Ava Cowan and my training
This was inspirational picture for ARM training yesterday. Her name is Ava Cowan and she is a new up and coming figure pro, bet she’ll place 1st next year at Arnold or Olympia.
I trained Arms with James in Torquay yesterday and they are sore today, especially my triceps! See visualisation is the key! I am on this week 12/10/8 to help save and look after my central nervous system as the last 2 weeks training has tired me out a little. It was fun and we did incline supination curls, ez bar incline french press, machine preacher curls and overhead rope extensions, hanging knee raises to finish.
This afternoon I trained BACK with Dave in Paignton. I could really see my strength improve noticeably today. We started on wide grip chins and I had a least the first 2/3 on my own for 8/8/6 and then a little spot to keep me going. Machine deadlifts were next, 2 weeks ago I did 22.5kg for 3 reps a side and today I was able to do this for the 10 and 8th reps. Heavy neutral grip pulldowns 3 x 8 reps and then single arm rows with 17.5kg 3 x 8 reps. We did some crazy ab work, as I really want blocky abs!. V sits with a 5kg plate on the end of each feet, doing small movements as to not get the hip flexors involved and then lying crunches with feet up on the bench and a 5kg plate overhead. Can feel them now and my triceps.
Tonight is PUMP and then PUMP in the morning and then going to hit legs after with Becky. This week of the cycle can be called ‘downtime’ recovery and then next week, its either 120% negatives or 3 x 5 reps, we’ll see after I speak to SJ about this week and food etc.
Well done Jemma, today we did 4 sets of 5 reps chins (neutral grip) and the first 2 were clean for you, you shocked yourself and it was a great chest, back and bicep workout!