Big Exercises for Big Gains
July 14, 2010 by Admin: Joe Hashey, CSCS
Filed under Football Strength Workouts, Strength Training, Unreal Strength Building
Ever only make it to the gym 3 days a week?
Sure, some of us have to work on a 3 day program due to schedule, work, family, etc. That doesn’t mean take it easy!
In fact this gives you a rare opportunity to train big lifts with more density during your workouts due to an extended recovery period. When we train with Jim Smith from the Diesel Crew it is time to get one of these dense and intense lifts in!
The conditioning put me on the floor for 20 minutes.
Unfortunately/fortunately we did our normal 4 day a week routine, then at the last minute decided to drive up and join Smitty for their Saturday lift. It was a great challenge, but normally a workout this dense would be part of a 3 day routine.
Exercises Performed
- Heavy log clean and press
- Axle bar dead lift
- Swiss bar bench with thick grips
- Stability Overhead Military Press
- INSANE conditioning
Muscles Targeted:
- Chest/triceps
- Shoulders
- Upper back/biceps
- Hamstrings
- Quads (reverse sled pull)
There were also some random pull ups and other exercises throughout.
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Now we are faced with the same dilemma. I need to keep my athletes on their summer workout program, but two of them are competing in World’s Strongest Athlete this weekend down at Defranco’s. Do we taper down our workouts to have a strong showing in the contest, sacrificing a week of training only 5 weeks out from football season?
Or do we crank it out as normal and let the cards fall where they may for the contest? The season is what is important, although this is a cool contest Joe D. puts on, so we went hard Monday and Tuesday, medium on Thursday, and just the primary lift on Friday.
Should be an awesome weekend!
- Joe Hashey, CSCS -
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I hate that problem Joe, you want to be recovered to perform better at some event but you have to remember what you were training for and what is most beneficial.
Hope you guys have fun at defranco’s.
Thanks Alex! You are smart keeping the big picture in mind!
Thanks for the best wishes, should be a blast!
Joe
Tail off for the comp and then start where you left off the following week. The guys shouldn’t loose any strength and they’ll be in great shape for the week ahead.
Just my opinion!
I’only have time for 1 more workout this week, making 2 so i’ll be doing the Diesel Crew full body in the video.
Keep up the good work Joe
nice joe !! are you going to be at the how to kick ass seminar
with zach this october in jersey ? i hope so, look forward to meeting you !!
house
I would taper back the volume a bit, the competition itself is going to be a killer training day for them anyways. Once you resume training again, should be good to go!
Keep killin’ it Joe!
-John Cortese
Thanks for the comment John! You’re right, hitting those 4 competitions as hard as possible will be a nice workout too!
Joe
Hey Michael! I’m not sure yet about New Jersey, should be a good seminar for sure though!
Joe
I agree in tapering the workout down because with the comp. ur guys will get to continue the hardcore work! Plus if anything they can crank out body weight movements, and then finish it with prehab work
Thanks for all the comments!
Joe
Keep Kickin’ Ass Joe! Your grip strength always amazes me.
Nice Work!
Thanks John! I hope all is well on LI!
Joe
awesome training video, joe. i’ve used a real axle once and man they are brutal!!