I'm cranking along at about 2400 to 2500 calories these days, and to be honest, I've got infinitely more endurance than when I was in the 2000 and below range. What that means is that my ability to do super and compound sets has climbed. Astonishing what just a few more calories can do.
This really showed in today's legs workout where I actually increased over two exercises combinations and some of the initial exercises seemed (shock) easy. I did this one on my own today. Here's the workout. I report all maxima in lbs.; each super/compound set was repeated 4 times with 15 reps per exercise. That comes to an astounding 600 reps in about one hour fifteen minutes. A killer endurance workout.
- single leg cybex leg press/ hip adductor: 150/ 135. The highest I've gone on the cybex is 160.
- Nautilus hip extension/ hip abductor: 230/ 210.
- Stiff legged deadlift/ Hammer prone curl: 120/ 60. This is a compound set, hitting the hamstring differently each time. I really collapsed on this combination as the exercises wore on.
- Cybex quad extension/ seated curl: 190/ 130. My hamstrings still hurt.
- Calf extensions on the hammer hack squat/ seated calf (3 sets of 20 reps): 120/ 180.
I still can't fathom getting as low as 2400 cals, let alone 2000 :)
Posted by: Scott | April 06, 2006 at 02:36