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Well, I just finished my first week of ateamer's split. I remembered something and learned at least 2 things.
I remembered the reason I like full body workouts. It is easier if you miss a workout. If you miss one workout your whole body will get worked the next time you work out. On a split, if you miss a workout, it is a loing time between workouts for that section of your body. Now, it wasn't me that missed a workout, but my son missed one because of music lessons. I hadn't planned properly. WHat I did was workout 2 consecutive days to make up for it. I thought that might be OK since it was different halves of the body. I guess this is one advantage to full body workouts.
What I learned is that I have a terrible work capacity on my pressing movements. Today was the second pressing movement day of this week. SO, according to my understanding of the slpit, I was supoosed to be in the 6 to 8 rep range. I was shootring for 8 reps. By the time I got to presses, I was shot. I was at about 60% of my 1RM to squeese out 6 reps. It was awful. I have trerrible work capacity!
Another lesson learned is that since I never train at anything greater than 5 rep sets, eight reps is darn near impossible. I really had to back off the weight to get that many reps, even when fresh. 8 reps in the CGMP made my tris feel really pumped. One of the reasons I like low reps is because I don't like that pumped feeling.
As a side, as a finisher, I did 50 sandbag loads into the back of my truck. That was fun.
Jack
I remembered the reason I like full body workouts. It is easier if you miss a workout. If you miss one workout your whole body will get worked the next time you work out. On a split, if you miss a workout, it is a loing time between workouts for that section of your body. Now, it wasn't me that missed a workout, but my son missed one because of music lessons. I hadn't planned properly. WHat I did was workout 2 consecutive days to make up for it. I thought that might be OK since it was different halves of the body. I guess this is one advantage to full body workouts.
What I learned is that I have a terrible work capacity on my pressing movements. Today was the second pressing movement day of this week. SO, according to my understanding of the slpit, I was supoosed to be in the 6 to 8 rep range. I was shootring for 8 reps. By the time I got to presses, I was shot. I was at about 60% of my 1RM to squeese out 6 reps. It was awful. I have trerrible work capacity!
Another lesson learned is that since I never train at anything greater than 5 rep sets, eight reps is darn near impossible. I really had to back off the weight to get that many reps, even when fresh. 8 reps in the CGMP made my tris feel really pumped. One of the reasons I like low reps is because I don't like that pumped feeling.
As a side, as a finisher, I did 50 sandbag loads into the back of my truck. That was fun.
Jack
