Well my first week of upper/lowers is done, and I can honestly tell you that my legs have never been so sore. Its not like I have never done a legs session before, but Tuesdays workout was just soooo hard (in a good way, lol). I could barely walk up the stairs to the changing rooms after training, it felt like an elephant was on my back! So suffice to say, im pretty happy with what i'm doing at the minute.
There are some slight changes to the way I am doing some of the exercises now though, shown below: (metallica's new song is on, damn good...sry)
Bench - I am now pausing at the bottom of every rep on my barbell bench days. This is because it is how it's done in powerlifting (my future hobby, lol), and also because it removes the elasticity in your muscles and therefore makes you actually use your muscle more. This has brought my weight down a bit, but I think the rewards I will reap from this change are going to be worth it.
Deadlift - For a while now I have been doing my deadlifts whilst standing on plates, because it makes you go deeper and will help with the first part of your pull. But this is'nt the change I am talking about. I am now resting the bar between each rep instead of letting it just touch the floor. Again this takes the elasticity out of the muscles and makes it much harder. Usually I would struggle to make my first rep with a high weight but could always do a few more because its alot easier to spring up and down than it is to just lift it from dead.
I am seriously losing faith in my course, I actually think it's a bit of a joke. People who have no idea about training are about to be spoon fed their test, and therefore become gym instructors without having a clue what they are talking about. I have noticed that we aren't really being taught much about actually training people, this course is just teaching us to make one programme for our test and thats it. Anyways I actually found some strength and conditioning courses, click here to see, and they are actually held in Jordanstown University. This is a course for me to do after my PT course, hopefully around Jan 2010.
Just recieved my first 2 training books in the post, may not post for a while because I will be reading instead of writing. :)
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to make a link write 'click here'
then use the url button next to bold , itallic etc to add url so that when you hit click me you go to that page
make sense ?
friend of mine recently did the fitness instructor course
4 people on the course and in a 2 weekend course 2 of them missed the first week and only made it to the second of the two weekends
everyone passed
so know we have guys with 2 days experience coming out to help people who may have injuries / heart conditions etc etc
the industry is fucked
Ill try it now, seems straightforward though *cough* geek.
Yeh, I dont think my course is teaching enough either. Missing a week would'nt make much of a difference. Its pretty much up to the person to research ad read what they can themselves to learn alot of the basics
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