Now some of you may think I have been replaced with an alien pod person because there are no squats or deadlifts in my New Year's Day workout. I must admit I feel kind of dirty, and this is obviously not the way to propitiously start the new year. I can only hope that I haven't irreparably torn the space/time continuum.
And now for your reading pleasure, a Zen Mojo workout totally devoid of squats and deadlifts:
15 minutes of warmup and upper body activation
This workout started out with a Power phase as the first exercise. Sometimes I work power exercises directly in with the primary Strength exercises (such as a set of Bench immediately followed by Medicine Ball Slams or Plyo/Acceleration Presses of some type or Squats immediately followed by Box Jumps). However today, we start with a straight Power exercise before we do our primary Strength lift. I'm using Power Cleans to a Push Press (Olympic Lifts are great here - I could have done a straight Clean and Jerk or Snatch).
Power Clean/Push Press
1 x 5 95 lbs
1 x 3 115 lbs
1 x 3 135 lbs
1 x ? 155 lbs (pulled the Clean twice but failed on the press)
1 x 3 145 lbs (since I missed at 155)
Next I went into 4 rounds of Bench Press - immediately followed by Inverted Rows - immediately followed by Russian Twists (2 minutes rest between rounds)
Bench Press
Round 1 1 x 5 135 lbs
Round 2 1 x 5 155 lbs
Round 3 1 x 5 175 lbs
Round 4 1 x 1 195 lbs (form was gone by this round so I only put up 1 rep and racked the bar)
Suspension Inverted Rows (feet elevated)
Round 1 1 x 8 Bodyweight
Round 2 1 x 6 Bodyweight + 50 lbs vest
Round 3 1 x 4 Bodyweight + 50 lbs vest
Round 4 1 x 4 Bodyweight + 50 lbs vest
Seated Russian Twists
Round 1 1 x 20 25 lbs
Round 2 1 x 20 25 lbs
Round 3 1 x 20 25 lbs
Round 4 1 x 20 25 lbs
Then I finished up with a complex where the bar is loaded (45 lbs plate) on one end and the other end of the bar is shoved into a corner or backstop consisting of 2 x 10 (on each side/arm) of :
Landmines
Single Arm Presses
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