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Originally Posted by PeteSB75
Actually, I'm a bit surprised that more people don't do it. Only makes sense, spend all that time strengthening your muscles and so little strengthening your tendons and ligaments. Probably prevent a lot of injuries as well as improving most of your lifts.
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That's what I'm thinking ... despite what the manliest men in the thread think.
Had another big PR day. It was just bis and tris today. Started out with overhead rope extensions up to 130 and one-arm press-downs to 50 as a warmup and what I thought was the first chunk of my triceps workout. Followed up with tate presses to 45 x 7, 6, 5. Couldn't go as heavy as usual b/c my left front delt was a little sore from yesterday's lifts and yoga. Moved onto bis: HammerStrength preachers @ 60 x 8,8,7; db hammers @ 30 (those were supersetted w/ the preachers); straight bar curls 75 x 6,8,6; cable cambered curls @ 100 x 10,10,9.
I thought I was done here. But I realized that I still had some energy and kind of wondered what some tri exercises would be like after having warmed up a lot. So I put a straight bar on one cable and a rope on the other and began supersetting pressdowns (starting at 150) and overhead extensions (at 120). Well ... 150 was too easy; so I tried 170 and kicked out 8 -- a PR on reps. Then I set it at 180 and kicked out 4, another PR. 190? Sure -- for 3! 200 (the full stack)? You betcha! Kicked that out for 3, too.
