HAHAHAHA!!!!!
Well, I don't rightly know how funny it really is, but I can attest to truth that this style of training can be very difficult and satisfying. Tonight I did two warm up sets of pulldowns and then launched into my only working set of that exercise. I had my son assist me with negatives done in a drop set fashion until I reached a weight I was able to complete reps with by myself while resisting on the negative side of the lift.
I wanted to puke. I had to rest (I am almost as old as Wes!) and after laying there for awhile I got up and did my single working set of barbell rows to failure, followed by five reps done in rest/pause style, followed by a single set of shrugs done to failure. Again, I was beat.
Next up was a single negative/dropset run at the pec-dec followed instantly with upright machine bench presses, with each rep resisted on the negative side with the added stress of my son pushing against the "bar" on the way down. I dropped the weight a until I could complete five reps with negatives on my own.
That's it.
I have to say that I had an extra day of rest before hitting it today as I donated a double dose of red blood cells to the blood mobile yesterday and therefor had to skip a day.
I have not mentioned poundage because one, I am a wimp now in my dotage and two, it feels heavy to me so it is heavy for me.
I am going to continue with this method of training for at least a couple of months as I want to give it a chance to help me stay healthy and relatively well built and strong.