My typical BACK-WORKOUT

Hi guys, also today I want to take you on a workout. After I have already shown
you how I train legs and chest in the gym, today it’s the turn of the back. Be
curious and learn with me how you can make your workout particularly effective
and efficient.

Warm-Up

As usual, I warm up with 10 minutes of cardio before I start the exercises.
We train very early in the morning today, because we still have a lot on the
agenda. In addition, this is also great for the body, because your body will burn
more calories throughout the day. So I can only advise you!

ABS – Sixpack Workout

Since we are still in Mallorca and the weather is good today, I will show you my
typical ABS exercises in the outdoor area of the gym. First we start with some leg
raises. To do this, I hang onto the scaffolding and move my legs up and down
again and again. Here I try to get up and then very straight down. But if it is too
hard for you as a beginner you can just move up your knees to the level of the
belly button. Here you do not necessarily have to count the repetitions because
we only work with your own body weight. Here the motto is: The more the more
effective. But do not overdo it, because we are just starting the workout and still
need power for the other exercises.
Alternatively, you can also grab a mat and lie on your back, stretch your legs to
the sky and also now perform the same up and down motion. It’s more
strenuous with your legs stretched out than with them bent. Depending on the
difficulty level, you can choose between the two variations.
After I finish with the hanging leg raises I continue with sit-ups, followed by lying
leg raises and Russian twists. Here Superset means: perform as many
repetitions as possible, because we also work here with all exercises as already
explained above, with our own body weight.


ABS Workout (4 Sets):
hanging leg raises (super set)
sit ups (super set)

lying leg raises (super set)
russian twist (super set)


I love activating my abs before a workout because I’m already focused and can
target the body part I want even better. I used to do my ABS workout at the end
but then I couldn’t concentrate on the muscles so the order I show you today is
the most effective for me. To achieve a similar form as me, I can only give you
the way to do more and more repetitions, instead of increasing the weight.


Following my four exercises, I do planks. First straight and then sideways. The
point is to keep the body in the same position as long as possible. During the
exercise, the butt must be at the same height as the back the whole time,
otherwise you will sag and not be able to effectively use your muscles. I always
hold for 2.5 minutes for the regular planks and 30 seconds for the lateral ones.
The good thing is that through the exercise we have now already warmed up the
shoulders, which we also need for the back workout.

Back Workout

Now I go back in and start
my back workout with some lat pulls on the machine. When I do back workouts I
am not very stuck in my routine. Sometimes I also start with some chin ups and
pull ups.

warm up Set: less weight (10-12 reps)
first set: 83 kg (less reps)
second set: 83 kg (less reps)
third set: less weight (many reps)

For my lat pull I use a wide bar. Here it is important to be very upright and not
move your back too much. Again, I follow the pyramid principle of weight
distribution and start with little weight which I then increase. At the end, as
always, I do another set with little weight to once again push my muscle as hard
as I can. But you already know that.
Here, it’s super important to make sure your elbows don’t stop in the front when
you go to the back. They must always be positioned at the back. This will allow
you to better target the upper lat, because afterwards we will do very tight lats
to target the other muscle groups. So it’s important to target the upper lat here
to get the full range of motion.

As just announced, we now change the grip on the cable pull to do lats in a
tighter grip. Here we also did two sets with 83 kg in 5 repetitions. We left out the
warm-up set with a few weights because we did both exercises directly after
each other. After that we did a drop set where we went down to 59 kg and as the
last set we did many repetitions (12 to 15 pieces) with little weight.
In general, with all exercises it is important to focus and concentrate and rather
take less weight and have the right execution.

Next, we do the Arrow exercise. Unfortunately, you can’t always do this, because
the machine for it is not available in all gyms. But when I have the opportunity I
always do the exercise because here you can hit the muscles particularly well.
For the right positioning you have to lean back a little bit on the machine.
Another tip is to always include a few concentrate pushes here, i.e. to exhaust
each side individually.

Next, I do wide pulls. Here I do each arm individually. To get the perfect position
on the machine, I lower the seat a bit so I can really pull the weight back. Try to
move your elbow up here and straight back.
warm Up Set:

less weight (12 – 15 reps)
first set: 50 kg (less reps)
second set: 50 kg (less reps)
third set: less weight (many reps)

After that I do deadlifts. But not real deadlifts, because I try to concentrate more
on my lower back. For this I use the barbell. Here it is especially important that
you don’t bend your knees too much, but just a little bit.

first set: 80 kg (12 reps)
second set: 100 kg (8 reps)
third set: 100 kg (8 reps)
fourth set: 110 kg (6 reps)
fifth set: 60 kg (12 – 15 reps)

After that, I train my back shoulders. Here I try to sit quite high on the machine.
It is important that the arm is in line with the shoulder. As with the previous
exercise, you should also lean back a little. It is also important to avoid curling
your neck like a turtle. To prevent this from happening you can turn your elbows
upwards.

first set: much weight (less reps)
second set: much weight (less reps)
third set: less weight (many reps)

As a last exercise we train our biceps and neck with the dumbbells.

first set: much weight (less reps)
second set: much weight (less reps)
third set: less weight (many reps)


That’s it guys. I hope you like my routine and you can include some in yours. See
you soon !

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My Fitness Routine – by fabianxarnold

Welcome back for a new blog post. Finally I will write down my fitness routine many of you had asked for.

Before I start telling you more about my fitness routine I will speak about my goal in fitness. That’s the most important thing. Without to know your goal you can’t work out the right way.

 

What is my goal in fitness?!

My goal in fitness is not to become bigger! Because of modelling I have to stay slim and shredded. If I become too big I would be a fitness model and wouldn’t get work as a fashion model. Because I’ve been working out since 6 years I have enough muscles and don’t need to gain more. So basically I will just stay as I am but more shredded. 

How do I achieve my goal?

The easiest way for that is to count calories. I always try to stay in a daily calorie deficit. That means I burn more calories than I eat/drink.

Example: 3500 cal burned – 2700 cal food/drinks = 800 cal deficite

How do I count the calories I burn?

There are two ways your body can burn calories: Active and Passive.

Active means you do sport or work out. So your body will burn the calories because you are moving. I count those calories with my Smartwatch.

Passive means the calories that your body needs to keep your body alive, for example as energy for your heart, brain and so on. Every day is very similar. You can track that with your Smartwatch or you can calculate it online. Unfortunately I didn’t find a good calculator because they are all just using age, weight and height without using personal data like a smartwatch!

The total calories you burn today is the addition of active and passive calories.

Example: 2000 cal passive + 1400 cal active = 3400 cal total

How do I coun’t the calories I eat/drink?

There are many apps on your smartphone where eyou can track the food and drinks you have. I use “My Fitnesspal” and im really happy with that.

You can scan the barcode or type in whatever you eat or drink. It will show you the calories and also the makros (Carbs, Protein and Fat).

I will tell you more about what I eat and drink in the next blog post.

 

What is my workout plan?

To be honest I don’t have a proper plan right now that says I go on these days and those days are off. Because in modelling every day is different so I plan every week different. My goal is to burn 1400 Cal active and to move more than 10 km per day.

I try to do sport 5-6 times a week, 2 times I go for a run and 4 times to the gym. When I go for a run I try to get at least 9km.

My Gym Plan:

I normally do Push, Pull, Leg.

That means one day I train all the muscles I need to push (chest, shoulders and trizeps), on the other day I train all the muscles I need to pull (back, neck, bizeps) and on the last day I train legs.

I train Abs every 3 days for like 20 minutes (Sit-ups, Planks, …).

When someone ask me how many reps I do I just answer that I’m not counting my reps. I train until my muscles are burning.

 

1. Push-Day

Warm-Up-Run 5 min

Chest (4 exercises):

  • Benchpress Barbbell flat (5 sets)
  • Benchpress Dumbbell incline (3 sets)
  • Chestpress Machine decline (3 sets)
  • Flyings (4 sets)

Shoulders (3 exercises):

  • Shoulderpress (3 x Superset)
  • Shoulder Side raises (3 x Superset)
  • Battle Rope (5 x 30 sec on / 30 sec off)

Trizeps (1 exercise):

  • Cable Trizeps extension (4 sets)

 

2. Pull-Day

Warm-Up-Run 5 min

Back (5 exercises):

  • Lat-Pull wide (4 sets)
  • Lat-Pull close (3 sets)
  • Back-Row wide (4 sets)
  • Back-Row close (3 sets)
  • Lower Back (5 sets)

Neck (2 exercises):

  • Back-Shoulders-Raises (3x Superset)
  • Neck with Dumbbell (3x Superset)

Bizeps (1 exercise):

  • Bizeps-Curls (4 sets)

 

3. Leg-Day

Warm-Up-Run 10 min

  • Squats (5 sets)
  • Lunges (3 sets)
  • Leg extensions (3x Superset)
  • Leg curls (3x Superset)
  • Leg press (3 sets)
  • Calves (4 sets)

 

Its important to say: Everyone is different! Not only because you are working out like me, means you will look like me. Every body works different and also food is almost more important than the sport sessions.

My next blog post will be about my food routine.

I hope you liked this blog post?! If you have questions, feel free to ask me! I will answer everything and if you have suggestions on what to write in my next blog post, please tell me! 🙂

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Best regards

Fabian