Today was chest day; strength and endurance dramatically increased since my last chest day! I modified my chest day slightly, putting more an emphasis on incline movements and less emphasis on flat bench. Before, I typically focused mainly on flat barbell bench press and did a few accessory movements to finish things off. Today, I warmed up and stretched out, then hit 7 working sets of flat as follows:
225x20 paused
225x20 paused
275x8 paused
315x5 paused
275x6 paused
225x18 paused
225x15 paused (did a drop set with 135 immediately after)
The chest workout before I was only able to hit 225x15 for my first set... And was only able to hit 315x2... My burnout set with 225 I was only able to hit for 8 reps as well... Strength and endurance definitely noticeably went up, and my spotter that provided me with a lift off was in just as much awe as I was!
Typically, I would continue to do many more sets of flat bench, and would toward the end implement a closer grip, but after those sets, I moved on to incline presses. I talked to a gym buddy of mine, and he recommended that I pre exhaust and simultaneously warm up my chest with flat, and then move onto incline and focus my workout on incline movements if I wanted to bring up my upper chest, as that worked really well for him. I have had 4 shoulder injuries in the past and have neglected incline because of the circumstances and believe my upper chest lags in development. Now that I am all healed up, I will be really focusing on improving my incline barbell bench, hammer strength incline press strength, and incorporate a lot of incline cable flies.
Thus, after barbell flat, I did a bunch of sets of hammer strength incline presses supersetted with decline flies. After, I moved onto barbell incline and was to my surprise able to still hit 225 for 5-6 reps for 2 sets; I then dropped it to 185 to rep it out. I superset the 185 incline barbell presses with inclines flies and did a lot of sets (lost count lol) and then incorporated dips and push ups for the last few sets to really burn myself out... It was quite a long and high volume workout, but I honestly felt amazing at the end... somehow I was still pumped as I was walking out!
Workouts continuously get better day by day, and I make tremendous strength PRs with each workout... My calories hover around 3,900-4,300 depending on the day and intensity of my workout - carbs are sitting at about 450g per day and protein is around 350g with the remainder being fat mainly from nuts and avocados... Really excited to see where I will be standing in a few weeks... I honestly won't know how I will react if progress continues at this pace; it is so rapid that my mind cannot wrap itself around it!
As for the tbol effects so far, pumps have TREMENDOUSLY increased, vascularity has gone up, endurance has skyrocketed, and strength increases are very rapid... My appetite has also increased a good amount! Very little bloat and I am staying lean for the amount of food I am eating! Very pleased with the outcome so far... I will most likely hit biceps and triceps tomorrow, delts the day after, and then legs the day after that! Excited to make more progress!