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      11-09-2008, 03:30 AM   #23
clark192
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In addition to most of the good advice, I would suggest doing some more compound exercises. If your goal is to improve your PT scores, you need to realize that your muscles work in tandem with one another. Large, complex motions will help out overall. I usually throw in something like this into my routine, maybe once or twice a week:

Grab a straight bar and throw on around 50lbs, then place on the floor in front of you and do the following routine one complete motion after the other, no rest:

1) 1 deadlift (up to your knees and back to the floor)
2) 1 bent over row (lift again from the floor, do bent over row and return to starting position for the row)
3) clean (jerk? snatch? can never remember the term) the bar to your chest
4) do a front squat. same as a normal squat, but with the bar resting across your chest
5) press the bar over your head, and down behind your head on your shoulders
6) do a normal squat
7) step forward and do a lunge, one for each leg.
8) then do reverse lunges, one for each leg.
9) press again over your head, and then you are finished.

Do like 3 sets of this, and you should be pretty exhausted afterwards. I like it becuase, again, while its fun to develop individual muscles, its good to work everything together and do really large compound exercises.
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