half human/half machine - downloading training data...

[Android]

Check out those legs! :shock:

So you find it really helps you stay focused on what you are doing?

Without a doubt, you can't help it happening to you once you drop one. If you take two and aren't used to it you'll think you're on something...serious.

[GreekAdonis]

Haha anything like the old bzp party pills?! They were good for a workout! :pfft:

Hey how do you find the b12 injections? Do they make a big difference to your appetite?

[Android]

Haha anything like the old bzp party pills?! They were good for a workout! :pfft:

Hey how do you find the b12 injections? Do they make a big difference to your appetite?

Funny you should say....try it (PM me and I'll send you a half a dozen pills to try yourself. Take 1 a few times, then do 2 :-)

BZP was way better except the come-down was hard.

B12 and appetite, not that I noticed.

I take one once I feel run down which is a bit late and they don't give me any WOW feeling either I just know I'm doing my body a favour...well I think I am it's kind of self-prescribed and I'm not a doctor (no really it's true!)

[GreekAdonis]

Oh right I always thought B12 injections were an appetite stimulator. Possibly you need to take them daily or at least a few times a week. I might do a bit more research into them.

[Android]

Today was Back.

I packed an extra shake today, 800gms of chicken cooked, and a tin of tuna. Also white rice which I measured!!!

Each day I cook 300gms (raw weight) of white rice. So at 80gms Carbs per 100gms raw that's 240gms carbs, or a few calories short of 1,000.

Also had 2 apples, and a banana, and oats all before 5pm workout.

Ohh and forgot to pack pre-workout stuff, so no Purple Wraath during the workout or NO drink, nothing but water.

Did lat pulldowns on 3/4 stack for 4 sets, then the stack for 1 set. I preferred the first 4 sets as I was really feeling it after 12-15 reps.

Next was a P.B for me....yeah another! It was the T-bar row. I did 40kg for 25+ reps and then 15 reps at 80kg, then 8 reps at 100kg....and 6 plates or 120kg I did 6 good reps on my own! Wow I was stoked.

The rest of the workout was good strict form across a variety of upper back exercises:

Single arm dumbbell rows with 30kg

A seated row machine with independent arms

Shrugs where you roll the shoulders back as you shrug. I've been doing straight up and down ones for years so did this for variety.

Barbell rows on same weight as shrugs

Felt like doing lower back but hyperextensions were used and wanted to give deadlifts a break. So note to self: do lower back next time with Hammies or something, maybe another Back workout this weekend at Miada...

Post-workout shake, 300gms of chicken and some kumara and potato an hour later. An hour later again a tuna salad.

Now....tuna and bedtime early tomorrow is rest day so I'm having a massage in the afternoon to loosen up things.

[Android]

Legs this afternoon, and Legs tomorrow :-)

Gonna do some shock treatment on them, wouldn't do this at all but will this one time and see if I can't hurt them good. Make them grow from shock.

Used to read about shock treatment in the old mags when you'd do arms every couple of hours during the day. The following week they were so sore you couldn't bend them and thought of cutting them off at the shoulder just to alleviate the pain!

yeah bit exaggerated but my point is, shock and awe...some!

Did 3 exercises for Legs today plus one for calves, will do another 3 tomorrow plus one for calves.

Leg Extensions, I did 100 reps in sets, 40, 25, 20, 15. After the first 40 I concentrated on squeezing more than repping hence why the reps dropped I didn't adjust the weight at all!

Then Leg Curls for 30, 25, 20, 20 reps

Then Leg press 5 plates each side 4 sets of 15-20 reps. This Leg Press is a different one to the usual, it's a different angle and weights swing off the side not up the top. The pressure on the muscle is hit at different parts of the motion so it's good for a change. I put my legs high and felt the hammies get worked on the first set real bad. They free'd up after that and I was able to work my Legs really well.

Calves were seated and non-eventful. Pain in the my outer sole but I could see my diamonds coming out nicely wish I had a camera will try and remember to take my iPhone for tomorrows Leg workout.

Pre-workout was PlasmaJet and Superpump250, and Purple Wraath and Cerebro during the workout. I needed 2 of them today was doing Legs by myself but still wanted to push boundaries of pain basically.

Am eating well, today I had 4 containers of meat and a big container of white rice, I had chicken for dinner and then more rice, and I have another chicken meal after writing this before bedtime.

I'm hovering between 106 and 107kg at the moment no big gains but trying to push myself in the gym. Tired as hell with a newborn baby crying at night...I need a holiday which is coming in 2 weeks thank goodness, the Ozzie Pro show!

I'm buying someone Aussie NO-Xplode aren't I? PM if it's you I forgot LOL :-)

[Android]

Legs again today, did them yesterday. Was a strange but fruitful workout...I think.

I didn't have ANY pre-workout supps, no intra-workout supps either (except H20). Thought I'd die but actually it was ok once I got into the workout.

The Legs didn't have the power in them of fresh Legs to start with I guess they thought "wtf is he doing to us".

Hack squats was sets of 15 - 20 with 30kg and then 50kg each side.

Leg Press machine where the plate moves a stack and not plates. Went down to the stack and used my hands on my knees to get the first couple of inches going, then got the rest of the weight up on just my Legs. Did 2 good sets of this and got out 15+ reps at the heaviest weight - sweet.

I then did calves, seated with 60kg on it, 5 sets of 15+ reps.

That was it, short and sweet over in 45 mins and I think, no I know I'll get pain over the weekend for doing this. It's what I'm living for...pain and punishment.

Ate well all day, slipped in a midday shake as planned too but just 800gms of chicken, I had tuna to take me up to 1kg meat before dinner but I didn't eat it.

Dinner was 300gms chicken with pasta, and supper is another 300gms chicken with rice.

[soundsgood]

I can understand doing low rep leg workouts on consecutive days, but high rep??? Damn your legs must be aching :pale:

[Gym rat]

Ouch your legs must be very sore Android it might be good idea to hire a zimmer frame or wheel chair just to be on the safe side of thinghs.

[1day]

wicked sweep on ur legs dude :clap:

umm so, were u just goin straight for nats this yr(using thames last yr as your qualifyer) or u doin CNIs too?

[Android]

can understand doing low rep leg workouts on consecutive days, but high rep??? Damn your legs must be aching :pale:

They are aching today like nothing on earth! Hammies, especially so. If it translates to growth great! If it doesn't ... well I tried :-) Am eating like a horse now and taking today off for REST.

Ouch your legs must be very sore Android it might be good idea to hire a zimmer frame or wheel chair just to be on the safe side of thinghs.

Will do thanks GymRat!

wicked sweep on ur legs dude :clap:

umm so, were u just goin straight for nats this yr(using thames last yr as your qualifyer) or u doin CNIs too?

Just the Nationals 1day, am qualified as you mentioned, I feel preparing for any other event would interfere with growth. I have a lot of flaws I need to address to look good symmetry-wise.

[soundsgood]

I think 1days trying to convince you to enter in the CNI's and qualify in the open division so he doesnt have to stand next to you at the nats :pfft:

[1day]

:oops: snaped!

:pfft:

[soundsgood]

:shifty: Dont worry bro, Im in that boat too :pfft:

[Android]

I think 1days trying to convince you to enter in the CNI's and qualify in the open division so he doesnt have to stand next to you at the nats :pfft:

Just checked them out, CNI is 26 Sept, a week before the Nats

I think I can make that happen, only hassle is the re-hydration / de-hydration and re-tan, other than that it's possible to do the CNIs :wink:

[soundsgood]

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[Android]

At the end of every month I review what I have worked out on.

On a day by day basis it's hard to gauge whether you've done yourself justice or not but looking at the month as a whole really tells you what areas you're hitting more frequently than others.

I guess if you already have a perfectly symmetrical body and have a structured routine (Day 1 do this, Day 2 do that, or...Monday always Legs, Tuesday always Arms etc) then this exercise is pointless.

I am still not symmetrical so choose to train instinctively, hitting areas I see as weak points harder and more frequently than areas that may over-power the rest of my look.

Every workout I do I enter it as a calendar event into my iPhone, so when I want to know what I should train next I just flick back thru the week and see what I haven't trained in a while...kind of.

Here is the frequency of training and more importantly the bodyparts trained in the last 4 weeks.

Starting on Jan 30...

Arms

Hammies & Calves

Back

Chest & Triceps

REST

Legs

Shoulders

REST

REST

Back

Legs

Arms

REST

Shoulders

Hammies & Calves

Upper Back

REST

Shoulders

Chest

REST

Quads

Triceps

Biceps & Calves

Back

REST

Legs & 1/2 Calves

Legs & 1/2 Calves

REST

Shoulders (today)

Looking over it now I can see I've hit Legs hard this month and layed off the Chest, perfect!

Shoulders and Back have had the standard 4 workouts a month.

The result of reviewing this and looking at myself in the mirror I'll be bringing Leg workouts back into 1 workout, increasing the Tricep workouts, and changing my Shoulder workouts to be mostly Rear and Front delts.

My shoulders are wider now by at least 2" going by the tape measure so time to add all round mass and go for the boulder-shoulder look.

March's plan will be something along the lines of:

Back

Chest & Triceps

REST

Legs & Calves

Shoulders

Arms

REST

At the end of March I'll be looking at my front and rear delts for improvement, and my triceps. I'll go easy on Chest again and may even do Triceps before or just take it easy and do basic 3 chest exercises befreo hitting Triceps.

My 2 biggest workouts will be Back and Legs so am doing both the day following a REST day.

Shoulders are far away from any other pressing or pulling movements (chest and back) so they'll also be well rested when I hit them.

[Android]

Shoulders this afternoon and really happy with the result! wow what a day!

Did as planned, concentrating on front and rear delts as much as I could and even got some excellent work done on my traps.

First up was a HammerStrength machine for the delts, it's angled upwards and slight incline to put maximum stress on the whole shoulder, moreso on the fronts as it's a press to the front but still uses the entire shoulder to move.

Worked up to 65kg each side for 2 reps and drop-setted to 45kg to finish off with another 8 reps. I think 65kg was way to heavy to be muscle-building but I did it anyway and happy to push out the 2 that I could.

Rear delts on the pec deck machine was up next while these little muscles are fresh. Set a medium-light weight and aimed for 100 reps....didn't happen in one set though I was almost crying after 33 and had to stop. Rested and got another 25 out, then 15, then another 15....didn't make 100 but rear delts didn't mind!

Front lat raises were up next with a 20kg plate. Standard exercise, 4 sets of 15 - 20 reps strict no swinging, arms out as far as possible, raise to just above horizontal and down again.

Last shoulder exercise was leaning over an incline bench and doing side raises, thus hitting the rear delts mostly, some side delts used. Was using 5kg and moved up to massive 7kg for 3 good sets and repped out 15-20 each set. Rear delts really hurt by this time, a deep muscle pain.

Final exercise/s were traps, I picked up 25kg dumbbells and did shrugs. Then supersetted with cable shrugs. Worked up to 40kg dumbbell shrugs and the stack for cable shrugs. Cable shrugs were fun I felt them hit slightly different, the bar is a straight one, lean back on the heavy weight and shrug, this is pulling from the front whereas with dumbbells they are from the side.

My traps rose off my neck higher than they ever have, I regret not taking my iPhone with me to snap them in pumped up action :-)

Usual post-workout shake with glucose, then chicken, then Pizza.

Will get 2 more meat meals in before bedtime 1 chicken 1 tuna and beaked beans.

I weighed in today at 108kg! I think the double leg workout followed by a rest day has caused them to grow a bit not just pure muscle that would be impossible in such a short time and so much, but just absorbing more carbs and water I suppose. I don't know if any other body part can handle a double workout but I will be doing this next month I am quite impressed.

This is definitely an 'off season' :-)

Arms tomorrow, hitting the outer triceps especially hard is my aim. bicep peak second aim...watch out I'll try to snap a pic of fat little me

[teamfatboy]

That's a great idea with the phone/ training plan - I might borrow that!

Always an informative journal :nod:

[Android]

That's a great idea with the phone/ training plan - I might borrow that!

Always an informative journal :nod:

You're welcome :-)

[Android]

Today was Triceps, supposed to be Arms but I'll do Back tomorrow and finish with Bicep curls. I really wanted to start the month off hitting Triceps especially hard.

I spent right up to the hour in the gym today going through all sorts of different tricep exercises until I could no longer squeeze them and the final exercise felt like I was having to use shoulders just to complete the movement...poor triceps!

I close-grip bench presses to warm-up with 60kg on the bar, squeezing at the top and doing 3 sets of 20 reps.

cable push downs were next using the rope and really pulling it out at the ends to get the outer tricep to warm up as well.

All warmed up, over to the seated tricep pushdown machine, looks like a preacher curl but for triceps. Did these strict and 3/4 stack so I could really feel the muscle. These always hit the right spot for me.

Dumbbell kickbacks were next. This one I did differently than I always do them. I usually lean on a flat bench. This time I grabbed a seat and leant over with my leading shoulder lower than my rear one, it totally isolated the tricep during the movement and took shoulders out of the equation. I did 5 working sets each arm I was so happy with the feeling doing it like this gave me I couldn't stop!

Next was overhead dumbbell press with the arm behind the neck and just doing tricep extension. Was okay, didn't go as heavy as I could but repped out good sets.

Next up was something I'd seen pros do on video, instead of an ez-curl bar tricep extension just use dumbbells. The difference is you can feel the natural tendency to have a hammer-like grip instead of a forced one form a bar. I really liked how this felt too.

I then repped out on cable pushdown (had a v-bar on it) 43 reps at 1/2 stack and the last 10 were painful! I wanted 50 but I couldn't do it!

Finally, I did some tricep kickbacks on a cable machine, these are vertically downward, great for squeezing out the last bit of energy in the tricep.

I took pics of my swollen arm but it's hard to see the tricep horse-shoe shape, also took one of my gut too for laughs will get them up later got loads to do tonight.

I took a nap today in between eating rice and chicken. Now it' rice and beef all night I am growing again ye-hah!

The change to eat carbs at night is working still, you'll see my fat gut in the photo from so much food but the abs are still there ;-)

[Android]

Yesterday was Back day and I can feel that I've trashed my Baack good and proper.

Legs were still achy and today they've calmed down so I'll hit them Thursday or Friday.

Long and short of the Back workout was we hit heavy weights, strict form, and did alot of different exercises. Omitted deadlifts and t-bar rows it was alot of Lat and upper/middle Back work.

Nothing weird or exciting to report and today was REST day. I had a chicken meal at 6, then baked beans at 6:30.

Then took a nap between until 8 and had a bowl of chicken and rice at 8:30. Will do shake before bedtime which I hardly ever do it's usually always meat before bed.

I find after a nap if I drink and eat I can almost feel my body absorbing the food and water. Look forward to weighing in tomorrow :-)

Tomorrow is Chest and Biceps

oh yeah as promised pics of me in current bulking state. Last known weight 108kg

[biggurl27]

Cripes so you have gained 10kgs in 4 months and your bodyfat hasn't gone up much either during your bulk, well done! :clap:

[Big_J]

wel if thats probably 14% then my 17% will go up around 10 more % haha

Lukn lean and big still! great stuff man.. plans to compete this year?

[samoan_muscle]

Looking good - what weight are you tipping the scales at now?