Daily Notes
Day 10: August 25, 2015
Notes From Matt
We are continuing to keep calories increased slightly his look continues to improve while his bodyweight is stable from increasing food just slightly. Today to aid in the overall goal of keeping his body responsive we have planned a rest day, it’s been a solid 9 straight days of training. I’m a believer in rest doing the body good especially late in prep so this is very much a part of how we approach things as a team. Push hard and recover so that we can continue pushing hard!
Be sure to following along today on IG and Snapchat as we document the training day!
@dallasmccarver and @mattjansen8
Off day from training
Aug 25 Diet
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Meal1 2 Whole Eggs Meal 2 – Post training Meal 3 |
Meal 4 Meal 5 Meal 6 |
Cardio
25 min
Training – From August 24
Back workout at Project Flex with Dallas and Joe Bennett. These past two days have been filmed by REDCON1 so be on the lookout for the footage!
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Exercise 1 Vertical neutral shoulder grip pulldown -Focusing on pulling elbows in front of us tucking into elbows and not allowing elbows to flair Into Seated dual d handle low row – keeping upper body in a fixed position leaning in towards pulley. Really focus on keeping elbows tucked and pulling arms low into waist truly getting at waist level at finishing position and not rib cage 3 sets working on fully activating lats in both vertical and horizontal planes 10 reps each with slow 3-4 second eccentrics and contraction isometric holds on each rep. Exercise 2 Hammer high row with a neutral grip holding on to the arm of the machine rather than fixed handle -We keep our butt back on these and chest fixed into the pad really forcing your back to do the work and not momentum 3 heavy working sets with full contraction plus stretch constant tension partials aiming for 8-10 reps + 5 partials. The last set we did a double drop set aiming for 6 reps on each drop. Exercise 3 This next movement Joe selected for is with a lower lat emphasis done on the seated horizontal hammer row using the neutral grip. With your lead arm use the same lead leg and use your alternate arm and leg to stabilize. Lean forward pushing your body away from the machine to start the movement and then stand up fully. The fixed plane of motion you get on this machine while standing allows the machine to really hit low on the waist at peak contraction. Really focus on keeping your lats in a fixed position and not using momentum. Be sure to check this out on the upcoming video! Exercise 4 Next we moved on to rack pulls…you didn’t think we forget did you! Here we used a starting bar placement right below knee since we had just trained hamstrings the previous day. We worked up to a top set of 3-5 reps and then one hard back off set fully de loading the bar onto the pins each rep for 12. Exercise 5 Inverted bodyweight rows in smith machine. Upper back emphasis here really focusing on holding peak contraction on each rep with our legs fully straight out in front of us. 3 sets to failure STRETCH |
