This relatively-short (51-minute) program was, to put it mildly, a killer. I started off just fine -- I did a set of wide grip pull-ups, lawnmowers, and the "Twenty-One" bicep curls without any problem -- and then I just fell off a cliff.
Here's the list of medieval tortures to which I was subjected this morning:
- Wide Grip Pull-Ups
- Lawnmowers
- Twenty-Ones
- One-Arm Cross-Body Curls
- Switch Grip Pull-Ups
- Elbows-Out Lawnmowers
- Standing Bicep Curls
- One-Arm Concentration Curls
- Corn Cob Pull-Ups (see below for a video clip of this obscenity)
- Reverse Grip Bent Over Rows
- Open-Arm Curls
- Static-Arm Curls
- Towel Pull-Ups
- Congdon Locomotives
- Crouching Cohen Curls
- One-Arm Corkscrew Curls
- Chin-Ups
- Seated Bent-Over Back Flys
- Curl-Up/Hammer-Downs
- Hammer Curls
- Max Rep Pull-Ups
- Supermans (Supermen?)
- In-Out Hammer Curls
- Strip-Set Curls
I started off with fairly heavy weights, but towards the end of the workout, I was astonished by the fact that I could barely manage to do curls with light (15 to 20 pound) dumbbells. And an hour and a half after finishing this workout, I still shudder at the thought of Corn Cob Pull-Ups.
Shockingly, by the time Ab Ripper X started, I actually let out a sigh of relief.
