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[Matrix]

Fair enough too Android. Sometimes it's good to just keep your head down, shut out the distractions and train.

I think your advice on training, consistant 24/7 nutrition and all things bodybuilding has already helped give many people(myself included) on this web site an insight into the dedication and persistance it take sto make continious gains. Maybe it is a good idea to atleast keep some part of your training(photo updates) to yourself and support crew.

I remeber watching a Shawn Ray vid, where he almost always wore baggy clothes to the gym because he didn't want to be satisfied or in admiration of his achievements. He thought this would lead to being content, which a champ should never be.

I think not posting photo updates until youve reached this years goal might be the smart choice.

[Small]

BTS Mt.Eden

a lovely member from here works there-shulda gone in the AM

Man they charge $15 casual rate, thank god I'm rich.

try $20 at my work haha

[Android]

Fair enough too Android. Sometimes it's good to just keep your head down, shut out the distractions and train.

I think your advice on training, consistant 24/7 nutrition and all things bodybuilding has already helped give many people(myself included) on this web site an insight into the dedication and persistance it take sto make continious gains. Maybe it is a good idea to atleast keep some part of your training(photo updates) to yourself and support crew.

I remeber watching a Shawn Ray vid, where he almost always wore baggy clothes to the gym because he didn't want to be satisfied or in admiration of his achievements. He thought this would lead to being content, which a champ should never be.

I think not posting photo updates until youve reached this years goal might be the smart choice.

Thanks Matrix I wasn't sure how it would be received but u get the idea 8)

Yeah it is easy to get complacent and it's common to find some workouts or meals aren't pushing the boundaries as much as other times.

[Android]

BTS Mt.Eden

a lovely member from here works there-shulda gone in the AM

Man they charge $15 casual rate, thank god I'm rich.

try $20 at my work haha

Awww what! who works there...tell tell? :doh:

[Small]

probly the only person that works there that coulda given u a proper spot too :pfft:

[Android]

Hammies and Calves today, I experimented a bit with calve raises and learnt something new.

Compared to last November my Hammies have come along way, they had to really I didn't have much then LOL

I only did 3 exercises for hammies and 2 for calves today, I hope that's enough! Since I do 4-5 sets and higher reps I figure it is, the only lose I have is variety on the muscle group when I do limitred number of exercises I suppose.

Hammies I started off with lying leg curls. I did 100 reps in 4 sets not all 25 reps the first one was 35 but got 100 out of the way. Steady reps just warming up the hammies and squeezing them well and good.

I was thinking as I was doing them, "if I didn't squeeze I could do twice as many reps" but then figured squeezing at the top has got to be better than a numbers game...I hope I'm right.

Next I did the girly machine where you stand on one leg and throw your leg over a pad that you then push down and backwards to work the hammies and the glutes. Reps were 25 - 35 range for each leg, this exercise just did 3 sets as it takes so long to get both legs done and dusted.

Again, squeezed as I pushed the padding down and back, slight pause then back again.

Seated calf raises were next and this is whee I lost track of space and time. I was concentrating on trying to work out what part of the muscle calf fires when and where. I had seen Pros do these with a pause in the middle....so they start with heel down go up to the middle, pause, then up again onto the toes, and down...repeat. So I was trying to work out why they would do that.

With toes only slightly angled outwards I could feel that from heels down below the bar and taken up to the middle the inner calf fires, goes hard. From the middle position to standing up on toes it;s the outercalf firing, going hard. I couldn't get the inner calf to even go hard at the top position mechanically or physically it was impossible.

Hmmmmm intereting I was thinking that if you do this in one smooth movement how hard it is to make the mental switch bewee concentrating n the inner calf over to th outer. Because to give an extra 'squeeze' you gotta use yr mind....otherwise you're just moving weights around and leaving you growth in the laps of the gods or lady luck.

The pause in the middle helps alot.

Finaly I supersetted (I don't know what these are) un-stiff-legged deadlifts, with standing calf raises. you get a bx and stand on it, then an olympic bar an with a relatively straight back you bend down, bending the knees go down as far as you can which is dwn to the feet and get a good stretch. Not sure what they are, never done them before but have seen others do them and tried it out since stiff-legged deadlifts are something I've done before already.

That was my workout, feels good to split legs like this but will start oing calves ith Quads as well.

Long post sorry!

ill post a diet up in a day or two I really get into BK once a day lately since finishing off my Mass Gainer. Chicken today cost me $95 and I had eaten all of last weeks 8kg in 6 days plus 10 tins of tuna, 4 visits to BK, 3kg of white rice, 1.5kg of oats and a 2lb tub of whey isolate.

I've brought a 5lb Casein and a 5lb whey isolate to get into and got some extra food to step it up another notch.

[Android]

probly the only person that works there that coulda given u a proper spot too :pfft:

damn :-)

I did arms with a brazilian guy can't remember his name we were on the Petra Baghurst TV show about bodybuilders eating chicken together and happened to see him there. Big weights for me we curled 55kg...

Ohh I saw luv.me/oats there in her bikini the staff were having a good look too as Tom Terry was giving her the once over with less than 4 weeks to go before her comp in Oz :-) go girl!

[Small]

RAFA

haha he works with me

[Android]

RAFA

haha he works with me

Oh yeah he said he works at the Y, he should be a bodybuilder in his spare time, great upper body

[Android]

Big Chest workout today, changed it up b going back to heavy weight low reps. Have been doing higher rep work for 2 weeks, shock treatment time!

First up was seated incline press machine, worked down towards the end of the stack, down to 8 reps, then the bottom of the stack for 5 reps.

Next up was incline dumbbell press, starting it off with 30kg for 12 easy reps. Gotta tell ya that strength doesn't go down when doing high rep work. 40kg next, then 50kg for 2 good sets, 8 reps each and last set dropped to 30kg and squeezed out 10 (last 2 were assisted) to really exhaust the pecs. Outer chest started going blue in places and this became more pronounced during the next exercise.

Cable flyes, worked up to a good heavy weigth where could only get out 10-12 reps. Few sets of these and last set I did rest-pause (rest equals 1-2 secs only) and completed nearly 20 reps - phew!

Finally repped out on a seated press machine with medium weight for 30 reps as I still like the high rep work and had energy to spare. My pre-workout meal an hour before was baked beans and some chicken, pre-workout drink was a 500ml can of V. There's 20g of protein in a can of baked beans just realised as I jsut eat them for the carbs.

Post-workout was protein powder and glucose, got home and had a tin of tuna, the went out for a HellRaiser burger and soft-serve cone. Now it's time for dinner which is chicken and rice and 1/2 avacado.

I'm fat, big spare tyre wrapped around my waist :-( But I'm not as fat as Rusty Jeffers in his off season he looks like a fat hairy bear with big ugly boobs and a beer-gut. So that makes me feel better and I care less now than I did before....can't look good 24/7 or even 12/365 can you!

Tomorrow is REST day I've got carpet being laid in my house which forces me to rest and re-arrange furniture.

Tuesday looks like Shoulders or Legs, and Wednesday is definitely Back with an old training partner of mine. Both training partners are doing a comp at the end of the year which is good as we're now all motivated towards similar goals!

If you're training tomorrow for an event coming soon, make the whole workout count and don't let pain or tiredness stop you from repping those weights 'til muscle exhaustion and even beyond :-)

[luv.me.oats]

I'm fat, big spare tyre wrapped around my waist But I'm not as fat as Rusty Jeffers in his off season he looks like a fat hairy bear with big ugly boobs and a beer-gut. So that makes me feel better and I care less now than I did before....can't look good 24/7 or even 12/365 can you!

man boobs, lol :pfft:

Gross image Android.

But you look pretty good in your bulk phase.

Ah great minds think alike - I trained chest this evening too, want to miss National Chest day (every Monday) tomorrow at the gym, will opt for shoulders instead me thinks.

Oh, we should get together for a sesh this week if poss. Posing too ay?

[Android]

I'm fat, big spare tyre wrapped around my waist But I'm not as fat as Rusty Jeffers in his off season he looks like a fat hairy bear with big ugly boobs and a beer-gut. So that makes me feel better and I care less now than I did before....can't look good 24/7 or even 12/365 can you!

man boobs, lol :pfft:

Gross image Android.

But you look pretty good in your bulk phase.

Ah great minds think alike - I trained chest this evening too, want to miss National Chest day (every Monday) tomorrow at the gym, will opt for shoulders instead me thinks.

Oh, we should get together for a sesh this week if poss. Posing too ay?

Awwww shucks cheers :-)

Here's my schedule see if it suits something u wanna do and yeah fit me in where you can

Tuesday's gone - Shoulders

Wednesday gone - Back

Thursday avail - Legs

Friday avail - Arms

Saturday avail -

Sunday avail -

[Android]

Fair enough too Android. Sometimes it's good to just keep your head down, shut out the distractions and train.

I think your advice on training, consistant 24/7 nutrition and all things bodybuilding has already helped give many people(myself included) on this web site an insight into the dedication and persistance it take sto make continious gains. Maybe it is a good idea to atleast keep some part of your training(photo updates) to yourself and support crew.

I remeber watching a Shawn Ray vid, where he almost always wore baggy clothes to the gym because he didn't want to be satisfied or in admiration of his achievements. He thought this would lead to being content, which a champ should never be.

I think not posting photo updates until youve reached this years goal might be the smart choice.

I did a bad bad thing ....

Was just meaning to take shots of me to analyze and work out where I think I need more work and thought about putting up the last pics here. But it was a webcam movie I used since it's easier to move around and not worry about setting up the camera for each auto-shot (just me here).

Then I thought...how can I get this up on nzbb website? So I YT'd the 2 short clips.

Lighting is crap I'm decorating the house so everything's in my room at the mo including the TV, DVD, PC etc

My Back:

My Quads, Calves

I'd appreciate it if you spot an imbalance in your opinion just put it out there for me to consider.

And I'll try not to get the YT bug...

[Gym rat]

Looking good Android those mean looking wheels.

[boostinggtir]

looking awesome, when do we get the front shoot. Your still bulking right?

[Android]

Looking good Android those mean looking wheels.

Cheers GymRat :-)

looking awesome, when do we get the front shoot. Your still bulking right?

Yep still another 6-8 weeks of bulking to go, will do a front shot soon maybe tonight if I get the time ay not much to see with no abs and bad lighting I thought. With bad lighting the lats get hidden under the arms but will see what I can do.

[Gym rat]

Mean looking lats Android.

[startinfromscratch]

id kill to have those lats! awesome dude.

btw, ive got an app to go check out les mills city next week, see what all the fuss is about.. i hope it lives up to its price/rep!

[Android]

id kill to have those lats! awesome dude.

btw, ive got an app to go check out les mills city next week, see what all the fuss is about.. i hope it lives up to its price/rep!

aawsum will c u there and say hi...tonight was surprisingly busy as, u wont like mondays its full

[Android]

Shoulders tonight and we killed front delts so much the rest of the workout was tame in comparison.

Started with side raises, did 100 reps in 4 sets... 40, 20, 20, 20 I'm really liking this number for most exercises now, 100 reps per exercise rather than thinking about 4 sets of 12 or whatever. just a phase im going thru nothing wrong with 4 sets of 12 btw

We did front raises next with dumbbells and started with, you guessed it 40 reps which is only do-able with 10kg dumbbellls, alternating.

Then went up to 20kg dumbbells my training partner thought I was joking but I did 3 sets at this weight and the final set was a marathon did 12 reps at 20kg, umpteen reps at 15kg, and then 10kg where I slowly squeezed out 30 final reps.

My shoulders went blue and orange, a spider web of blue looked like bruising wrapped around the delt, they were poked!

Next we tried to do superset barbell behind the neck press with upright rows but after 1 set we realised our delts (esp. front ones) were too tired. So we switched to shoulder shrugs, just 3 sets clean sets of 15 reps I have back tomorrow so don't wanna tire anything back there.

Finally we did bent-over dumbbell raises, I did 5 sets with 7kg each hand, just pumped them out and pumped them up with 20 rep sets (there's that magic number again - 100)

Gonna eat big tonight I'm eating what I ate before but adding a meal in somewhere either a brought meal (BK, subway etc) each day. Tonights dinner is oats and chicken...supper will be tuna and some oats again.

[teamfatboy]

Jeepers - db front raises w/20kg.... now that's how to build shoulders :notworthy:

[Gym rat]

Jeepers is right and ouch that is mean and nasty shoulder work out

[Android]

Just an update on food and nutrients.

Oats has 60+gms carbs and 13gms protein per 100gms

Baked beans has 65gms carbs and 20gms protein per 220gm tin

Oats is pound for pound packed with more nutrients (but different protein profile)

Every morning I have 200gms of oats.

Yesterday (and most days) had a tin of baked beans before workout (with chicken)

Last night had 200gms oats with chicken for dinner, then another 100gms oats before bed with chicken.

That;s 500gms oats and a tin of baked beans on top of the 400gms (dry eight) of rice I eat during my working day.

500gms of oats gives 300gms carbs and 65gms incomplete protein, with the tin of baked beans over 2000 calories.

Rice has nearly 80gms carbs and 6gms protein per 100gms, so that's about 300gms carbs and 20gms protein, or 1300 calories.

I also drink a cup of coke once a day, and BurgerKing every other day.

Am eating 1.2 - 1.4kg chicken each day which is about 300gms protein, then 2 double-serve shakes is another 100gms, another 1600 calories

Total protein = 250-300gms (meat) + 100gms (shakes) + 100gms (incomplete protein from rice, beans, oats)

I'm approaching 110kgs in the next week, just working out what I'm eating and its value, probably 5000 calories.

[boostinggtir]

sounds like your killing the eating an the workouts, nice work.

[gazza]

try this mate, 6 eggs scrambled with milk and a tin of beans and sausages all cooked up together on 4 pieces of toast.

looks like something the dog brought up but tastes ok, all good if bulking?