Seems like a good routine. One question about doing several exercises in succession, isn't that going to be a problem with COPD? Measured breathing and short rests seems like it would be better. But, you're the expert not me.
I have a routine where the rest time is really short, like not more than 30 seconds between sets. It's just enough for me to be able to calm my breathing. There are a couple of exercises where I need a minute or two, those being leg presses and squats with added weight I can pretty much do squats with very little rest between sets when it's just me I'm pushing up.
Not so funny story about push ups. Many years ago I was on a body-weight only exercise routine. When push ups became too easy, I decided to do them with three chairs, one to put my feet on and one for each hand. My idea was to go deep and get a good stretch. I ended up doing something to my left hand. It blew up like a balloon and hurt so bad that I was cussing out loud all the way to the hospital. By the time I got to emergency, my hand was so hot I thought it was going to spontaneously combust if something wasn't done quick. If I remember correctly, the folks in emergency didn't seem to know what to do. I think they injected cortisone into my hand and sent me home. The next morning my hand looked skeletal like the inflammation had burned off what little meat there is on someone's hands. In a couple of days, the hand was back to normal.
Doing anything physical with Stage 4 COPD is a problem. {To any assholes here that insist I want your sympathy as my malady was self inflicted, as if I ever claimed otherwise, you can suck my ass..........you know who you are.........the board assholes.}
Now that I have that out of my system.
As a general rule when I trained, I trained using what Vince Gironda called the "Intensity Factor.".......or some other stupid shit.... I forget.
My credo was very brief rest periods going as heavy as possible for the rep goal I had set in my mind, whether that be 6 reps or 20 reps...........didn`t matter.
For example if you and I were both genetically alike, same age, same strength level, same diet, etc etc,............and we both did the exact same workout routine using the exact same poundages, but it took you 2 hours to complete the training session, and it only took me 45 minutes to complete it, that means that even though we did EXACTLY the same thing I trained much harder cuz I did mine in a shorter amount of time....................
Vinces Intensity Factor".....or whatever the fuck he dubbed it LOL
Most amount of work done in the shortest amount of time = INTENSITY....of course other variables can come into play.
Nowadays I will not perform my next set until my breathing has returned to normal.....no matter how long that may take as I could possibly have a coronary.......who knows at my age with my present maladies.
I will still give training my all, it will just have to be adjusted to my present physical ability, and my hopefully increasing level of fitness once I get training underway.
I will not lollygag between sets, but I wont race like I used to as I dont see myself prancing around on stage in a pair of panties any time soon.........or anytime at all for that matter.
So I`m just doing this solely for me...........no other reason.......just as it should be anyway.
I just want to improve...... so I will train as hard as my body ALLOWS me to.............I`ll push myself but I will err on the side of caution.
In essence I never rested much more than a minute or so ...............longer between sets of leg work of course because the oxygen debt would be higher.
Just a tad before my breathing returned to normal, is when I would start my next set...............not when I caught my breath, but JUST BEFORE I caught it...........except on legs usually.
Back in the day I would do Super-Sets or Tri-Sets or Giant-Sets, or Triple Drop-Sets,etc ,etc. in an effort to make my training more intense......I would LITERALLY run from exercise to exercise at times jumping over benches to get to my next station..............no rest was my mantra.
I didn`t give two fucks if people thought I was nuts I had a goal in mind and I did what I felt it took to reach that goal or even surpass it.
I was never HUGE but have been told about a million times in the gym, from complete strangers usually, that I was a fucking animal or trained like an uncaged beast.
All part and parcel for me as I loved training balls to the wall. and would never let anyone outdo me if I could help it.
Ever hear of Nancy Kerrigan.........well I taught Nancy all she knew. LOL
My intensity level will be there as always, but it will just be toned down for safteys sake.
