It was arm day, so I expected we would be doing some curls. What I didn’t expect was how we’d do them. As I’ve mentioned before, Rob’s technique involves power + endurance. How does this technique transition to curls?
He uses the bench bar! Yeah, no dumbbells or curl bars. I thought the man was crazy. He took down the squat bar and put 25-pound weight on each side. I did some quick math –– 95 pounds.
Are you kidding me?! - He wasn’t.
We started with one set of 10 reps wide-grip and then 10 reps close-grip. We did this twice and then added weight. The cycle continued for five circuits until my arms were Jell-O.
I’m pretty sure he lifted 90 percent of my final two sets. That didn’t bother me because I really felt stronger and more confident just seeing myself move that much weight. We finished at 135 pounds.
Oh, and did I mention we had to wear a weight belt for the curls? Haha. I’ve definitely never done that before. That was only the start of our workout, and it didn’t get any easier. But hey, it’s not supposed to be easy.
The moral here is, just because something seems impossible at first doesn’t mean you can’t achieve it. Sometimes you just have to let it happen.
Here’s a little quote about confidence: “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” –– W.C. Fields
A SIDE NOTE: A co-worker asked me the other day how much weight I had lost. I thought, Maybe I should share this with my readers, so... 35 pounds since March, and 20 pounds since I’ve been writing this blog.
I’m going to have Mike take some photos, and I’ll unveil the first before and after photo in a post sometime next week.
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