Showing posts with label partnered training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partnered training. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 May 2007

Partnered training

If anyone's in any doubt as to how much difference training with a partner makes, have a lot at these stats from my session last night with Andy - the numbers in brackets after the third set are the percentage improvement over my previous PB:

ExerciseWarmupSet 1Set 2Set 3
Smith Bench Press12×27kg12×47kg10×57kg8×62kg(+32%)
Dumbbell Arnold Press12×5kg12×7kg10×9kg8×12kg(+33%)
Decline Skullcrusher12×15kg12×25kg10×30kg8×35kg (+113%)
Chin-up
555
Incline Crunch
202530


As you can tell, we really pushed ourselves, and each other. His exercise log shows a similarly impressive improvement.
Tonight, we're going to pummel our legs. Tomorrow I suspect will be a day of rest - I probably won't even be able to climb stairs.

Update: After some discussion, I'm going to count the smith machine bar as 7kg, not 18. Though means my lifts aren't as impressive, it means my gains are more so, so it's all good.