I started off todays workout with wide lat pull downs. I love these at the beginning of a workout because they really help to engage and 'wake up' your back muscles; reminding your body to use them again. I kept my reps fairly high (for me) at 13-15 for 4 sets. Really focused my mind on contracting and squeezing my lats through every rep.
I then moved onto pull ups; as I have said before I always do these near the beginning of my workout for energy reasons. I hit a PR with these today as I did more reps in the first 5 of my sets! My last set (set 6) was made up of only 2 reps as by this point I was exhausted! Pull ups really get my heart rate soaring and you can really feel them activating your upper abdominal muscles.
I continued with the rest of my workout and then finished off with some prone DB flys (for rear delts). I like to hit rear delts on back day sometimes as they are involved in the 'pulling' actions of back day and I plan on hitting shoulders tomorrow so I didn't want to work the rear delts 2 days in a row. I did 4 sets of these until failure.
After back, I moved onto some bicep work. Started with BB curls (normal grip) and PR'd! I was able to increase the weight AND reps! Don't know where that strength came from but anyway.
After these I then hit the biceps from a variation of angles (this helps to develop the muscle) with several types of DB and BB curls.
Have a great workout!
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