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I've realised I'm not going to have time to head down to my gym tonight (it's not close enough) but I don't want to miss a session so am going to try and squeeze in 30/40 mins using what I have at home - the problem is I don't have a lot of weight so I am looking for ideas to make what I have heavier/harder to work with.
So here's what I have in terms of equipment:
- Bench
- Squat rack (the bench poles rise up)
- Dumbbells
- 7' Barbell
- ezybar
- about 80kg total in weights
I'm looking for replacements, or harder versions mainly for squat and deadlift - the weights should be fine for the other excersises. My other option is simply to do high reps and use this opportunity to get some strength endurance in but I'm still interested in ideas in case I can use them another time.
try this
50kg on bar start at 7 reps all the way through on each movememt. no break then rest when 7 reps for each movement is done then start again ladder style 6,5,4,3,2,1 that 50kg will become heavy
BB Row
Hang clean
Military press
Front squat
Deadlift
Back sqaut
Do lunges before squats, do SLDL before regular deadlifts, or good mornings before regular deadlifts, side laterals before MP, flyes before bench press, one arm rows rather than 2.
Cut the rest period to 30 seconds.
Make the squats pause squats, sit in the bottom for a count of 3.
Next to your post you'll see a set of scales. Click on those and you can add or subtract "reputation" to a user. That leads to that green square under your name - which could become a red square if enough people subtract reps.
You only gain or lose reps if the person adding or subtracting them has some themselves.
Seppo forums love that stuff, it fits into that whole high school popularity contest thing they have. I think we shouldn't have it at all.
Good idea but I think pistol squats would be working more the smaller muscles for balancing (not such a bad thing) but take away the ability to do heavier weights to work the quads and hamstring more. I'll only have a short time so looking to work the bigger muscles.