Sunday 17 May 2009

Body By Science Big 5 Workout

Seated Row
Chest Press
Pulldown
Overhead Press
Leg Press

Big 5 Workouts: from workout diary

The Body by Science approach is also documented on its website and youtube channel.

Broadly, it recommends that your strength training consist solely of a single, all-body session, once a week, in which you do a single set of each exercise. The exercises (about 5 of them) should be compound exercises that hit the major muscle groups.

It is also important that you take each exercise to absolute failure over a 1-2 minute period, measuring progress according to increasing the TUL (Time Under Load) for a given weight.

There is also some good insight from a couple of interviews with Doug McGuff, co-author, on Conditioning Research (here and here.)

Here are the exercises being performed by the man himself:
Leg Press
Seated Row
Chest Press
Pulldown
Overhead Press


Seated Row
Chest Press
Pulldown
Overhead Press
Leg Press

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