I spend a solid half hour stretching, the focus on my shoulders with a wooden dowel.
Wouldn’t you know it, but the muscle pumped up again.
I’ve long known that there’s hypertrophy to be gained by really letting the muscles stretch after a pump ala dc training’s loaded stretching.
I take it as a good sign that the muscle, worked hard the day before, and lightly earlier in the session is pumping up as easily from stretching.
Even if I don’t need to, it’s a good idea to stretch more for the euphoria alone. That half hour felt damn good.
What a strange session for me, no pushups, no wall sit. I started with a few sets of leg press, did a set of chinups, a few sets of handstand pushups, and 10×8 of alternating db curls.
A session heavy on biceps, and stretching the shoulders.
It served it’s purpose. Physically I hadn’t terribly wanted to train, but mentally I wanted to, and did.
Sessions like this are just fine. They give you the ability to get more work in, and allow for doing things you wouldn’t normally do.
Since handstand pushups are going well, I see little need to do one arm db press 50s.
The ability to get better on chins and handstand pushups…I can taste it.
I see myself in the mirror and think “with the right calisthenic performances, body recomp without clean eating/dieting is guaranteed”.
Pushups I got great at by doing them all the time. I see no reason not to regularly hit handstand pushups.
Chins? Every other day may be better for me at the moment. I do feel something of a need to get to a set of 20…to show up a kid I sometimes train with.
“What’s that? I’m too heavy to be this good at chins? 100lbs heavier, I beat you to 20.” – calling it
I have this mental image of 30+ handstand pushups, and chins for 10xbw+90. I also have this image of alternate db curls for reps with the 75s.
I’m okay with doing heavyweight calisthenics based upper body bro programming.
It’s the present whim, and looking at my training history over the years, my programming tends to be naught but high frequency of what strikes my fancy at the moment aka on whims.
I’ve yet to max planet fitness out. It’s not absolutely required to be at a barbell gym.
Training? It’s all a game anyway.
Persistence & Tenacity