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I just tried out parallel grip upright shoulder presses - woooh.. wow. I wasn't sure about it until I tried 50's - not hard to pick up and carry around but damn hard to press on.. so I scaled it back to 35's and was able to keep a good form and do four sets of eight. Yeah a whole new range of motion from the usual sit down row (and vertical row). Me likey.

Taking some advice from TwinMuscleWorkout I am going to plateau my weight increases for a bit and increase sets. So the new routine is upright row at 290, four sets of eight - shooting for five sets. Vertical row is now 100lb, four sets of ten.. sled press - the usual five plates a side for four sets (shooting for five).. and this is a real piece of advice from TMW - push with the heel. Calf raises at 300lbs for four sets shooting for five.. and a mile and a half cardio run/jog/walk (at an incline).

I have to say my traps are getting some bulk. Yeppie for results!

290 on the low row was better.
300 on the calf raises for four sets of 15.
Cable twists at 47.5lb. Three sets of 10.
Five plates a side for sled press... four sets of fifteen.
new exercise with an up right row. Gett'n my form down with 70lb got three sets of ten. Yeah that will be bumped up by a lot. Probably flip to a bar and weights verses the cable machine.
Cardio was ten minutes on the bike with thirty minutes on the treadmill.

Good stuff.

I finally hit 290 on the up right row! The first set was easy.. the second and third my body caught on to the ruse - my cunning attempt to trick it - and started to protest. What evs.. It wasn't that long ago when I was sub 100lb...

point to me!