Training Log: Shapes That Go Together
- Day 12
Filed Under (Training) by admin on 23-02-2010
Tagged Under : Alexandre Bilodeau, Shapes That Go Together, Shoulder Workout
TODAY’S TRAINING INSPIRATION:
ALEXANDRE BILODEAU
Today’s Colin Timberlake Training Inspiration is a man who, last week, won the men’s moguls event at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and in doing so became the first Canadian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal on Canadian soil.
Much ado had been made about Canada’s failure to capture a gold medal in either of its two previous stints as Olympic host, and there was no shortage of pressure on the home athletes to win a gold and end the drought that had afflicted the country.
Decades of suffering for sports fans came to a halt when Alexandre Bilodeau defeated prohibitive favorite (and anti-Canadian) Dale Begg-Smith and, in his second Olympic appearance (he was 11th in 2006) saw years of hard work come to glorious fruition.
A particularly compelling aspect of Bilodeau’s story is how he credits his older brother Frederic as his inspiration in training and in life. Frederic suffers from severe cerebral palsy that limits his mobility and his speech. However, the manner in which Frederic approaches life drove Alexandre to strive to push his own limits and when the gold medal was won, nobody was more ecstatic than big brother Frederic in the stands nearby.
TODAY: SHOULDERS (Fast Tempo, 90 Second Rests)
ARNOLD DUMBBELL PRESS (5 sets)
35 x 10
35 x 10
50 x 6
50 x 5
50 x 5
DUMBBELL SHOULDER PRESS (3 sets)
50 x 6
50 x 8
50 x 6
DUMBBELL LATERAL RAISE (3 sets)
35 x 5
35 x 5
35 x 5
HANGING BENT LEG RAISES (5 sets)
x 12
x 12
x 12
x 12
x 12
HANGING BENT LEG OBLIQUE RAISES (5 sets)
x 15
x 12
x 12
x 12
x 12
STATIONARY BIKE
- Resistance 15/25
15 Minutes / 6.05 Miles / 245 Cal
- 3.95 Miles / 159 Cal at 10 Minute Mark
TRAINING NOTES
Total Sets (Shoulders): 11
Total Sets (Abs): 10
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