at every workout, you'd eventually start dreading your
workouts, then giving them a half hearted effort, then skipping them
altogether. And no matter how result producing a routine is, it can't
produce results if you stop training, right?
What's So Special About This Routine?
Now, what's so special about this routine? A few things, really. It
makes sure you increase the intensity of your workout, which is a key
to muscle growth. By cramming more into a shorter amount of time your
intensity increases greatly over what you were doing previously.
By shortening the workout so much, you are more likely to go all out
on each set because you won't be pacing yourself for a silly two hour
workout. If you've been doing a routine with a decent amount of volume
and numerous workouts per week, this will be quite a change and your
intensity levels will skyrocket, spurring your body into new growth.
On the fat burning side, the routine will elevate your heart rate,
giving you a good cardio workout. Believe me, if you do the typical
cardio routine of most gym goers, this weight workout will be more
of a cardio workout than you are used to.
You will burn more calories during the actual routine. In addition,
due to the intensity level your body's metabolism will stay elevated
long after the workout, burning more calories at rest, and helping
to melt the bodyfat away.
Numerous studies have shown that high intensity training (both weight
training and high intensity interval cardio training) can keep your
metabolism elevated for up to 38 hours after your workout is over.
In other words, train intensely enough, and you'll be burning fat
while doing nothing. Not a bad deal, for a brief period of working
hard.
This workout should only take about 20 minutes, maybe slightly longer
with a few warm up sets. And you'll be doing it only 2 times a week
or less, 3 times max, and only the first week or two when you are
breaking it in. And the workout will build muscle, burn fat, and rev
your metabolism to much higher levels, throwing you headfirst toward
the body you want.
If you put into it what you want to get out of it, you'll see some
fantastic results as long as your nutrition and supplementation programs
are in place.
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