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  Biceps day. Glad to be making arms now a regular thing. Having trained them only  a dozen or so times, over the last 10ish years. Now I'm training them on average about once every 10days.  Hopefully all the compound work I've done over the years, has worked them indirectly so they are not too far behind, but deffo need to make up for lost time. Opened up the workout with some prone banded curls. It took a little while to find my sweet spot regards the weight to be used, but settled on 150lb. Did three working Sets (heavy duty style). The pump of that was amazeballs. I could have even left the workout there, as my arms were all kinds of messed up. But I couldn't resist my fave arms movement - Preacher curls. I warmed up one set, on 12kg for 10reps per arm, before doing two working Sets on 18kg dumbells. The second set I went for 8reps per arm, forcing through with my spare hand, any reps I couldn't do. I made a point of adding a twist to each rep also. To work the pron...

 I'm quite proud of this back workout, I started off with deadlift.... and failed completely to achieve what I wanted. But I'm proud with myself for not giving up. I was hoping to do a few sets of 3reps on 200-220kg, but only just managed the same on 180kg. It may not sound like much, but from my perspective at the time it was terrible.  I tried several times to pull 200kg and it wasn't coming, and to add insult to injury, when I dropped back down to 180kg I only managed a single! Bombing out is always hard to handle. Especially as this has been the story of my deadlift for such a long time now. Only 2 years ago I did 20reps on 200kg in a single set! Perhaps now you can understand why I was upset - especially as I have no real answer, as to why? Yes I'm 30lb lighter than then - but I haven't lost any real strength on any other lift, so why just deadlifts? I walked out, angry and disappointed in myself, feeling like I'd been banging my head on a wall that just wo...

  Today's workout was biceps, which still remains a relatively novel thing for me, having gone the last ten or so years with probs a dozen arms workouts only to count. But becoming a regular occurance now, since I went back to training like a Bodybuilding roughly 6 months back. I still need to try and train arms a wee bit more regularly, but I'm averaging a workout once about every 2 weeks, so infinitely more than before when I was still powerlifting. Today my triceps are very much aching, from my shoulders workout 2 days ago, so just biceps today. Normally I like to open up with a heavier free weight based routine, such as EZ or olympic curls. Followed by preachers, but today I wanted to mix things up a bit. Variety is the spice of life. So I did some banded curls instead. This was a bit of an improvised routine as I don't have cables in my gym. But I love the feel of bands on movements like this. They dig in real deep into the muscle, and the pump is insane. I had no idea...