Back

Today's back workout comes a day earlier than normal, due to tickets to the Detroit Auto Show tomorrow. One thing that we learned is that the day between arms and back is critical, since our arm fatigue is getting in the way of doing some of the back work (most noticeably the pull-ups). We had been ditching the deadlifting since it was a compound move that didn't seem to engage what we were wanting, but Matt says that he's missing it, so moving forward, we'll do some very light deadlifting as a warm-up set at the beginning. We didn't like doing the set of DB shrugs aimed at the middle back - too awkward and didn't seem to be hitting anything useful. We'll take those out in the future and replace them with the tried-and-true bent-over barbell rows.

Without further ado, today's numbers:

Saturday, January 19, 2008 - Back

Exercise	Cory	Matt
Wide assisted pull-up (M)	60 x 10 : 90 x 10 x 2	90 x 10 x 2 : 105 x 9
Close assisted pull-up (M)	105 x 10 x 3	105 x 10 x 3
Shoulder press (M)	90 x 10 x 2 : 50 x 10	50 x 12 x 3
Lateral raise (M)	90 x 10 x 2 : 50 x 10	50 x 10 x 3
Bent-over DB row (F)	60 x 10 : 100 x 10 x 2	45 x 12 x 2 : 50 x 10
Middle back DB shrug (F)	80 x 10	80 x 10
Rack shrug (F)	180 x 15 x 3	180 x 10 x 3