This particular week of workouts was all done mostly in a hotel, as I was out of town at the Together for the Gospel conference in scenic Louisville, Kentucky. It was a great conference, and the hotel had a great fitness center, but man, I like me some kettlebells and they didn’t have any.
But that didn’t stop me from getting some good, quick training sessions in before sessions began. Here’s what I did:
Monday (4/2)
Five rounds:
- Five rounds:
- 60# Dumbbell Bench Press – 5 reps
- Pull-ups – 5 reps
- 8 minutes – 40# Dumbbell Turkish Get-ups
Tuesday (4/3)
Stretching for 20 minutes.
Wednesday (4/4)
Five rounds:
- 60# Dumbbell Bench Press – 5 reps
- Pull-ups – 5 reps
Thursday (4/5)
- 8 minutes – 55# Dumbbell Turkish Get-ups
- Three rounds:
- 60# Dumbbell Bench Press – 5 reps
- 50# Weighted Pull-ups – 2 reps
Friday (4/6)
Five rounds:
- 60# Dumbbell Bench Press – 5 reps
- 55# Weighted Pull-ups – 2 reps
Row machine for five minutes.
This was the whole “less is more” approach to exercise, of which I’m becoming a believer. Also, I should mention that throughout the week, in and out of the fitness center, I continued to work on my pistol squats and one-armed pushups. This earned a few weird glances at the Denver airport, but it’s okay. I’m looking forward to more of a return to normalcy this week.
You may also be wondering about overtraining of the same muscles by my doing the same exercises on consecutive days. Well, if you are working on max strength, you can do what I did. None of these were crazy cardio workouts. I never once worked to failure; I was still pretty fresh at the end of each training session. If you’re working to “grease the groove” as is sometimes said, you’re developing muscle memory, utilizing correct form and optimizing tension in the muscles. That’s what I was trying to do. If I were working to failure or for high reps or maxing out in any of these things, I could’t have (at least wisely) done them on consecutive days.
