Where it all began

Tuesday’s workout was back to the original two, me and Alex (aka Cliff) and today we blasted chest and arms.

Recently we started doing a Monday, Wednesday, Friday three day spilt, but because I lost a long time friend Vinny Greco, the once owner of Powerhouse gym in Watertown, I had to say my goodbyes to him on Monday, so this week it’s Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. 

When I started competing in bodybuilding at the age of 20, Vinny was the man who taught me how to pose. In fact, we use to go into his gym before it was a gym, when it was a warehouse in the making of a gym, lean a mirror against the wall and put together a routine, which won me best poser a couple of times. There hasn’t been a gym since that is even close to Vinny’s gym. The atmosphere was all about training hard and getting big. He didn’t care if you dropped your weights or used chalk for your grip or made loud noises because you were giving it all you got. That is what training is all about, as the saying goes, intensity for immensity and sickness for thickness, you can’t think like this with out making noise or dropping a heavy weights now and again. Vinny you will be missed, rest in peace!

The damage starts with three dips to failure, oh by the way, we don’t usually count our reps, and instead we go by feel and to failure. I like to keep the reps around 10, sometime under and sometime over, it all depends on the exercise. If you feel you need more reps to get the feeling you’re looking for, lower the weight and increase the weight, if you’re getting too many reps.

From Dips to incline barbell bench, to flat dumbbell presses, ending on incline dumbbell flies. We did four movements for chest.

Triceps started with french curls, leaning on a preacher curl machine, to skull crushers lying on a bench, ending on standing triceps pushdown.

Biceps started with incline dumbbell curls, to straight bar preacher curls, to a machine where we did reverse curls to end the biceps and start the forearms, we ended up on the end of a flat bench where we did reverse wrist curls superset into regular wrist curls… these give you such a forearms burn, something’s it’s mind boggling

Legs on Thursday, until then…

Time for a protein drink!