No Shoulder to cry on

Thursday finds me back in Big K.I.G's home gym.



The event?



Shoulder work (with arms tossed in the mix).



Shoulder...Big K's best bodypart..I'm thinking..this'll be a hard session.I'd better try to keep up.



Exercise 1:



Lateral raises.Big K grumbles..expecting that i'd do a pressing movement first.. but i'm no idiot... pre-exhaustion should reduce his poundages some..besides.. i get better development from pressing last anyway.



4 sets later... my shoulders are biitching... ironically.. so is Big K ...LOL!



Exercise 2:



Bent-Lateral raises.



Big K claims he's never done these..so we start light



set 1: 30 pound dumbells ..rep till failure

set 2: 40 pounders.. rep til failure

set 3: Big K stays at set 2's weight... i jump up to the 60's... "You gonna do THAT?" he exclaims



"HELL YEA!!!"



set 4: 60's...40's...20's drop set



"NOW we can press Kev"



He's pretty sapped now.. and wants to do a dumbell press with backsupporting bench.. NAH.. can't work.



I call next movement:



Barbell press infront...on a flat bench... i.e. no back support.



Set 1: 50 pounds rep till failure

set 2: 100 pounds rep till failure

set 3: 150 pounds..drop set

set 4: repeat of set 3



I chose this exercise because although using a bench with back suport allows one to move more weight.. it negates the involvement of supporting muscles (spinal recetors.. etc).. ultimately weakening them.



It was evident that big K uses back support all the time cus he was rocking and swaying under the poundage.



Editor's note:



*Highlight of the training session was Big K's mum handing him weight; a dumbell he couldn't lift..Go mama go! Methinks i should train with her*



Next movement:

I'm pretty spent shoulder-wise .. but Big K is adamant that he wants to do dumbell shoulder presses so 4 sets of that was the order of the day.



Shoulders finished.. we move on to ARMS!!!



Trying to keep things brief... workouts under an hour.. arms'll be simple



Biceps:

Pass off curls

&

Seated dumbell Curls



Triceps:

Over head (EZ-curl bar) tricep extension

&

Close Grip Bench press



(Big K also does a tricep press down)



Pumped.. Big K challenges me to a pose down... and i whup his ASS!!!!







and you can tell him I SAID THAT



~Nark