Old-School Iron

Well, yet another server crash. Again, however, I shall leave the technical details to Kris, but it seems there’s either a bug in the system itself or perhaps some library of something corrupt somewhere.

And actually, I switched training systems again.
Yes, I know I said I’d be doing the Pearl program, but: the time it takes to go through a single workout is around two hours. Right now, I just don’t have enough time to do that. I will most likely return to the longer program at some point, because I do feel it’s great overall conditioning and would recommend it to anyone wanting some variation from a regular split program like the ones that are so popular nowadays.

So, I had this really evil thought, about a seriously nasty type of training and decided to give it a whirl.
Having now done a weeks’ worth of training in my new “intracycle” style, I can say that it definitely is quite taxing. I call these intracycles, because in training terms a microcycle usually refers to a week or so, but these cycles go on within the exercises themselves, rendering the term microcycle too large. And of course, calling it a macrocycle is way out the window. A month, yeah right…

Here’s the general gist of the nastyprogram:
Some readers may know about my cycle-training, where the training is split up into three distinct phases, or cycles lasting about 4 weeks each, where the first month is regular, heavy training with a 8-12 rep-range, the second month a superslow 60 sec set with 6 reps done, and the third month a fast pumping 20-30 reps… And it’s nasty, really nasty.

Well, I figured the only thing nastier would be to include all of them at the same time!

Enter current system. I do 6 sets per exercise, and have “intracycles” per each exercise, where set 1 is 8-12, set 2 is 60sec, set 3 is 15-20, and then once again through the cycle. HA!
Well, the joke is on me, since this is really intense. It burns like hell, the second heavy set is really nasty and I feel dead after each workout. Not completely, but let’s say the muscles involved are deep-fried. My triceps still ache, and it’s been what – 4 days since the workout? Unusual for me to be sore for so long, since I recover in roughly two days from almost anything.

Having now been on this newest of new programs for a couple weeks, I can say it’s pretty darned interesting.

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