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My Training Log

It's been a crazy week, super super busy, lots of school stuff and work. I only missed one training log entry though, I hit back, shoulders, and bis/tris really hard on wednesday, back felt weak so I went light and did supersets with db pullovers and t bar rows. Shoulders I hit rear delts with cables which I never do but def will start cuz its the best, and supersetted with slow dumbbells. Then did side delts heavy, and heavy presses after. For bis and forearms I hit em pretty hard too, working the bottom part of the forearm behind the back a lot more.

I fell really hard on my wrist while biking yesterday, so the skin is all fucked up and the joint took a little impact as well. I think it'll be fine in a week though. From now until then though I'll just train differently, today I did a leg workout with half machines and half light freeweights, I started with biceps and forearms though, my wrist is messed up but I can still use 15 lb dbs and 30-40 lb barbells without any trouble, so I did a high rep very hard contraction light bicep workout and got the best forearm pump I've ever had, and got a really good bicep pump too. Then I did standing hamstring curls 1 leg at a time, went pretty heavy on these all the way from 5 lbs to 10 lbs, 15, 25, 35 doing as many reps as I could and pausing on each weight. Went straight to light good mornings after that, held the bar in my elbow and on my shoulder instead of hands/shoulder haha. Only went up to 115. Then I hit leg extensions for many sets working upwards, then did lunges, 2 sets with 95, for 10 reps then 20 reps, then went up to 115 and did 10 reps. short rest periods and supersetted with leg extensions (except the 20 rep set). Then leg press for very high reps, 3x50x225 and 30 or 50 reps with 315. then hit some calves on the leg press, 315 for 2 sets, then more laying hamstring curls, then seated calves for 3 sets and I was doneeee.

Sorry for the shitty typing, my hand is all fucked up and it's hard to write or think.
 
Haven't posted in a while, been incredibly busy with finals week approaching. Ironically right now I should be studying for finals but I'm taking a lot of breaks. Still getting a lotta shit done though.

I've been squatting every 2-3 days since my wrist is still fucked up, I can't bench more than 95 on a bad day and 135 on a good day so we'll see whats up with that, it seems to be trending towards getting better but im gonna get an xray over the break. for now im just doing what i can though.

I've squatted 4 times since it happened, first did 8x3x315, then the next time 8x3x315 paused, then 3x8x315 2 days ago, and today i was gonna do 3x12x315 but I did 12x315, 2x3x365, 12x315. My technique is getting great, although towards the end of today my technique started to suffer as fatigue set in. I'll be hitting back tomorrow then taking 1 day off, then hitting squats again on tuesday. Also been doing incline bench pretty much every other day, just 95 lbs though i did 115 the other day, for a lot of sets and reps. and ive been doing a lot of biceps, surprisingly i can still do them pretty well even with my wrist fucked up, in fact, it forces me to use my bicep more to avoid putting strain on the wrist, so my bis have been improving a lot. same for forearms and back, i can do most movements i just have to do em strict, and theyve been growing a lot (well not the back because I've only done one back day since it happened). i just needa hit shoulders more, but lately i havent been. overall im making the most out of the situation, my diet's been pretty damn good except for starting yesterday because finals prep is taking up wayy too much of my time. overall im still making gains, just not in the chest, so fuck it, i'll enjoy the ride and hopefully one day i can bench again, if not i'll just become tom platz #2.
 
4-11-15: The comeback

It's been hard to log lately because I've got a job, girlfriend, school, meals, and lifting to do, but I've recently removed a few time wasters from my life so I think I can start again, because it's worth it :). Been having some good workouts for the last few weeks, but I keep driving myself into an overtraining wall no matter how many rest days I take, which has made me realize that maybe as a natural training to and beyond failure every workout wouldn't be as beneficial as just going heavy, keeping tension on the muscles, and doing lower volume/intensity with higher frequency. A prime example of this is last Saturday, among other things, I supersetted 3 sets of 7 plate leg presses with a set of 225 and 295 front squats, and a set of 315 back squats, followed by leg extensions on all 3 sets, then right back to the leg press, no rest. That was after hitting hamstrings with some supersets to failure too and doing some cleans/snatches with 135 and 185 (I started doing those too, love the snatch!!) The 315 set of squats after the other sets and of course the leg press pre exhaust was insane, on the last rep my hamstrings completely cramped and I couldn't walk for 10 minutes.

My legs were sore all the way up until this Saturday, 7 days, I made some huge gains no doubt, visible improvements to the outer sweep etc, but I wasn't able to train legs for 7 days and my appetite suffered (due to unrelated anxiety), I was only eating the bare minimum (300-400 carbs/200 protein, compared to my normal 400-500 carbs and 225-300 protein), so I lost some bloat/water weight and now my squat feels super awkward due to loss of leverage, not as much technique practice. This leads me to feel that frequency over failure should be my new philosophy, to improve my technique and make some good gains while boosting my strength. Gotta make the most of my last week bulking, and after this 4 week cut, the 6 week bulk following should be pretty good, training every other day alternating a squat/bench day with a shoulders/back day.

Squats
warmups
315x3 or 5
365 x 2 or 3
385x3 (all sets felt awkward due to weight loss, though for dropping from 211 to 204 this isn't a bad squat. decided to stop here though)

Bench
225x8
245x5
265x3

Incline Bench
185x10
225x1 or 2, 225x3 (4th rep assisted)

Cable Chest Flys Alternated with Cable Rear Delts
Chest 45x12
Rdelt 25x12
Chest 55x12
Rdelt 35x12
Chest 65x12
Rdelt 45x12
Chest 75x12
Rdelt 55x12
Chest 85x12
Rdelt 65x12

Chest and Rear Delt Fly Machine
rdelt 120x12
chest 150x12
rdelt 135x12
chest 165x12
rdelt 150x12
chest 180x12
rdelt 165x8
chest 195x12

Face Pull
12x100
8x130
12x130

Rdelt Dumbbell Fly
25s x 12

Forearm Curl
3-5 sets

Decent little workout today. My legs have been pumped and my upper body has been "depumped", aka all my blood has been in my legs, since that insane leg training session last saturday. But I managed to move some decent weight especially considering I looked and felt very flat and weighed only 204. Looking forward to hitting back/shoulders/arms on monday. Also ordered some knock off brand fat gripz which should be arriving on weds (unless they sent them via usps, the shittiest parcel service there is) so those should be quite fun :), gonna hit some circus dumbbell and some forearm/grip exercises and fat bar movements once I get them.
 
4-13-15: Back/Shoulders/Arms

warmed up with 2x12x35 pullovers laying across bench to open up my ribcage and create good posture and mind-to-lats connection

Chin Ups Switched up my technique to isolate the lats so I get fatigued way more quickly haha
12x bw followed by 3 half reps
8x 25 added followed by 3 bw half reps
8x bw (damn so fatigued from just a few sets contraction style!)

T bar rows
2 plates x 10
1 plate x 5 followed by 2p x 5 followed by 3p x 5 followed by 4p x 3 followed by 3p x 3 followed by 2p x 3
1 p x 10 -> 2p x 5 -> 3p x 5 -> 2p x 5 -> 1p x 5

Close Grip Pulldowns
2x12x100

Cable Pullover
3x12

Standing BB Press
95x5
115x5
135x5
155x6 strict, 7th rep push press, 8th rep jerk

Rear Delt Cable Fly (I think this machine uses kgs because every weight feels at least twice as heavy as on other machines)
7.5x15
12.5x15
17.5x15
22.5x12
27.5x12

Side Raise
30x12
25x12

Wrist Curl
3x12x65

Hammer Curl
70s x 12 each side swinging and alternating
35s x 12 strict same time both sides

Overhead tris
3x12

Bicep Curl (assuming ez bar is 25 lbs)
55x8
75x8
95x8
115x8 (a plate each side!! last 2 reps were cheated as fuck though leaning way back)

Elliptical
20 min @ 140-150 hr

Good workout today. Destroyed my back then got in some good shoulder work, but some drama came up towards the end of rear delt cable flyes which was a little distracting for the remainder of the workout. Still pushed thru it though and just did some less volume. I'm enjoying this every other day split, starting my cut 4-22.
 
4-17-15: Deads

Deads
495x3
545x1
405x8 no resetting on ground

DB Row
10x90s
2x10x40s with fat gripz

Chin ups
2 sets

Cable Rows
2 sets

Didn't realize the gym was closing at 9 and I got there at 8, thought it'd be open till 10. So my workout got cut short. Very happy with these deads and i was incredibly sore after. Did some glute and ab activation exercises on the 16th and it helped a lot with my deadlift technique.

4-18-15: Shoulders and Arms

Rdelt Crossover Cable Pulll
50x25 lbs
20x35
15x45
15x45
15x55
12x65

Rdelt Machine
2 sets

Overhead Press
135x5
155x5
175x1 strict, 4 push presses

Rear Delt Shrug and Front Delt Raise alternating
3x8-12x40s both exercises

1 arm cable tri extension
2x15x15 lbs
12x30 lbs

Hammer Curl
12x40s
12x35s
12x30s
12x25s zottman curl

Overhead DB tri ext
15x30
15x40
2x12x50

X-Elliptical
30 min at 140 avg hr

Good shoulder and arm session today!!!
 
4-20-15: Stoned Squats

jk i wasnt stoned even though it was 4-20. cut down to avoid gyno

Squat
3x5x315 paused and beltless

standing ham curl (1 leg at a time)
3 sets

leg press
6.5 plates x 12
7.5 plates x 2x12

Leg Press Calf Raise
2 plates x 12
3 plates x 12
4 plates x 2x12

Ham Curl
ramping up sets to 8x135

Seated Calves
2x12

GHR
12xBW

Good little workout yesterday (or, since it's 12:46 am here, 2 days ago), but my right trap knotted up bigtime while I was squatting. Maybe it was just DOMS from deadlifts hitting me out of nowhere due to stimulating the trap from squats, but I had to foam roll the shit out of it and it's still sore today. Either way I was happy with the session and my legs got a huge pump from the new way I've been doing leg press, specifically targeting the outer sweep. Good stuff all around :)

4-21-15: Bench

Bench (with semi thick bar-makes it harder, didn't want to go heavy since my trap is still kinda fucked. in reality though I just didn't wanna wait for a better bar to open up so I justified it to myself that way :D)
10x225
3x245
3x265
3x265 paused
4x265
12x225

Dips (emphasis on triceps to avoid using my trap while hitting chest)
3x12

Chest Fly
worked up to 150 but trap was bothering me

Triceps
4 or 5 sets

Biceps
2 sets

Elliptical
15 mins at 150 avg HR

Good little workout today too. Lately I've been feeling a bit burnt out but it kind of works since I'm more interested in strength now, so no need for dense, hard, short rest period bodybuilding workouts. Making better gains from strength training anyways, as I usually do (though of course bodybuilding work results in a diff type of size.) Got some really good volume in on bench and felt surprisingly strong with the thick bar, I think 225x12 is a PR on the thick bar, and oddly enough that weight felt incredibly light when I did it, probably due to the 265 before hand. I was benching quite differently today, a lot more triceps and less chest, though I didn't get a pump or burn anywhere (maybe a little bit of delt pump) from it, which was odd. Just had to accommodate my knotted up trap, normally I use a lot of chest on bench but today I couldn't. Still got in a good session, got a nice tricep pump followed by a decent bicep and forearm pump (though oddly enough I felt like my left arm was getting less pumped as I did more sets.. but then it came back when I stopped doing sets... weird). Overall happy with today's session, for some reason I managed to get my heart rate really high on cardio today, there were 2 periods where I was in the 170 range and i even got up to 180 for a few seconds. Sweat a lot too. Feels good.
 
Damn Looks like I've been forgetting to log. Didn't even realize it. Well I'll pick up where I left off, started my cut on Saturday.

4-26-15: Bench

Bench
225x10
245x6

Incline DB bench
8x75s
6x85s
6x75s

Machine Flyes Supersetted with rdelts
3 sets of each

Cable Chest/Rear Delts
3 or 4 sets of each

Tricep Extension 1 arm at a time with cable
3 or 4 sets each side

Zottman Curls
3 sets

Pretty much all I did, plus 30 min of elliptical. Felt weak and all that but fuck it I'm cutting, can't get mentally down about that. It'll come back once my body gets used to not being overfed all the time.

4-28-15: Squat/Dead

Squat
345x3x3 paused

Deadlift
405x3x3

Seated Calves
3 sets

GHR
2 sets

Quad Ext
3 sets

Ham Curl
2-3 sets

good girl bad girl machine
2 or 3 sets

Another short little decent cutting workout. No cardio, I already got cardio in at my PT internship where I led a class of old people working out, which gives me a surprisingly good workout. Every Tues/Thurs.

BW down from 208 to 203 this morning and 201 this evening.
 
Today my diet got fudged up a little bit. I was feeling really cranky and was gagging every time I tried to put quinoa or broccoli in my mouth so I just had chicken thighs (approx 15-18 oz total) for meal 2-3, then between meal 3 and 4 I squeezed in a cheat meal a double burger and fries. Put me in a great mood which was good cause I needed that to brave a challenge that would have killed me if I wasn't in a good mood. But we don't need to talk about that, this is a training log :). Meal 5 was .75 cups of rice then I trained an hour after, hit delts.

4-30-15: Delts and Tris

Rdelt Cable Crossover Pull
pyramidded up to 22.5 kg (pretty sure this machine is in kg) for 12

Face Pull
105x12
120x8
135x8
150x8 (too heavy had to have spotter hold me down)
135x8

Rdelt fly machine
2x12x105

Side Delt Raise
12x15s strict
12x20s strict
8x25s strict
10x25s not strict
10x20s strict, side delts=dead

DB Seated OHP
10x65s
9x65s delts=dead

Upright Row
12x85

cable 1 arm tri ext
12x15
12x20
10x25
8x30
8x35

elliptical
20 mins

Good workout today. I seem to be adjusting to lower intensity nicely, knowing just when to stop, having good workouts and getting good pumps (thanks to creatine, arginine, taurine, and sometimes citrulline mallate, always with beta alanine of course). Very good stuff. I think I finally got this cutting shit down, but I just need variable sources of complex carbs. Got sick of quinoa wayyy too quick to where I literally couldn't put it in my mouth. Guess I'm a pussy then... Jk lol. Gonna get some sweet potatos and or yams this weekend, egg fried brown rice tomorrow, with the small amount that I have. I think I have a good mindset which will be crucial in me having a good cut.
 
Today my diet got fudged up a little bit. I was feeling really cranky and was gagging every time I tried to put quinoa or broccoli in my mouth so I just had chicken thighs (approx 15-18 oz total) for meal 2-3, then between meal 3 and 4 I squeezed in a cheat meal a double burger and fries. Put me in a great mood which was good cause I needed that to brave a challenge that would have killed me if I wasn't in a good mood. But we don't need to talk about that, this is a training log :). Meal 5 was .75 cups of rice then I trained an hour after, hit delts.

4-30-15: Delts and Tris

Rdelt Cable Crossover Pull
pyramidded up to 22.5 kg (pretty sure this machine is in kg) for 12

Face Pull
105x12
120x8
135x8
150x8 (too heavy had to have spotter hold me down)
135x8

Rdelt fly machine
2x12x105

Side Delt Raise
12x15s strict
12x20s strict
8x25s strict
10x25s not strict
10x20s strict, side delts=dead

DB Seated OHP
10x65s
9x65s delts=dead

Upright Row
12x85

cable 1 arm tri ext
12x15
12x20
10x25
8x30
8x35

elliptical
20 mins

Good workout today. I seem to be adjusting to lower intensity nicely, knowing just when to stop, having good workouts and getting good pumps (thanks to creatine, arginine, taurine, and sometimes citrulline mallate, always with beta alanine of course). Very good stuff. I think I finally got this cutting shit down, but I just need variable sources of complex carbs. Got sick of quinoa wayyy too quick to where I literally couldn't put it in my mouth. Guess I'm a pussy then... Jk lol. Gonna get some sweet potatos and or yams this weekend, egg fried brown rice tomorrow, with the small amount that I have. I think I have a good mindset which will be crucial in me having a good cut.


Iifym dude lol don't make your self force feed shit you don't like. I've used all types of carbs they all effect body composition the exact same
 
Damn I've totally messed up my logging haha. My cut is going well though, just been really swamped with school and work and other drama going on so I haven't logged. Let's see... 5-1 I hit shoulders/arms, 5-4 I hit squats 315x8 and 365x3 last rep paused, and 2x3x495 followed by 2 singles at 495 deadlift. 5-5 I hit bench 275x3x3, 5-7 I had a good back workout, and today (yesterday now):

5-8-15

Rear Delt Cable Crossover
pyramidded up, 4 sets total

Face Pull
120x8
135x8
120x12

Side Delt Raise
1 pyramiding up super set, 3 reg sets with 25 lbs

DB seated Press
65 x 12
55 x 15
55 x 12

Upright Row
2 sets

1 Arm Tricep Extensions
15x15
15x20
2x15x25
15x20

Elliptical for 20 mins

Good workout today, crazy pump finally got my supps down (creatine+arginine akg+citrulline mallate+beta alanine) and carbs balanced, getting very lean very nicely. Training future looks bright, though I don't think I'll get that 600 deadlift by June 8th. New goal is for June 17th.
 
5-11-15: Squat/Dead

Ok I'm gonna try this consistent logging thing again haha. Wish me luck! 5-11 is my height day :P

Squat
315x3
365x3 last rep paused
385x3

Deadlift
2x3x501 (2 20 kilo plates, 3 45 lb plates, 1 5 lb plate each side)
1x521 held for grip for 12-15 sec-grip is finally getting stronger!

Leg Press
6 plates + 70 lbs x 2x10
5 plates + 70 lbs x12
5 plates x 12
then when i was taking all the plates off i dropped one on the top of the ball of my foot =/. at least it wasn't a toe but it still hurts like hell, ice/ibuprofen rn.

Calves on Leg Press-kinda hard wish smashed right foot
2x12x2 plates
2x12x3 plates

Standing Ham Curl
8x25
8x35
8x25

Good girl bad girl machine
2 sets good girl
1 set bad girl

Elliptical
20 mins

Good little workout today besides fucking up my foot haha. It'll be fine though, I can still walk and pretty much do everything (even elliptical!) it just hurts a lot, but I'm currently icing it with frozen chicken (lol), and took 200 mg ibuprofen. BW is up to 207/208 as the creatine is kicking in quite nicely now, so I was able to go a little harder on squats and deads. I think I"m just gonna up my cardio and eat more carbs cuz I'm sick of being flat. Still less carbs, and from more complex sources, than when bulking, and still no carbs when I'm inactive, but it's stupid to do a 0 carb day on an off day when I still have to bike to class, lift boxes at work, and focus in class. Might as well keep the carbs higher and just do more cardio, and then when I get home from class/work and am not doing any activity the rest of the day, that's when I'll do the no carb thing.
 
5-12-15: Bench and Other Elbow Destroyas

Bench
6x255
4x275
5x255

DB bench
incline
8x85s
6x85s
flat
17x60s
12x60s

Fly Machine
12x135
12x150
12x165
12x165

Dips (BW)
BW x 12/12/12/15

1 arm Tricep extensions
2-3 sets of 12

Overhead tris
1x8

Hammer Curls
12x25s
12x30s
12x35s

EZ bar reverse curl
45 lbs x 20
65 lbs x 2x12

Zottman curl
16x20s
8x25s

Elliptical
30 mins @ just around/above 140

Good workout today, although now that I"m home my elbows are sore as fuck. That's prob just the tris though, when I cut my joints all feel pretty vulnerable so I decided I'm gonna up the carbs and also up the cardio. That way I'll hold more water and my joints will be safer. Getting real lean, today i weighed in at 206 and I'm loading up on creatine, so the weight loss despite higher GI carbs and creatine loading is a good sign. Overall pretty satisfied with the cut, eating more carbs will also boost my mood, which I've already noticed :). So Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri are training days so for carbs I'm gonna eat about a cup to a cup and a half of rice total (160-240 carbs) plus 2 oatmeal packets (60 carbs) plus a banana and a grapefruit (40 carbs) and 1 or 2 yogurts (15-30 carbs). So the max carbs I'd be eating those days is 370 (sounds like a lot I know!), the minimum is 275-290, which is gonna be most days, the only time I'll eat a cup and a half of rice is when I feel I need it, but right now I think 1 cup a day will be sufficient, although I may decide to make friday my refeed day (useful since I train delts that day and I need all the joint support I can get!) Saturday was previously my refeed day but that makes no sense because I"m pretty sedentary on Saturdays. 30 mins of cardio on all those days, with quite a bit of it above 140, will burn plenty of carbs on top of my relatively high intensity training.

Wednesdays I'll eat half a cup of rice, 2 packets of oatmeal, 1 yogurt (155 carbs total) within my first 3 meals, which I eat while I'm out of the house, then once I'm home and sedentary, I'll just eat meat and broccoli. Sat/Sun will vary depending on my activity, I'm gonna try to do cardio on Saturdays as well in the morning, but this weekend I have visitors staying at my place so I'll probably be a little more active and won't have time to go do cardio. That'll work out though, we're gonna do a big bbq!

But yeah, that's generally the meal plan, hopefully this will allow me to continue making strength gains while maintaining my muscle, feeling better, and not having fucked up joints every time I train heavy.

Sat/Sun will depend on my activity,
 
5-14-15: Back

BB Rows
2x8x135
2x8x155
10x185

Lat Pulldowns
4x12

Cable Rows
2x12

Close Grip Pulldowns
2x12

Biceps and forearms
4 sets

Elliptical
Just over 30 mins at 140-150 HR on avg (highest was 188!!! was goin hard)

Totally forgot to log this so I think this is pretty much what I did. Started carbing up that night.

5-15-15: Shouldas and arms

Rear Delt Crossover
20x25
20x35
15x45
2x12x55

Face Pull
8x100
8x130
12x90

Rdelt machine
3 sets

Side Raise
12x20s superset with 8x20s ohp
12x25s superset with 8x25s ohp
12x25s superset with 8x55 upright row
12x25s superset with 8x55 upright row and 6x10s side raise
12x25s superset with 8x55 upright row and 12x55 btn press
12x20s superset with 8x55 upright row and 12x55 btn press
12x20s superset with 8x55 upright row and 12x55 btn press

Snatch
2x5xbar
3x6x95

Tricep ext superset with curls both with DBs
60x20s tris
20x20s curls
30x20s tris
20x20s curls

Hill sprints HIIT (heart rate felt definitely above 140, prob around 160 avg, maybe as high as 180-190 at peak moments)
15-18 x Ortega Hill (prob 100-125 ft of hill) rest periods were just walking down the hill

Pretty damn good workout today, I carbed up because all my joints were hurting like hell and now I feel amazing. I realized I just burn a fuck ton of carbs because I'm pretty active and ecto, and I've felt sluggish doin the low carb even with super ephedrine in my system, but now I feel amazing and the ephedrine seems to work better for energy. My delts got incredibly pumped today I felt like Rich Piana!!! Like damn I forgot I was that big (not really, but still big!) I weighed 208 carbed up. I ate about 603 grams of carbs (2 top ramens, 1 lb of pasta, 1 cup of rice, plus some yogurt banana and a little bit of yam/beans) between last nights workout and today's workout, probably a little more, and I haven't felt better in ages. Wow my joints feel like I just took a week off or something. I had no idea I could eat so many carbs. Def gonna keep my carbs a little higher from now on at least on days that I'm active (5-6 days a week). I mean I"m biking around and lifting hella boxes at work 15 hrs a week, plus walking a decent amount and training pretty hard 4x/week. Gotta fuel dat body.
 
5-18-15: Squat/legs

Squat
315x3
365x3
385x4
315x1 paused no belt
315x5
315x3 paused

Walking Lunges
24 steps x 40
24 steps x 70
31 steps x 70 (failure)

GHR
3x12 (near failure)

Calves
4x12

Elliptical
20 mins at 130-140

Good workout today. Decided to take a week off from deads and just do em on Sunday, Monday will be the last day of my cut then Tuesday is back in bulking season! (for 2-3 weeks then 4 more weeks of "forced" cutting due to Ramadan) Gonna keep doing cardio every workout this first week of bulking though just to continue leaning out a little more. Then after Ramadan I'll be shredded and can begin a nice 8 week bulk. The light just appeared at the end of the tunnel :).
 
5-19-15: Bench

Bench
12.9x225
3x255
3x275

Cable Flyes
12x60
12x75
12x60

Incline DB Bench
12x50
12x60

DB Flat Bench
12x60

Incline BB Bench
135x8
135x2x12 assisted

Dips
BW x 16/12

Triceps
6 sets

Bicep Concentration curls
giant set 6 (3 on each side) x 30s, 6x35s, 6x40s, 6x45s, 6x40s, 6x35s, 4x30s, 6x20s

Reverse Curl
12x65 lbs

x-Elliptical side to side thing
15 mins at 130-140

Good workout today. Got the most amazing chest pump I've ever had, literally looked like I was on gear in the mirror. I was pretty stoked. I kinda messed up on bench, I almost locked out that 13th rep with 225, but I wasn't prepared to go high reps on that it just felt pretty light. Kinda ruined my strength on the rest of bench but it's all good, pretty happy with this. By the time I was done with flyes my chest had blown up like crazy. Very glad I upped my carbs and lowered my fats, its working amazingly, I also look very lean! Arms were kinda mediocre but it's all good, today was a great chest workout!
 
Got some really gnarly stomach problems on Wednesday, not sure if I was dieting too hard and had my cortisol way high, got the stomach flu, got food poisoning, or was eating too much fiber, or some combination of two or more of those... But yeah I took all those days off from training and eating because I literally couldn't eat. Did a little light 1 hour back/shoulder workout on fri but that's it. Today was the first real day back, but I"m just trying to take it easy because I was going really hard before and burnt the fuck out.

5-26-15: Errythang BW 201

Squat
275x3
315x3
365x3

Bench
225x6
245x5
265x3
225x6

BB Row
135x8
155x8
185x8
225x6
245x5
155x2x12

Dips and Chins
2x12 dips 4x8 chins

BTN Press
12x95
8x115
push presses (mariusz press) 135x5, 155x2x5

Biceps
Went up the rack, one giant set, 10x25s, 10x30s, 10x35s, 4x40s, 4x35s, 6x30s, 10x25s

Good little workout today. Felt weak and flat as expected but I was surprised that I weighed 201. Ate some subway today plus .75 cup of rice and some chips before training, so maybe the fact I'm eating somewhat is the reason for that. Felt weird as hell to not bring my tupperware meals to work and just eat out instead. But I just gotta ease into it all and do the minimum to make gains. I was even more surprised though that my BB rows felt super super strong. Like this was literally my best rowing session ever, prob cuz my back is more fresh than ever, and I was getting some back pain from being in bed all weekend so I foam rolled it a lot and did a lot of activation exercises. Overall pretty happy with today's workout, now starting the slow ease back into my normal routine.
 
5-28-15: Whole Body Workout BW 196

Front Squat
3x135
3x165
3x195
3x215
3x235 belt loose
3x255 belt loose
3x275 belt tight and paused

Overhead Press
5x95
5x105
5x115
5x125

Deadlift
405x10
405x9

Incline Bench
185x6
155x12
135x12

Tricep ext with cables
2x12x15
20 lbs x12/8

Zottman Curls
16 (8 each side) x 25s

Hammer Curl with pause at top
30s x 12

I was a little alarmed that my bodyweight was so low but I didn't let that stop me! It's probably the fact that I didn't take creatine for 5 days while I was sick. Not worth stressing over. I'm looking leannn though! Front squats were hard but good, def got some good work from those. OHP felt very weak, my shoulders are still sore from 2 days ago. The body will adapt. Deads were pretty good, oddly enough I felt em mostly in my hams/glutes, maybe because I was doing them nonstop without resetting at the bottom. I'm gonna be doing deads every 4 days switching between hi rep deads from the floor and hi rep deficit deads (to prevent burnout). Got the idea from George Leeman! Inclines felt beyond weak but I'm not stressing it, my BW was low today and I had hit OHP beforehand. Then hit some arms in the 10 mins I had left. Good workout overall.

My training philosophy at the moment is, since I lost quite a bit of size (though I'm sure it will come back easily, and I may just be looking "small" due to flatness), I'm going to keep with the basic tried and true bang for your buck compound lifts. Plus I'm getting back into it and starting "small" to rebuild my habit and love for training, I def had fun doing something slightly different and new today! I'm adding in a few compound lifts I don't normally do, for as many reps as I feel like, just to get into doing them, but then for all the lifts I do consistently I'm going to do high reps and slightly higher volume, as seen here with 2 sets of deads and in the 8-12 range. Looking forward to gaining some quality size from this as I ease back into eating and stuff. Gonna keep off the cardio till I start gaining weight consistently again. My goal is to peak myself to high reps on compound lifts so when I switch to low rep again in Ramadan (forced IF cut) I can peak pretty nicely on low reps. Hopefully that's how it works haha, it seems like that's what George Leeman was saying.
 
5-30-15: Workout A

Squat
225x10 constant tension
275x10 constant tension
2x6x315

burnt myself out doing 275x10 CT with a short rest period after 225x10. oh well, got a good pump/burn

Bench
10x185
3x8x225

Barbell Row
3x5x225
135x10

Shouolders
Just BSed around but had no energy to do that shit lol. ate higher fats and lower carbs today before my workout so yeah...

Chest/rear delt machine
went decently heavy 195x12 on chest and 155x12 and 135x12 for a few sets on rdelt. pyramidded up on both did high volume

Reverse curls
12x75 lbs

Good workout today, though after that 275x10 I just felt tired for the whole rest of the workout. Kinda sucked but oh well, just eating a ton and letting the body adapt and grow!!!

Bench was ok, just tired, rows felt weaker than last time but i pushed through, shoulders I was too damn tired, chest/rdelt and forearms were decent.
 
6-2-15: Shiet

Squat
365x3

Bench
225x10
275x1

incline db
12x75s or something

leg press
3 or 4 sets of 40 with 4 plates, 1 set of 50 with 4 plates

curls
3 or 4 sets

lat pulldown
1 set

chest fly superset with rdelt
3 or 4 sets

t bar row
1x12

lat pulldown
2 sets

abs
3 sets

Kinda shitty workout today. I felt good until I took my pre workout but suddenly I got super anxious, I didn't realize my caffiene tolerance had gotten so low because I didnt realize I hadn't taken pre workout in like 2 or 3 weeks. Then the squat racks with the mirrors were wrapped in caution tape for repairs or some shit so I had to use one without it. Kinda fucked with me and my form, and since my knee was already hurting from mis-foam rolling it yesterday it rlly fucked my joints up. This carried over into bench where my hip was cramping and I felt weak. Then I just decided to do whatever I felt like just to get something in. Ended up doin some legs, then decided to do bis, and some other random shit. Overall this workout was just a shit sesh and made me realize maybe I shouldn't do whole body workouts because I kind of feel like that's what I was anxious about after the caffiene. Shit's weird. But since I'll be following a strict routine for Ramadan I might as well just take it easy and do some bodybuilding shit, and whatever I feel like on a given day, within reason. We'll see where the road takes me... As long as I'm 100% for Ramadan and gain some good size.
 
6-4-15: Back

Pullover
3 sets light laying across

behind back old skool exercise thing basically take a light barbell and raise it behind your back using tris, lats, traps, rear delts
3 sets light

Sternum Chin ups
1x6

BB Row
8x135
5x185
2x5x225
12x155

Close Grip Pulldowns
120x8/10/10

Cable Row
10x90
10x120

Heavy pullover laying across
65 lbs x 8/12

Reverse Curl 10 reps wrist down 10 reps wrist up
3 sets with 55 lbs

Hammer Curl
12x30s
12x25s

Zottman Curl
2x16 (8 each side) x 25s

Elliptical
20 mins

Decent workout today, been feeling really shitty lately but just trying to push forward. I think I ran myself back into the overtraining zone by getting overzealous with my training and trying to do intense whole body sessions every other day. Just gotta stick with the lower frequency everything once a week, 4 workout days a week training. Maybe 5, but yea, read a good dorian yates article today that put things in perspective
 
Oh crap I forgot to log friday's workout. Just a basic but awesome bodybuilding session for shoulders/tris. Trained with 2 friends so it was a bit slow but still got a good pump and some good work in, not to mention some crazy soreness. I feel like I've already made gains from that workout. Today, 6-7, I weighed in at 204, so I'm finally gaining some damn weight back! (or it's just creatine :P)

6-7-15: Biceps/forearms and Legs BB style

Concentration curls
warmups
20s x 16
27.5s x 16
30s x 16
35s x 16

Zottman curl
20s x 16
25s x 16

Good arm pump at this point. Veins poppin. Time to hit legs.

1 leg ham curl
12x10
12x15
8x25
8x35

Stiff leg deads kg plates
89 lbs x 15
133 x 15
177 x 15
221 x 12
271 x 15/177x15

Leg press
50x225
50x405
50x505
20 or 30 x 595

front squat
8x135
20x135 nonstop!

GHR
3x12

Seated Calf Raise
2x15x50 lbs

lunges
24x60

Then I just chilled in the jacuzzi. Good workout today!
 
6-9-15: Chest BW 205 climbing back up!!!

Rear delt flyes
just some light pumping sets:
15x60 lbs
15x75
15x90
12x105

Incline DB Bench
12x50s
12x65s
12x75s
12x85s
12x85s

DB Flat Bench
12x60s
10x75s
8x90s
8x105s!!! 5 lb and 2 rep PR! previous DB flat pr was 100x6 back in HIGH SCHOOL 3 yrs ago!

Cable Flyes
3x12

Machine Flys and Rdelts
pyramid sets from 150-195 up by 15 each time sets of 12 for chest
pyramidded from 120 to 150 then back down to 135 with rdelts (8-12 reps)
not really worth detailing this time haha

Triceps
6 sets

Rdelt Tricep Old Skool exercise thing i really need to find a video of this
2 sets, last set my abs cramped and i dropped the bar on my heels lol. good thing it was only 35 lbs. abs r way too damn sore cuz ive been training em hard lately

abs
just 15 reps of right, left alternating each time

Good workout today! Was stoked to get a PR on DB bench, I normally don't do these except after I hit some heavy ass DB inclines to failure, to where I can only do 65 lbs. Then again, I never really try to go heavier than that and just hit a set of 15 then a set of 12, both to failure, with 65s, short rest periods, and call it a day, just training for pump. But today I was training with my girl so I was goin quite a bit slower than normal, and just went for some heavy weight. Got a nice PR, pretty happy with that, since I haven't gone heavy on those in ages (since HS lol). Overall happy to be having good workouts again. Was a great idea to lay off the powerlifts, those wear your joints out if you lose a lot of weight!
 
6-10-15: back/bis

Lat pulldown
12x130
8x150
8x165

Cable Row
100x10
130x10
160x8

T bar row
45x12
80x10
115x8
drop set 140x8/115x4/80x8/45x6

Rack pull
8x225
8x315
8x315
12x225

Biceps
6 sets

Good little 1 hr workout today, had to rush but it's all good! my body's worn down as hell, can't wait to be done with work after tomorrow (last day!) and never have to lift a damn box again (for a few months lol). Body's gonna recover.
 
6-15-15: Legs

Seated Calves (135=1 plate, 225=2 plate, 315=3 plate)
15x135
15x225
12x275
12x315 drop set to 12x225
15x225

Standing Calves
15x90
15x135
12x120

Donkey Calf
2x12x120

Calf Press
3x15-20x135

1 leg ham curl
2x12x30
2x8x50
1x8x60

Stiff Leg Deads (didn't feel these too much, not sure why, was kind of running out of carbs here I guess, so no lactic acid?)
15x135
2x15x225

Hack Squat
20x225
15x315

Leg Press
50x1 plate
50x2 plate
50x4 plate
40x5 plate

Front Squat
225x8
275x6

back squat
225x8
275x5
315x8 (was just going for 6 but took a long rest from the last set, so I ended up getting 8 and almost puking after. damn, good ole fatigue!)

Writhe in Pain
a couple minutes

Pretty hard workout today! My diet was really f*cked this weekend so I didn't eat much, and didn't have very many carbs (but at least I still got 150-200g protein both sat&sun).

Overall though it was pretty good, I ran out of carbs by the time I got to stiff leg deads, so I slowed down and also the burn wasn't quite as intense anymore. I ate 240g carbs today in 2 meals before my workout but it wasn't enough. Drank some gatoraide during squats that helped. But besides that, it was a great workout, and now that I've eaten some carbs I'm getting really really sore! #last2daysofgainsb4cut
 
Forgot to log my chest training on Tuesday, no weights worth posting but got a good pump. Surprisingly I'm not sore even though I worked it hard, it seems like all my soreness is in my legs, esp my calves. Been having a lot of trouble standing and walking this week lol

6-18-15: Back

Weighted Chins
3x8xBW
8x10
8x25
5x45 (Followed by 3 half reps)

Cable Row
12x90
10x120
12x150

Lever Row Hammer strength (1 arm at a time)
8x135
8x185
8x225
8x245
8x265

Vertical Lat Pull machine
8x135
8x225
8x275

HAmmer Bar Curl
12x95
8x115
8x95
20x50 reg bar 10 reps wrist down 10 reps wrist up

Hammer Curl
25sx12/8

Forearm Roller
1 set

Ellipitcal
20 mins avg HR 133

Surprisingly good workout yesterday night after the first fast of Ramadan. It's gotta be world gym, great atmosphere, great equipment. Just ate with the fam, a little over half a lb of beef, some egg rolls, garbanzo beans, a date, watermellon, and salad to break the fast, a handful of berries pre workout, 1.5 scoops of protein w/~10g glutamine intra workout. A little under half a lb beef post workout with garbanzo beans and egg rolls, 12 oz fillet mignon w/mustard and salad at 4 am before today's fast. Tonight I'm going strict diet again, I plan on eating 1-1.5 lbs of tillapia and 1-1.5 cups of rice, spread in 2 meals, one before my workout, one after, then some steak in the morning again. Maybe some green beans too. Might have some pie before my workout too for extra carbs, since my dad made some. Flexible/strict dieting, 80/20 rule :).
 
I think I forgot to log friday, just a kinda wack shoulder workout that I somewhat salvaged at the end with some heavy upright rows.

6-23-15: Legs

Low Bar Squat!
2x3x315
5x315

Deadlift
405x3
455x2
415x8 touch n go

Seated Calf Raise
3x12x275

Standing Calves
2x12x120

Leg Press
50 x 3 plates
40 x 4 plates

1 leg ham curl
8x20
8x40
8x60

Good Girl Bad girl machine
2 sets each

Reverse Hyper
50 lbs x 20 reps

Abs
2 sets

Pretty good workout today. The sweatiest nighttime workout I've ever had, damn my shirt was drenched! I love low bar squats, haven't done em in 2.5-3 years, I guess I never liked em before because my hamstrings weren't as huge as they are now, and I had poor neuromuscular control in my posterior chain. But now the leverage on em feels amazing. I just gotta get used to it, and get my rear delts/middle traps used to holding the bar. I like these a lot, I'll prob do some more just 3x3x315 on Friday after hitting delts. Should be interesting doing them with a delt pump haha. Just gotta get that practice in. Deads were good but obv my posterior chain was fatigued from the new movement, low bar squats, still, not bad, and 405/455 was moving pretty damn fast once I got in the right intense mindset (first few warmups were a bit slow and painful). 415x8 was painful but fun, I may have tweaked my lower back on the 405 set but only minorly, lost my balance a bit. It's strange cuz after all this I noticed my whole quad, not just my inner (vastus medialis) quad, felt very well worked and sore. I never thought low bar squats would work the vastus lateralus and rectus femoris so much. They just felt so perfect and I had so much more leverage in the hole than with high bar, and most importantly, no knee pain!!! I used to get back pain doing low bar squats but now that I know how to keep tight better they feel good.

Ok that's a ramble haha, calves were good, got really sore in a short period of time with only a few sets, but didn't want to not be able to walk for 5 days like last leg day, so I cut it short with lower volume, gonna slowly build up my leg day volume on this lower calorie fasting diet. Leg press was good too, this one I used today was great for keeping constant tension, though it felt quite heavy for how little weight was on. Just more reason why I hate people who brag about their leg press, some leg presses I can do 700 lbs for 20 reps no problem, this one I don't think I could do 700 for 1 without tearing something or getting stapled! 400 was challenging enough. Ham curls were decent, good girl bad girl was good, another good machine for keeping constant tension, gotta love the equipment at world gym it's top notch (the UCSB rec cen SUCKS!)! Reverse hypers were incredibly uncomfortable, first time ever doing this movement. Oh well, I'll get used to it and figure it out eventually. Then just hit some light abs and called it a (tired) day! Great workout, just don't wanna overdo it so early in Ramadan so I don't feel burnt out later on in the month.

Broke my fast with about .75 cups of rice, about 6 oz chicken and some lentils, had a 40g protein protein shake during my workout, had .5 cups white rice, half a scoop protein, 1 greek yogurt, and 12 oz tillapia post workout, and my pre fast meal will be 10-12 oz carne asada with an avocado and 2-4 eggs! Gotta get dem nutrients in! And drinking a ton of water of course!
 
6-23-15: Chest/rdelt/tris

Kinda had a wack chest workout yesterday, my bench technique felt wayy off, my triceps felt very weak, and everything hurt either my elbow or my shoulder. I managed to hit 225x8 on bench, and then I found 2 tricep exercises i could do and 1 chest exercise i could do pain free. surprisingly I got a decent pump, and got my rear delts pretty sore, but yeah was definitely a semi depressing session, one of the worst workouts I've had in a while. Oh well, I don't have an explanation for it now but I'll figure it out. At least I got an ok pump and my rdelts got sore, and today my chest tris and front delts are sore (and elbows =/). Prob just cuz I'm on a caloric deficit.
 
6-25-15: Back/Bis

Pullover Machine
12x75
12x90

Close Grip Pulldowns
8x90
8x120
8x150
8x160

BB Rows
135x5
185x5
235x4
185x8
155x12

Hammer Strength Vertical Lat Pull Machine (135=1 plate, 225=2 plate, 275=2.5 plate. guess i could've wrote that in but this is funner lol)
8x135
8x225
8x275

Hammer Strength Seated Row (same deal with the numbers)
135x8
225x8

Pull Ups
8 Chins
6 Wide Grip Pullups

DB pullover
8x50
8x65

Cable Curl
12x30
12x50

Concentration Curl
2x12x20s

Machine Preacher Curl
12x25
12x40

Forearm Roller
1 set with 25 lbs
1 set with 15 lbs

Ok to decent workout today, my left shoulder has been aching and very tight since my bench workout on Tues, but after my heaviest set of BB rows the pain/tightness started to go down a little bit, and the workout started to go uphill from there. Felt most exercises a decent amount in the lats, esp the vertical movements, so that was good. I think my latest dietary approach to this Ramadan hasn't been working too well, time to go back to what I know has worked for me in the past and just do low carb every day except Tues and Fri, like I had originally planned, with some semi-strategic cheat meals. That will have to start Sunday as I have a cheat meal scheduled with my "super best friend" ;) on Saturday, so starting Sunday I'll be stricter with my diet, carb wise. I think my training schedule has been ok, but I'm going to make just a few changes, I won't be doing normal flat bench, just incline on my chest day and close grip on my shoulder day. I think my leg day and back day are fine, perfect actually, but the main changes are I need to work around my shoulder/elbow pain on chest day. That's the shitty part about dieting, dry joints... But I think doing higher fat and lower carbs should help with that once my body adapts. In a way this might be good since I'm adjusting from extremely high carbs (400+ per day) and low fat (60-90) to no carbs slowly, as opposed to in the past where I had no idea how much I was eating pre Ramadan, but probably more around 200-350 carbs and 100-150 fats. I'm already starting to plan for next Ramadan lol, but I"ll have to force myself to focus on the present.

Either way I know my lats/back were worked today better than I've worked them on so called "back days" in the past, even if today's workout wasn't completely up to my current high standards, and the little bit of bicep and forearm work I got in at the end was decent. It's all about being adaptable and going with the natural flow of things instead of fighting it, within reason!
 
6-26-15: shouldaz

Face Pull
10x120
12x150
8x160

Rdelt on Shrug Machine
3x12x135

Cable Cross Rear delts
3x12

Upright row
3x12x90

Side Raise
2x12x15

Side Raise Machine
12x25
12x35
2x12x45

DB Shoulder Press
50s x 8/10/10

Smith Machine BTN Press
3x12xbar (really focusing on even form here because I realized the stem of all my shoulder problems, esp on overhead movements, is my left shoulder is wayyyyyy higher- oddly enough during the set i felt this most in my lats, like the most incredible lat burn ever, but after the set i feel the burn in my upper back and front delt)

Close Grip Bench
3x12x135

Tri kickbacks
2x12

Hammer Curl
2x12

Elliptical
15 mins

Decent workout, my right rear delt got a good pump but my left was having a lot of trouble. Been feeling very uneven lately, maybe it's because of the way I sit, been sitting a lot more since I came back from college, not biking around and not having an active job. I might actually start my delt workouts with side delts from now on because that seems to be lagging more and for some reason i feel like i might be able to get a better rdelt pump if i do side delts first. I'll experiment and see. At some point during presses I finally was able to get focused and actually got a rear delt pump from db shoulder press, go figure lol. Then on the smith machine I noticed my left shoulder was a whole inch above my right shoulder, which would explain why I'm uneven on everything, never done it in the mirror and haven't had access to a smith machine, so wow.. I couldn't get my left shoulder down for shit so I just put my right shoulder up and tried to pinch my shoulder blades, which gave me the most insane lat burn ever, more than any actual lat movement. I think I'm gonna start doing these 2-3x/week as part of my warmup, maybe this is just what I need to get even, some even shoulder presses. Would explain why my left lat and rdelt doesn't get as much activation and why my left front delt and trap get way more activation. After this I felt very even on close grip bench even though the fatigue made me feel quite weak, I was trying to lead with my right again and it felt very even and good, and I got a great tricep pump with virtually no elbow pain. So that was nice, but I was running out of time, and haven't done cardio all week, so I cut the tris short. Starting Sunday I'm going to lower my carbs by quite a bit and focus on my workouts on compound movements. Finally found a good balance of vegetable intake to help me not feel like shit from the 2-3 lbs of meat I'm eating daily.
 
6-29-15: Legs

Low Bar squat
315x3
325x3/5/3

Deadlift
405x3
465x3
425x9 (tng) PR!

Seated Calves
3x12x90

Calf Press
3x12x50

Leg Press
30x1 plate
30x2 plate
30x3 plate
30x4 plate
40x5 plate

1 leg ham curl
8x30
8x50
8x60

Good Girl bad girl machine
2 sets

Decent workout, squats felt unusually weak, but deads were strong! You win some you lose some.

6-29-15: Chest

Incline
185x5/8/10
205x6

DB Bench
2x12x85s

Flys
2x12

Dips
2x12

tri dips
3x12

EZ Bar tri extensions
2x12

Hammer curl
3x12

Elliptical
20 mins

Chest press machine
2x12

Close grip bench
12x135

Hammer curl alternating RP style
24 reps total (12 each side) x 45
16x55
16x65

Ok workout, left front delt got insanely activated and took a lot away from my left chest. Very very aggravating, I'm super pissed that I can't seem to get even, my left shoulder always rises before my right even when I consciously try to lift my right. Working on it hopefully this was just 1 bad session. Was really fucking crowded today so I didn't get a chance to even em out with smith machine BTN press as part of my warmup cuz some fucker was on the machine and I hate waiting for fuckers.

Yeah I was pretty pissed about this workout, couldn't seem to fire any muscle right. Getting really sick of this, feel good on the first of 2 days feel like shit the second/feel like shit on pressing days. Since I can't seem to activate my rear delt anymore, I'll just start doing heavy compound movements that give it no choice but to contract and grow instead of fucking isolation exercises that don't seem to work for me anymore.
 
7-2-15: back

pullover
3 sets

close grip pulldown
8x140
8x160
6x180

BB Row
8x135
6x185
6x235
8x185
12x155

Hammer Strength Vertical Lat Pull Machine
2x8x225

Hammer Strength Lever Row
2x8x225

Chins
3x8

Biceps

8 sets

ok workout.
 
7-3-15: Shouldaz

Rear Delt DB Row
12x15s flyes
10x25s flyes
8x35s
8x45s
8x55s
15x35s

Face Pull
8x100
8x130
8x160

Rdelt Machine Fly
3x12

Upright Row
3x12x90

Side Raise
12x15s
10x20s
10x20s
10x20s
12x15s

Side Raise Machine
12x25
12x35
12x45
12x55

Rdelt Shrug
3x12

Smith Machine BTN Press
3x12

Close Grip Bench
2x12x135

Alternating RP Hammer curl
3 or 4 sets of 16 (8 each side)

Cable Tri Extension
3 or 4 x 12

Elliptical
20 mins

Good Shoulder workout today, neglected front delts a bit due to time constraint but that might be good for balancing out my delt. Overall happy with this workout. Lookin forward to legs on Monday.
 
7-6-15: Legs

Good girl bad girl machine
3 sets each light warmup

Squat
335x3/3/3/3/6

Leg Press
225x20
315x20
405x20
495x20
545x20
495x25

1 leg Ham Curl
2x12x40
1x12x50

Seated Calves
15x225
3x12x275
12x225

Good short workout today, been feeling run down so I"m moving deads to my back day.
 
7-7-15: Chest/Tris/Bis

Warmup Delts
rdelt 12x15, 12x25, 12x35, 12x45, 12x55, 18x35
side delt 2x10x20

Incline Bench
185x6
195x6/8/8
215x4 failed rep 5 lol

Ramy Rdelt Pulldown
2 or 3 sets of 12

Fly Machine
3x12x160

DB Bench
70sx12/12/10/8 1 min rest periods (90% atp regen, yay for NASM learning!)

Chest Dip Machine
2x12

Tricep dip machine
2x12

close grip bench
12x135

Cable Triceps
2-3 sets

Biceps
4-6 sets

Elliptical
19.5 mins gym closed :(

Good workout, best chest workout in a while actually felt it in my chest! Tris were whatever but I was running out of time.
 
7-10-15: Deads/Back

Deadlift
455x3
475x2
435x10 PR!!
(135x12 barbell row)

Close Grip Pulldown
100x8
130x8
160x8
180x5 +3 partial reps

Hammer Strength Lever Row
185x12
225x8

Hammer Strength Vertical Pulldown
135x8
225x8
315x8 partials a little more than halfway down

Pullover
2 sets but the second one my right lat had a shooting pain so I stopped, no permanent damage though

Alternating Hammer Curls (rep count is total, half of rep count on each arm)
20x35s
20x45s
16x55s

Forearm Roller
3 sets with 20 lbs

Elliptical
20 mins

Pretty good workout today, was very happy and surprised with this deadlift PR since I'm fasting/cutting! Close Grip Pulldowns I oddly felt a lot in my lats, more so than usual, which is not normally the case after doing deadlifts, maybe I'm getting better lat activation on my deads than previously. Or maybe it was the rows before hand, who knows, but I"m gonna keep deads on my back day for a while and see how it works for me. I'm also gonna switch back to a high bar/low bar hybrid squat because low bar is wrecking my back and hips, shits been mad sore since monday. Low bar squats seem like they're more dangerous in the long run even if it's easy on the knees and potentially has great leverage, I think a hybrid squat would work better for a long femurred individual like myself, cuz I have to lean wayy too far forward on low bar squats.

Everything else was good, I"m tightening up the diet (lower fats esp on carb days, but even on no carb days, to burn more bodyfat) and I"m doing more cardio, aka adding this 3rd day in. Makes sense to do cardio on my no carb day too since I'll theoretically burn more fat. I haven't really been tracking macros but I'm eating 2-3 lbs of meat every night, last night I had about 1-1.5 lb of wings in my first meal along with 24g carbs from lentil soup, 16 oz tillapia in my second meal, and 3-4 eggs with 4-6 oz carne asada, okra, and a protein shake in my 3rd meal, and tonight I had 6-8 oz carne asada with an avocado, salad and 4 oz stew beef in my first meal, 1.5 scoops protein intra workout, 8 oz carne asada with an avocado in my second meal, and in my 3rd meal I plan on having about 2-4 oz stew beef and 4 oz carne asada along with 3-4 eggs and okra, maybe with a protein shake. So I'm getting over 200g protein daily but I've been eating a lot of fatty chicken with the skin on so I'm cutting down on that a bit, sticking with more beef. We'll see where it goes, I think it worked out nicely that I eased into the diet instead of going gung ho 0 carbs right off the bat. Though I might do that next time or the time after, we'll see :)
 
7-10: Shoulders

Upright Row
2 or 3 sets of 12x90
2 or 3 sets of 12x110

Side Raise
3 or 4 sets

Side Delt Machine
4 sets

Cable Side Raise (first thing I actually felt in my side delt)
4 sets

Rear Delt on Chest Machine
3 or 4 sets

DB Rdelt Row
2 or 3 sets

Tricep Dips
3 sets

Close Grip bench
185x8/9/10

Tricep Pushdown
3 or 4 sets

Biceps
6-9 sets

Elliptical
15 mins avg hr 150 ish

I don't remember my shoulder workout super well, I forgot to log it that day :(. I do remember I was sleepy as fuck cuz I ate too much carbs before hand tho.

It was a decent workout but starting with side delts was a bit of a mistake for now, still gotta get dem rear delts huge!

7-13-15: Legs

Squat
3x315
3x345
5x275 beltless

Seated Calves
2x12x90

Calf Press
2x12x50

Abs
3x20

Elliptical
20 mins avg hr 133 ish

Today's workout was kinda wack. Pretty sure I'm accumulating a lot of fatigue because my head has been super foggy lately and I've been a little run down. Ramadan will be over soon and I"ll have a giant 3-5 day refeed then cut for 2-3 more weeks normal style. I don't know how IF works for a lot of guys, maybe I"m just doing it wrong lol, also Ramadan is a bit different since we can't drink for the whole 16 hour fast. But hey if Big Ramy can do it, even if he's most likely on follostatin, gh, test, etc, and maintain his lean 330 lb frame I can do dat shit too. I think next time I need to do my hardcore 7 days of 0 carbs first to get it to work a little better for me. Been doin higher carbs the last few days since I've been feeling so run down but we'll see what happens.
20 mins
 
7-14-15: Chest

Rdelts
3 sets

Incline Bench
3x5x215
8x185

flyes
12x120
12x130
12x150
12x160

DB Bench
85x12
1 min rest
85x8
1 min rest
85x6

Tricep Pushdown
4x12

Hammer Curl
12x35s
12x45s
16x55s alternating (8 each side)

Elliptical
20 mins

I think I did more than this but can't remember too well. Feeling quite fatigued, so I ate a decent amt of carbs in my first meal tonight and a few in between meal 1 and 2, none in meal 2, and will have none in meal 3. Tomorrow (or rather today, the 16th) will be a light back day, I'll just deadlift 315 at the end of my workout for 3x6 or something. Then a weekend of big eating since Ramadan will be over, then back to cutting starting either Tues or Weds. This time I'm gonna add more supplements (beta alanine, creatine, cla, caffeine, arginine/gaba at night, citrulline/agmatine pre workout, etc) to burn off that last 2-3 weeks of fat at a fast rate while having much better pumps and stronger workouts. I'll also be doing a lot more cardio, but also eating a lot more, to keep that metabolic fire running. Gonna be starting kempo again too. Looking forward to it, bout to get super lean!
 
7-17-15: Back Day

Lat Pulldown dont remember the specifics
3-4x10-15x100-120 parallel grip and underhand grip

Hammer Strength Lever Row
15x135
2x12x185

Side Raise (between sets of the others)
around 5 sets of 10-15 with 10-15 lbs

1 arm lever Pulldown hammer strength machine

Cable Row
70x12
100x12
120x12
150x10
170x10
190x8
Dayum these felt good

Deadlift tng
8x135
8x225
2x8x315 last set rest pause 15-30 sec then 2 more reps

Pullover Machine
12x60
12x75
2x12x90

Concentration curl
3x16 (8 each side) x 20
2x16x35

Circuit alternating right left seatted curl (sc) and incline bench curl (ic)
left 8x15 sc right 12x15 sc
left 10x15 ic right right 12x15 ic
left 12x15 sc right 12x15 sc
left 12x15 ic right 12x15 ic

Elliptical
20 mins between 150-160

Really great workout today. Ramadan is over and I decided to start taking pre workout again. Felt great to be killin it on pre workout with short rest periods. Took 4000 mg cla, 1g agmatine, 2g arginine, 3g citrulline mallate, 3g beta alanine, about 100-150 mg caffiene, 2 mg creatine hcl, 4 mg creatine mono, 3g glutamine, and i think that might be it before my workout today. Shit was amazing, I had an insane amount of energy and got a pretty good pump and felt everything really well. Best cable rows I've ever had today, felt super strong, probably because even though I was fatigued the rest of the stuff was like a short rest period low weight warmup and then cable rows were heavy and strong. Then I felt deadlifts pretty well in my lats too, doing em more contraction style. Hit some bis then some high intensity cardio with energy to spare. Pre workout is some serious shit. I'm gonna be careful not to spoil myself with too much, only a decent amount while dieting but never on high cals.
 
7-19-15: Shoulders and Sweat

Rear Delt Warmup
Hit sets of 8-12 with ascending weight, 15-25-35-45-55. Short rest.

Face Pull
3 sets with ascending weight, medium rest.
12x110
8x130
12x150

Rdelt on Chest Machine
12x75
12x90
12x105
12x120

Upright Row
12x90
12x90
12x110

Side Raise on Low Cable Cross Machine
Light weight short rest high volume, for a pump.
4x12x10
2x12x15

Side Raise Machine
Left Shoulder started hurting as usual so I worked up slow (also as usual lol).
15x25
15x35
15x45
15x55
Felt like I could do 15x65 but I didn't wanna push my left shoulder farther, still hurt just a little bit.

Close Grip Bench
135x12
185x10
225x9! was not expecting this lol
225x2x6

Tricep Pushdown
12x20
12x30
12x40
12x50
12x50

Hammer Curl
12x35s
12x40s
16 alternating (8 each side)x55s

Reg Curl Alternating
pyramid up the rack
10x20s
10x25s
6x30s
6x35s
6x30s
6x25s
6x20s

Pretty good workout today. Back on pre workout although I don't wanna use it too heavily because it's definitely masking my symptoms of fatigue lol. Even though I was fatigued and expecting to be weak I think the addition of creatine and pre workout are helping immensely, not to mention that since I"m no longer fasting my eating is more normal and I'm having more carbs. But everything felt stronger than normal which was really nice. Doing close grip bench after millions of sets of delts is usually pretty weak but today I said fuck it, I'm sick of training this bullshit contraction style I think I"m just gonna go heavy and try to have good form but who cares if my chest works more than my tris, lol. I think being with the daytime crowd helped with that, it definitely is faster paced so I made that good impulse decision lol. World gym is pretty crazy packed but there's so many machines that you can usually get what racks you need. Pretty happy with pump and strength today, hitting some light legs tomorrow.
 
7-20-15: Legs

Seated Calves
12x225
3x12x275
12x225

Calf Press
3x12x135

Standing Calf Raise
3x12x135

1 leg ham curl
4-6 sets

2 leg ham curl
4-6 sets

Leg Press
2x25x4 plates

Hack Squat
12x135
12x225

Beltless Low Bar Squat
225x8/8/9

Quad ext
3 or 4 sets

Good Girl bad girl machine
3x30 each

Abs
2 sets

Good workout today, very sweaty, lots of volume, but low intensity which was nice. Decent pump and good burn, actually went near/at failure on hamstrings and calves. Just taking it easy on quads cuz im getting knee pain and fatigue. Going to kempo tonight for the first time in a long time. Should be interesting.
 
7-23-15: 3 a day

Deadlift
495x3
445x8

Cable Pulldown Close Grip
8x100
8x130
8x150
8x160

Hammer Strength Row
12x1 plate
8x2 plate

Pullover
1 set

Vertical lever pulldown
2 sets

Cable Row
1 set

Then went to kempo from 2:30-3:30 and again from 7-8:30. 3 short workouts today, interesting. I feel acomplished. Deads weren't super strong but im obv pretty fatigued right now. Just gotta wait till next mon on leg day to deadlift again.
 
Some times less is more. How long are you in the gym for?

Pretty long, about 2 hours on average, u think i might be overdoing it? I might agree with you, after this cycle of training is over (strict cutting) in a little under 2 weeks I'm going to reduce my volume/exercises and see if it helps. Def feeling quite fatigued right now.
 
7-25-15: Shoulders

Rear Delt Fly/row
3x12x15s fly
3x15x35s row

face pull
8x100
8x130
12x150

Rdelt Cable Fly
3 or 4 sets

dips
4x12-15

Rdelts between dips
3x8-12x15s

Upright Row superset
3x12x90 followed by 3x8x15s side delt raise

Side Delt Cable Fly
2x12x10
2x12x15

Side Delt Machine
15x25
15x35
11x55

Had to end the session quick in 1 hour because I was running out of time before kempo. Ate a tupperware meal at 11:30 then went to kempo and had one of the most insane cardio sessions ever. First we did 2 sets of box jumps 15 and 21 reps, then 2 sets of pullups, 10/6, then 20 sec on 10 sec off for 11 rounds freestyle hitting the bag, 15 kettle bell swings with 35 lbs, then 2 3 minute rounds of sparring. Then another set of box jumps (15) and pullups (15), then 3 mins of ground and pound on the bag, 2 3 min rounds of ground and pound (grappling and striking), then to finish up some more box jumps and 1 arm kettlebell swings with 20 lbs. My heart rate was going crazy and I sweat a ton. I drank almost between 1/2 and 3/4 gallons of water in the 3 hours between the gym at 10:30 to finishing kempo at 1:30. Crazy stuff. Then went to a family picnic, wasn't rlly much clean food so I just ate some chickpeas and watermellon, which was the only clean thing clean, this was between 2-3, then made myself 8 oz tillapia and 1 cup of whole grain pasta when i got home at 3:30. about to eat again now that it's 6:30, peace, today is a great day.
 
7-27-15: Legs

Squat
8xbar
8x135
5x185
5x225
3x275
3x315
3x345
3x365
5x315

Seated Calf Raise
12x135
15x225
2x12x275
12x315
12x275

Donkey Calf Machine
2x12x120

1 leg standing ham curl
12x30
9x50
8x60
8x70

2 leg laying ham curl
8x50
8x90
8x120

Vertical Leg Press
20x135
12x185
15x225

Good Girl Bad girl machine
3 sets of 30 each

Sit ups
2x20 contraction style

Elliptical
20 mins 136 avg hr 200 cals burnt

Very good workout today, I was surprised because I woke up looking very flat and watery today, despite eating perfectly yesterday, which was demotivating, but when I got to the gym I felt motivated to fix it. Idk if it's the hip mobility from agile 8 which I did on thurs and sat last week, or the fact I followed ben pakulski's advice and did a few light sets of ham curls before squats, or if it was the box jumps from kempo, but my squat felt great. Actually, the 15 knees to elbows (I think I forgot to mention on Saturday's log post) had my abs rlly sore yesterday and probably aided with stability today. But overall my squat felt great, strong, tight, and perfect technique, I think it's a combination of everything plus the deloadish week I took last week, and the fact my hams have been getting some good consistent work the last few weeks. Warming up the hams with light weight was great too, will def always do this now, for deads too. Hams r important.

Oddly enough I got a ton of activation in my outer sweep aka vastus lateralis, which I usually don't get. The first time I did low bar squats this summer, where my form felt equally perfect with 315, I got that same activation, but since today I used 50 lbs heavier, my VL is really really sore right now. I love going heavy (when my technique is good), squatting today was really fun, I'm glad I decided to reduce the volume and go heavier on my power movements. Feels really really good. Very happy with today's session.
 
7-29-15: Bench

rdelt row
12x35
12x45
12x55

Incline Bench
185x6
195x8
215x10 GREAT
195x10

Face Pull
2x12x120
10x150

Dips
12/12/12/15 with rdelt flyes between sets

Flye Machine
20x100
20x130
20x150
20x170

Tricep Extensions
12x40
12x50
12x60
12x70
12x60
1 arm
2x8x20
12x10

Elliptical
20 min

Pretty damn good workout today! I wouldn't have expected today's workout to have gone so well because I went fishing and threw up on the boat yesterday, which threw my diet off pretty hard, and I woke up late today and had a small breakfast, but I felt very strong on everything, like I had great leverage. Been looking watery and flat lately which had me concerned but apparently my strength is more than there lol. Very happy with that incline bench PR, previous PR is 8 reps I think. Workout was short but good, seems to be the trend lately, I'm glad I'm following that suggestion and not doing too much, just focusing on the more important movements. But I feel like I switched to doing too much over time because when I was cutting hard I couldn't go as heavy, so I had to make up for that somehow, I did overdo it a bit though. Now I can go heavy and gain well from that, while doing lots of cardio and leaning out, I'm eating about 300 carbs a day on average, some days 200 other days (more rare) 400+, but most days around 300. Protein is high as well, 200-250g per day, fats are usually fairly low (50) but some days, esp low carb days, higher (100-150). I'm eating about 2500-3000 cals a day but burning a lot thru cardio, cardio after lifting burns about 200 cals, kempo I'd estimate burns 500-600 cals, and I'm going to kempo about "three and a half" times per week. I think my body is just watery because it's adjusting to the diet/creatine/cardio, plus being in SD, plus the heat, but soon it will prob dry out on its own. There's no way I gained fat, but the wateriness is helping a lot with strength, creatine+bloat is a miracle. It's fun lifting heavy again!
 
7-30-15: Back

BB Row
135x8
185x8
225x8
275x4
245x6
185x12
225 felt so easy that I decided to go too heavy, after 275 my technique felt kinda fucked on the rest of my sets/exercises

Weighted Chin
2x6xBW
6x25
5x45

DB Row
8x35
8x45
8x60
8x75
8x85

Close Grip Pulldown
8x130
8x150

Lever Row Machine
8x1 plate
8x2 plate
12x2.5 plate

Pullover Machine
12x60
12x75
12x90
12x90
15x105

Concentration Curl
16x20
16x25
16x35

EZ Bar Curl
4x8x75

Cable "Front Double Bi" Curl
2x12x30

Ok Workout today, I felt really strong so I went too heavy on BB rows which fucked with my technique and made me not able to produce maximum tension in the lats this workout. Oh well, still got some ok work in, now I know better for next time, work up slow on BB rows.
 
8-1-15: Shoulders

Forgot to log this but basically just did a few exercises for rear delt, a few for side delt, but wasn't really feeling it too well, then I did close grip bench press 2x8x225 so that was decent, some more tris, some forearms, then that's it, went to kempo and had a good cardio/conditioning workout

Today though I had a really crazy ass boxing session from Ramzi Hassan, he was lightweight champion in the 90s, he's a family friend and also my friend's dad. I started with treadmill, 13 mins of running then some hiit, to warmup, then punching combinations till exhaustion, some jumping drills and some push up drills, then every ab exercise imaginable. This is the hardest ab workout I've ever had, and a ton of cardio too, crazy stuff. He offered to have me train with him 3 times a week since he sees potential in me as a boxer, but I have the hunger a boxer like him does towards boxing, towards powerlifting and bodybuilding, so I'm gonna keep martial arts as my side hobby, lifting is my passion.

I also ate 4000 cals today to make up for the ~800 i probably burnt during that session. 1400 cals of it was in n out, 2 double doubles and a fries!

8-3-15: Squat/legs

Squat
3x315
3x355
3x375:

Cleans
3x3x185

Leg press
3x20x225

Good girl bad girl
3x30x60/70/80

Decent workout today. I've been feeling incredibly fatigued especially after that crazy boxing session yesterday, I thought I could eat my way into recovery but it looks like I'll just have to lower the crap out of my volume. Was happy with today's workout, even though I had been planning for weeks to do deadlifts today, I decided to do cleans instead and do deads on thurs, to avoid injury. No reason to attempt a deadlift rep pr with 455 while cutting, fatigued, with sore legs abs and back, it's just a stupid idea, even though I wanted to. Friday.

8-5-15: Chest!

Rdelt row
4 sets

Incline Bench
185x5
205x5
225x9!!! 3 rep PR:

face pull
4-5 sets

Dips
BWx3x12
BW+15x12

Cable tricep extension
6x12x40/50/40/40/30/30

alternating with

concentration curls
7x16(8 each side)x25s/25s/35s/30s/25s/20s/20s

Elliptical
10 mins increasing intensity 140-160 HR

I made a mistake today. I left for the gym 30 mins late, at 2:30 instead of 2:00 and wow, it made a huge difference traffic wise. Normally if I leave at 2 I get there at 2:15, but traffic was terrible and I didn't get there till 3:00 lol. So I had to do a shortened session because traffic also gets pretty bad if I leave after 4:00, I ended up lifting from 3-3:55 and leaving at 4:05. Very happy with the PR though! I was barely expecting to get 8. Got some really good tri and bi work after, though I didn't do more for chest beccause everythign I tried after dips made my left shoulder hurt.
 
8-7-15: Deadlifts

All I did on Friday was deadlift lol, tried to do some pullovers, some pulldowns, some curls afterwards but this set broke down every muscle fiber in my body it felt like. dayum:

Deadlift
135x3
225x3
315x3
405x2
455x2
495x2
455x9: in case you missed the earlier link :P HUGE PR!!!
455x1 (form degraded significantly on the 9 rep set, in fact it even started out bad, so I did 1 good rep to enforce good technique. it felt like a max because i was so fatigued from that big pr set

And then tried to do some shit to no avail lol. Didn't workout Sat or Sun so today (Monday) I was primed to hit some heavy ass lifts:

8-10-15: Full Body "Pre Vacation" Workout

Squat
barx5
135x5
225x3-5
275x3
315x3
395x5!!!! HUGE PR!!!

Bench
barx15
135x12
185x6
225x5
275x6 good set, no video, gotta have my music, and I don't look swole when I film my bench from the ground lol. I'll be hitting some bigger numbers and posting vids after I get back from vacation

Pendlay Row
135x8
185x8
225x8 decent form
245x5 sloppy
155x20 reg bb rows (without resetting bar on ground, constant tension)

attempted some pulling exercises
nothing significant, just some bullshit pullovers, face pulls and behind neck pulldowns lol

Side Laterals
12x15s
10x25s

Rdelt fly machine
12x75

DB seated Overhead Press
3 sets of 5 both arms then 10 alternating (5 each side) with 35 lbs. trying to stimulate some overhead stability adaptations

Chest Flye machine
12x120
12x150

Bicep curl
2x12x95

Tricep skullcrusher
12x95

Concentration curl
16x30
16x35

Tricep kickback
2x12x15 both arms

Seated Calf Raise
20x135
15x225
20x225

Good girl bad girl machine
1 set of 30 with 80 lbs on each

Abs
20 incline sit ups
30 russian twists
15 incline sit ups with a 25 lb plate

Elliptical
20 mins 149 avg hr 158 top hr 200 cals burnt

Good workout today, gonna be out of town for a family weeding weds-mon so I don't know how good the hotel gym will be. Incidentally I also passed my NASM certification test on Saturday so I after I graduate I can become a personal trainer to start my life in the real world with a decent paying job, that I'd be good at, with plenty of room for advancement. Overall pretty excited for what's to come, gymwise, even if certain things in my personal life aren't going too well.

But anyways, back to what I was saying earlier, I hit some heavy lifts and a whole body session (with what little energy I had after heavy squat bench and rows) today because I won't be in a real gym for pretty much the rest of the week. It'll be a good break for my body. Looking forward to getting back in though!
 
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8-19-15: Squats n Deads n Legs

Squat
barx8
135x5
225x5
275x3
315x3
365x3
405x4!!!! alltime PR!

Deadlift
barx5
135x3
225x3
315x3
405x3
455x3
505x2
465x5:

Leg Press
225x20
315x20
405x12
495x12
585x12
635x12
675x12

1 leg ham curl
12x40
2x8x60
8x70

Seated Calf Raise
1 plate x 20
2 plate x 15
3 plate x 12
4 plate x 8
3 plate x 12
2 plate x 15

Standing Calf
120x12
135x12

Hammer Curl
2x12x45s
16x55s alternating (8 each side)

Elliptical
20 mins at average 149hr (range 135-162) 210 cals burnt

Fun day today, first time back in the gym since last monday, felt weak and lazy at first but after warming up I felt good. Pretty stoked on my giant squat PR! Deads were nothing special but I'm planning on increasing by 10 lbs per week and doing 5-8 reps, though past 495 just 5 reps, gotta increase my deadlift frequency without sacrificing too much intensity. Doin em after squats will help me be more conservative.
 
8-20-15: Chest tris

Rdelt DBs
12x15s
12x25s
3x15x35s

Incline Bench
barx12
135x8
185x5
225x3
255x2
275x1 PR
285x0
275x1:

DB Bench
50sx20/12

Dips
1x12

Flyes
12/12/15

Tris
5 or 6 sets

Bis
5 or 6 sets.

Then went to kempo. Kinda sux goin to kempo early on thursdays and having to rush my bench workout but im just doin it this week and next week because I have a belt test next saturday.

Today's workout was ok, I didn't feel too good but oh well, hit 275 the first time but the vid sucked so I tried 285 but this dude walked right in front of my camera! And I missed the rep, maybe I could have gotten it if I hadn't been distracted. So I hit 275 again and got a decent vid. I'll be doing a 4-8 week wave of flat bench now so we'll see how that goes. I'll prob do 3-4 weeks then a deload, then another 2-4 weeks, then switch it up either rep wise or go back to incline. I seem to get good carry over so maybe I"ve finally found a way to increase my bench lol.
 
8-22-15: Back

Pullover
12x25 laying across bench
12x35 laying across bench
12x50
8x70
5x105
8x90
12x60 laying across bench

or something like that, not 100% sure what I did after 5x105

Lever Row Hammer Strength
12x135
2x12x225

(machine pullover)
12x40

Parallel Bar Pulldown
12x120
2x8x150

Cable Rows
12x100
10x120
8x150
8x180

Zottman Curl (db bicep curl on way up, rotate dumbbell under control, reverse curl on way down)
16x20s alt
16x25s alt
reversed (rev curl up reg curl down, also called "hammer of thor") 16x20s

Grip exercise (holding barbell behind back for time)
12 sec x 135
12 sec x 225
4 sec x 315
14 sec x 275

And that's it for today, then I went to kempo and did 3 sets of box jumps, 1 arm kettlebell swings, jumping pull ups, and some other exercises here and there, plus 3 rounds of sparring and 3 rounds of hitting the bag, great workout, at first I was kind of fighting like shit but at the end I did well. I'm tiiired after all this!
 
8-24-15: Shoulders and Arms

Rdelt Flye
12x20
12x25
12x30

Behind neck Pulldowns (for rdelt)
12x100
12x120
12x140

Rope Face Pull
12x80

Upright Row
12x90
12x110
12x120
12x110

Side Delt Raise
12x20s
12x25s
12x30s
10x35s
12x20s strict

Side Delt Machine
12x25
12x35
12x45
12x55
15x65

Barbell Seated Press
6x95
5x115 both sets irritated left shoulder so i went dbs

DB OHP
45sx10/16/16 alternating (5/8/8 each side)

Cable Tricep Ext
20x20
12x40
12x50
12x60
8x70
15x40

Zottman Curl
3x16x25s

Cable Curl
8x50
20x30

Elliptical
15 mins avg hr 149

Dips
BW x 20/15

Chins
5 reps

Tri kickbacks
2x12

incline bench preacher curl 1 arm
20x20 both sides

Good workout today. Got an insane delt pump and decent arm pump esp forearms. Weighed in at 211 after my whole workout.
 
Woops I've been lagging on logging the last 2 workouts. Before I hit back today, I better get these two down in the books.

8-26-15: Legs

Squat
325x3
375x3
415x3 10 lb PR. No video, needed my music! I prob should have though because my form was def off...

Deadlift
465x2
515x2
475x5: vid because I never have my phone in my pocket on deads haha:

Seated Calf Raise
3x15x225

Calf Press
12x95
12x145
12x165
12x145

good girl bad girl machine
4x30 both

Good workout wednesday, I was feeling pretty overtrained though so I'm cutting down on the volume a bit. It's probably because I've been going to kempo 4 days a week which definitely cuts into my recovery ability, I've been working hard to prepare for my belt test, plus i'm not eating enough carbs. Thankfully today, the day of my belt test, I've been hungry as a mofo and already had 3 small meals between waking up early at 6:30 am (for the test) and right now, 11 am. Normally I've only had 1 medium meal by this time. But back to thursday:

8-27-15: Bench chest shoulders tris

Brought my 13 yr old brother to the gym on thurs, it's his last week of summer and my mom and I thought it would be fun for him to get a little workout in with me. I just had him do light weights, high reps, and stabilization tempo (4/1/2), but I also had to modify my workout and slow down a bit to accommodate and teach him. I think it's good though that I did less because it makes it easier for my body to recover.

Rear Delt Machine Warmup
2 or 3 sets

Bench dumbbells for my bro
225x8
245x8
225x11 (12 prob would have been failure)

Face Pull
3 sets

Fly Machine
20x120
20x150 + 8 push ups
20x180 + 8 push ups (workin dat stability-endurance superset training along with the bro)

At this point I had my bro do some lunges, but he was getting pretty tired. I guess soccer endurance doesn't necessarily carry over to lifting haha. So he took a break and I hit some light delts and a little more chest n tris

Upright Row
3x12x90

Rdelt Fly
3 sets

Dips
2x12

Zottman Curl alternating
24x15s
20x25s
16x40s
16x35s

It was nice going heavy on these, with the longer rest periods and lower volume I was able to push the weight a bit. I still prefer keeping it light and super controlled though. My brother did leg extensions and leg curls while I did these, he wanted to get some more legs since his focus is soccer.

Tricep Extension superset with Tricep Kickbacks
3 or 4 supersets

And then we were running late to meet with my mom for lunch so we cut it off there. It was nice taking it a little slower and lighter and supersetting on tris because I actually got some really good contractions in the long head. Overall felt good with Thursday's workout afterwards, even though during it I was a bit frustrated at the slowness lol.

Today I had my belt test which was a nice way to start the day, from 7:30 to 9:00 am. Got to the rank of Green with Brown Stripe in kempo, my first belt test since I left for college 3 years ago. Looking forward to pursuing black belt after I graduate.
 
8-29-15: Back

Pullover with DB
8x25 across bench
8x40 across
8x65
12x75
12x85
10x95
8x50across bench again

Low Row Machine
12x135
8x225
12x185

close grip pulldown
8x120
2x8x150

High row machine
12x135
12x185
15x225
15x275

Vertical Pull Machine
12x135
2x12x225

Biceps and Forearms
about 10 sets

good workout!
 
Had an ok shoulder workout on monday, and had a crappy leg workout today. I just couldn't get my core tight so I stopped at 275 on squats, my right lower back was hurting. Managed to push thru deads pain free, 505x1 flew up very easily, but 525x2 was hard, couldn't keep my core tight, and 485x5, my grip was slipping and my form got fucked up pretty bad, my back contorting and shit. Still got in the sets so that's better than nothing, but I almost wish I did nothing because today's workout sucked. I took a muscle relaxant on saturday which may be the reason my core and grip felt weak, residual effects. Bummer, oh well, at first I was really bothered by today's bad session but in the grand scheme of things, it is what it is and I probably just jumped into heavy lifting a little too quickly and burnt myself out. So tomorrow I'm gonna do a low rep medium volume bench workout to work on my technique a bit, and a few assistance exercises, sat I'll start incorporating some front squats for more core/quad/staying upright work, and then I'll ease into a routine similar to the 3 day routine I did last year with great results, run it for a few weeks.
 
9-3-15: Bench

Rdelt Lateral Raise
12x15s
12x25s
12x35s

Bench
255x3/5/5/8/3

Incline bench
3x12x135

Btn pulldown
2x12x120

Chest Flyes
2 sets machine
2 or 3 sets cable

Tris n forearms
3 sets tris
1 set forearm

Elliptical
20 mins 200 cals 130 avg hr

forearms n tris
2 or 3 sets forearms
2 sets tris

Kinda meh workout today. My bench was really uneven, my left shoulder is just so much tighter than my right one. There are so many factors that go into that, playing guitar, playing computer games, holding the left punch out when practicing traditional basics in kempo class, getting submitted mostly on the right arm/shoulder (loosening it up) in jiu jitsu, the fact the steering wheel is on the left side so the left elbow has nowhere to go, smothered by the door, when driving, having more neuromuscular control on the right due to being right handed, etc etc. It's kind of funny, and kind of infuriating, lol. This world seems to be just designed for uneven shoulder problems in a way. But whatever, I'll figure it out. Sometimes I can get it even, maybe just today was worse because I played guitar in the morning when I normally don't.

So I guess I'm in that end of summer lifting slump. No use getting pissed about shitty workouts and my lack of intensity. I just gotta take it easy for a bit, let this "seasonal" mood pass, and let my cns recover.
 
9-5-15

Front Squat
8xbar
5x135
3x185
3x205
3x225
3x225
3x225
3x225 hi bar back squat
2x3x275 hi bar back squat
3x225
and maybe another set of 3x225 i think

Pull Ups
3x5

Upwards lever row hammer strength
12x135
12x225
12x315

Lat Pulldown
3x8x120 superset with behind back pullover thingy 3x12-20x25 lbs

Cable Pullover
10x40

Rdelts
3 or 4 sets superset with machine overhead presses light and hi reps, just trying to fix my overhead movement pattern on the left side

Side Raise
5 sets

Stretching
5 sets of 30 sec on left front delt 3 sets of 30 sec right front delt

Decent workout. Got a lot of good quad volume in which was nice, but not very high intensity so easy to recover from. I think I'm gonna do this to warm up for deadlifts on my deadlift day in this new training style. Then I hit some back which was ok, and some ok delts, but my left front delt was getting pretty tight.
 
9-7-15: laboring with da weight on labor day

Squat
3x315
3x335
3x355
3x365
5x365

Bench
3x225
3x245
3x255
3x265
3x275
7x285!!!! HUGE PR!!!

BB Row
5x225
5x235
5x245
8x255 PR, definitely haven't done this many reps with this lol, decent form too

Pullover
10x20
9x35

Seated Rdelt Raise
2x12x20s

Some Weird Roelly Winklaar shoulder exercise that looks like an arnold press mixed with a side raise
2x12x15s

Zottman Curl
16x20s
16x35s

rope face pull very light focus on pulling apart rope
3x15x30

Hammer Curl
12x45s

seated calf raise
4x12x2 plate

Tibialis machine Just discovered this thing, where has it been all my life
3x15x35 lbs

Tricep ext
1x12

Loz Grip Exercise aka double overhand hold for time behind the back
12 sec x 135
12 sec x 225
2x20 sec x 275

And that's it! Great workout today, it was amazing to actually have a good workout where I felt driven and motivated for a change! Squats were aight, just trying to get my technique back on those, and go higher volume/frequency, lower intensity, better form for a while. Then on bench I was gonna do the same thing, I was just increasing by 10 per set and doing triples, but 275 felt incredibly light, I was planning on stopping at 3x275 but I decided to do 3x285, well that felt easy so I did another rep, and another, and another, and before I knew it I'd gotten a huge PR! I wasn't paying attention to how much I was bouncing but I don't think I bounced very much if at all, so this is a great 10 lb pr done stricter than 275x7 was about a year ago! Talk about unexpected, I felt like shit this morning. Although the only bench set where my form was completely even left and right I think was 275. But I got some good lat activation which helped immensely on my bench.

Then on rows I was doing the same thing, the original plan was 255x5 but I got all jacked up to my music and did 255x8 with pretty good lat/rhomboid activation. Then did some other light stuff. This is a gains workout right here! Lookin forward to making some real gains again now haha! In 2 days I'm gonna do my incline bench workout, time to get this 3 day routine on the road. This routine gave me amazing gains last time I did it.
 
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9-9-15: Upper body

Incline bench
5x225
2 or 3 sets of 3x245
3x255 prob a PR!

Pull Ups Strictly lats (i have a tendency to use a lot of front delts and shit on this)
BWx8/6/5

Chest Press Machine
3 light sets

Hi Lever Row
12x135
12x225

Chest Flye
2 sets

Vertical LAt Pull Machine
12x135
12x225

Then I think I did some bis and tris, and some elliptical for 25 mins, and stretching for 10 mins. was pretty damn good
 
9-11-15: Deads

Front Squat
3x3x225

Hi bar Squat
2x3x275 beltless
5x275 belt

Deadlift
535x3:
495x5 tng:
225x12 stiff legs... stupid idea lol my back was fried

At this point my head was woozy as fuck. Took a break and stretched/foam rolled my back for 10-15 mins

Elliptical
10 mins

Rdelt and Side delts
2 sets each I think

Pullover
10x25
10x35
12x45

T Bar Row Chest Supp
3x12x135

Behind Back Standing Barbell Pullover thing
2x20x25

Barbell External Rotation
20x25

Leg Press
20x135
20x225
20x315
20x405

Leg Curl
2 sets

Calves
3 sets seated
3 sets calf press with 135

Tibialis
2 or 3 sets

I think that's it. Crazy deads today, couldn't do shit afterwards lol, was planning on doing delts n stuff. We'll see where things go. I'm going to do a deload and just do speed deads next week, then the week after see how many reps I can do wtih 545! The grip work has been helping my deadlift immensely, sometimes I round my back to compensate when my grip is weak.
 
9-15-15

Squat
3x3x365 First felt pretty hard but the second felt lighter and the third felt pretty light but my headphone got caught on my knee twice which threw it off lol

Bench
225x3
245x5
265x10 first 2 or 3 reps paused! Crazy strength and control, gained strength out of nowhere lately.

Back Machines
3 sets horizontal lever row
3 sets vertical lever pulldown

Tris and Bis
5 or 6 sets tris
3 or 4 sets bis

calves and tibialis
4 sets tibialis
5 sets calves

And I think around this time I ran out of time because I had to go home and eat then go to kempo. Good workout, Legs are just super beat up from deadlifts the other day hence the weakness. I love the gains on this program but I ate terrible this weekend, I mean I got enough protein in but not nearly enough carbs, I was just on the go the whole time and just had giant chicken meals on sat, and went to a sushi buffet sun. After the buffet I weighed 221 lbs I was so bloated, plus creatine. But today I'm between 212-215. Making some good gains by clean bulking on highish calories, oats, rice, pasta, chicken, beef, yogurt, eggs, lentils vegetables are the bulk of my diet. Lentils and pasta make me gain weight like crazy lol, and I seem to be staying lean.

Won't be able to hit the gym till Monday, my membership expired today. This may be the recovery I need, I'm just gonna be going to kempo twice thurs and doing some pull ups and dips at the park on Friday, school gym doesn't open till Monday unfortunately. Rest should be good though, lookin forward to Monday.
 
9-21-15: Squat/Legs

Squat
315x3
365x3
405x3 paused each rep! wow was not expecting this, I was just going to do a single then 365 for 2 more sets but 405 felt so light!
345x5
315x5

Front Squat
135x5
225x5
275x3
225x3 or 5

double over hand behind back Grip Holds
2x20 sec x 315 PR!

Leg Press
20x1-4 plates (1 set at each amt of plates)
35x5 plates

1 leg ham curl
3x12x25

Seated Calf Raise
4x12x50 lbs

Great workout yesterday. Worked out with a friend who lifts at a slower pace so we had some long rest periods, but that's probably why squats felt so easy. Also, its great training at my school's rec center again, I think I have way better workouts there than world gym even though worlds is a way better gym, because I have a lot more friends and know most people, so I'm in a better mood when I train there. Bout to hit it again, benching, gotta get ready now!
 
9-22-15: Bench


Bench
225x8
255x5
275x8 PR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
275x3 slingshot
295x3 slingshot
315x4 slingshot
225x9
super fatigued at this point, took away from the rest of the workout doing such hi volume on bench lol

Rdelt Fly
3 or 4 sets

DB Incline bench
80sx12/8

Flys superset with rdelt flys
4 sets

JM Press
3 sets

Pushdowns
4 sets

Double PH Kickbacks with DBs
3 sets

Curl variations
4 or 5 sets

Powerlifterish workout today, been working out with my buddy who I'm gonna do a meet with. Was interesting trying out his slingshot after hitting a bench pr, i dont think im ever using the slingshot again cuz it kinda fucks up my bench technique and def fucks up my chest activation and puts it more on front delts, but it was cool to experience 315 for the first time in a while haha. I actually feel confident I could hit it for a single, double, or even triple raw. But I'm not rushing there, building up to it and using reps which always works for me!
 
9-24-15: Deads

Deads
3x1x405 speed singles
3x455 speed reps

random shit
for 2 hours, bullshitting around lol

crazy lat machine i wish i discovered 2 hours earlier
10 sets probably, 2-3 with the whole stack

ok workout, ripped the scab on my shin from the 535x3 and 495x5 deads the week prior, and didn't want to go too heavy. im deadlifting again on thurs and the scab will def not be healed, so I'm gonna have to find out how to not scrape the shit out of my shins. gotta hit dat 600 soon!

9-25-15: Shoulders

rear delts
3-5 sets cables
3-5 sets dumbbells
3 sets face pulls superset with btn pulldowns

Side Delts
5 sets lateral raises i think

Behind back barbell pullover thing
3 sets with 20 lbs

Standing DB shoulder press
12x35s
12x45s
12x35s

I think that's what I did but I feel like I did more. The next day I went in and did some light bis and tris just goin for a pump, then hit some other weak body parts etc. my shoulder has been messed up since the slingshot lol tried to rehab and stretch it. also did cardio that saturday, the 26th. Bodyweight was 206 or 207

9-28-15: Squat

Squat
3x3x365, technique felt kinda off and my left front delt has been so tight from that fucking slingshot, which fucked with my set up a bit, couldn't engage my left lat.

Leg Press
some lgiht bs sets

calf press
2 sets with 225 i think

Just a shitty day. Diet/appetite and sleep were off all weekend so it makes sense I felt like shit. Oddly enough I weighed 209 despite hardly eating enough this weekend.

9-29-15: Bench! My first day feeling somewhat normal!

Bench
3x275
2x5x255
left front delt was so damn tight and it totally messed up my set up. Just gotta let it recover and relax I guess. My training partner told me my head was way to the right which makes sense cuz my right sternocleidomastoid and trap are tight, then my left front delt is tight. fucks with everything! lol. Just workin my mobility when I can and trying to reprogram my movements and posture to fix it. It takes time. Shitty thing is some days my bench is fine, like that 275x8 before that goddamn slingshot lol

Rdelts had to hammer that shit to combat my pisseningly fucked up left frontdelt. NEVER doing slingshot again!!! Nah I'm not hating on it it's just not for me at the moment, till my delts are 100% fine.
4 or 5 sets btn pulldown

Incline DB Press alternating
16x50s
16x70s
16x85s
16x85s

Cable FLy
12x30
15x30
15x45
15x60
3x20x30 mad pump

EZ Bar Curl
12x35
12x55
12x75
12x85
12x85
2x15x55 reverse curl

Tricep Pushdown Superset with 2 arm kickbacks (phil heath exercise)
4 or 5 supersets

Hanging leg raise
2x10 strict form. just read an article on these lol, tried out that new technique and def liked it.

Stretching and foam rolling
about 10 mins worth

Cardio
15 mins elliptical

Good workout today. First day I felt semi normal and ate semi normal. Just gotta get my eating habits back on track, once my metabolism gets used to 6 meals a day again its onnnn.
 
10-5-15: Scab Tear Day

Squat with thick bar
365x3
365x3
365x5 last 2 reps paused

Behind back double overhand Grip Holds with thick bar
135x30 sec
225x30 sec
275x20 sec
225x20 sec

Standing Calf
3x12

1 leg ham curl
3x12

Today was kinda meh. My back has been feeling kinda crappy from all the box lifting at work combined with not having much appetite and not eating enough. I'll get back up there though, today I actually managed to eat slightly higher cals throughout the day, upped my rice to 1.5 cups and switched to basmati. But even with my back feeling iffy, squats went pretty well, grip holds were ok, actually my grip was pretty strong but I think I need to lean forward more to minimize the pressure on my spine, which is already not doin amazing. But what killed my workout today was I was lowering the 225 bar from the pins so my friend could do stiff leg deads, then I decided to just do 1 deadlift rep for fun, and then I checked my scab not thinking it would be torn, and what do I see? blood streaming from it lol. It was actually kinda funny but kinda shitty cuz now I have to deal with this shit again. I'm pretty determined to hit deads on Thurs though so we'll see what happens. Just can't do anything stupid, if my back hurts and my shin is still fucked I might have to go a 3rd week without deadlifting heavy.
 
Oh and I forgot to log thurs and fri of last week, thurs I had a killer back day bodybuilding style, no deads, then fri I did shoulders and had a pretty good workout with a good pump.
 
10-6-15: Bench

Bench
barx25
135x10
185x5
225x5
255x3
275x3
300x4 PR!:

Cable Flyes
5 or 6 sets

Dips
1x10
2x15

tri set: reverse curl to skullcrusher to reg curl
45 lbs x 15/15/15
65 lbs x 15/15/12
75 lbs x 15/15/8

Tricep Supersets: Pushdown to overhead extension supersetted with Curl variations
3x12/12x50 with v bar to 3x16 alternating curl variations
2x12/8 with rope to 1x16 alternating concentration curl with back against pad

Phil Heath Tri exercise
10 lb dbs x 12/8

Bench dips
2x12

Dylan exercise aka standing behind back barbell pullover thing
20x20

Elliptical for 20 mins

Good workout today, some solid shit!
 
I think I forgot to mention I got a rep pr on bench on Tues, 225x14. forgot to put it in after 300x4
10-8-15: Back Day

Pendlay Rows
3x8x225 no belt
15x155 bb rows (no hitting floor)

Supinated Pulldowns
12x120
12x150
8x180 drop set 4x120
12x130

Cable Rows
10x120
10x155
10x190
10x220

Cable Pullover
3 or 4 x 12

DB Pullover
12x30 across
12x45 across
12x65
12x90
12x50 across

Dylan exercise
2x15x20

Zottman Curl
24x20s
20x25s
16x30s
24x30s

Water pumps 4 abs
30 reps

Elliptical
28 mins 302 cals 144 avg hr

Good back day today. Takin it a bit easy. Calories slowly goin up: BW 208.
 
10-10-15: Delts

Rear Delts
3 sets cable rdelts
4 sets db rdelts
4 sets cable rdelts
2 sets rdelt machine

side delts
3 sets upright rows
3 sets side raise

push press
135x5
155x5
175x4

Hi Bar squat
225x5 just for da blood in da legs

alternating db ohp
3 sets with 30 lbbers

Front delts
5 or 6 light sets tryna improve my neuromuscular control

Dylan exercise
3 or 4 sets

Biceps
3 sets

Side to side elliptical
12 mins

Decent little workout today. Def stimulated some growth. My shoudlers actually feel really good because I isolated some front delt, maybe my shoulder issues aren't a lack of rear delts but a lack of purposeful front delt training. Everything I do I'm trying to not use front delts, whether I'm training chest or overhead pressing or doing back, I'm trying to work my chest, r/side delt, or back, yet my front delts always seem to take some of it. I've gotten better at not using front delt because before I would get way more front delt than anything else when I did chest, overhead work, or even pulling motions. I've gotten a lot better. But my side delts are so uneven and my front delts, esp the left one, still always get pumped and always start hurting when I do delts, and sometimes when I do chest. Well they were def feeling the push presses today but doing some supersets of front delts with dylan exercise was good. Anyways, I'm feeling pretty good about training. I mightdo some cardio and maybe some arms and stretching tomorrow, but then my next day is tues, squat bench and row, then thurs incline bench chest back arms, saturday deadlifts and shoulders. SEENTHOL aoaooaoaoao
 
10-14-15: Gettin back into it

Squat
3x3x365

Bench
275x4/3/5lp

BB Row
185x5
225x5
245x5
255x8
185x12 drop set 135x8

Upright Row
12x95

EZ Bar curl
12x95

Standing Calf Raise
3x12x120

Zottman Curl
2x16x22.5s

Hanging leg raise legs bent
1x10

Decline sit ups
6x15
12xbw
20 russian twist

Side to side elliptical
20 mins

Decent workout today. I got really sick Sunday night and was pretty damn sick monday, sick yesterday, and just kinda sick today, but had to hit the gym because I haven't since Sat! Felt kinda weak but had a decent workout. Squats were a bitch, first set was even but buttwink. Second and third set had no buttwink but were uneven and slow. Oh well, it'll be better when I'm not sick. I warmed up for squats by doing some light ohp which I think tightened my left front delt too much, which impacted everything else, on bench my technique was super fucked, warmup sets were a grind, then, first 3 reps of set 1 were good i wanted 5, but the 4th rep went up super uneven so I racked it. Second set I got 3 but my left front delt was fuckin everything up. So I stretched a bit and did some rear delts then set 3 was good and I got 5 plus last one paused. BB Rows were ok but my left front delt was fuckin shit up again lol, pretty much everything even curls were fucked up by my left delt. But whatever, I'll hit my upper body day on Fri and I know it'll be better. Just gotta stretch that damn delt.
 
10-16-15: Getting back into it part 2:

Incline Bench
5x185
4 or 5 x 225 rest 20-30 sec 2x225
8x185
one of those sets was followed by 6x35s dbs

Pull Ups
3x8

Chest Flyes
15x15
15x30
15x45
15x60
8x75
15x45
15x30

Close grip Pulldowns
3x8x150

Tris and Bis
4 sets

17 mins of side to side elliptical

Ok workout today, still feel shitty and weak from being sick, my whole body feels like I'm about to get a cramp all the time and my neuromuscular control is shit lol. Plus my left front delt is still tight from 2 days ago. Good news is randomly I had a great ROm on chest flyes and good contraction too despite the left tight front delt. Maybe incline bench helped activate it pretty well. Gym was crowded so I grabbed incline while it was open and didn't get to do rear delts first. But yeah, overall I feel like I"m gonna make some good gains from this session, despite being a short and weak session it felt pretty solid pumpwise and work wise. My cardio is getting better but my work capacity sucks, but I still think I'm gonna make some gains.
 
10-18-15: Strongman ish workout

Deadlift
133x5
221x3
311x3
401x3
451x3
491x2
541x1
581x1
601x0
495x1
Deficit dead 405x6

Push Press
135x3
155x3
175x3
195x3
205x3
185x3
185x5

Squats
5x135
3x225
5x275
2x5x305

Pullovers
30x8 across
40x8 across
60x12
85x12
50x3 across

seated calves
5x12

1 arm overhead clean and press (press is 1 arm clean is both)
45x12
60x5
80x5

alternating db shoulder press (standing)
24x45s
22x50s

BB Front raise superset with dylan exercise
15x20
15x30
15x30

Tricep double kickbacks
2x12

20 min cardio
stretching

Really good strong workout today. Last night I had a realization that I'm sick of powerlifting and bodybuilding routines so I'm gonna train strongman ish style for a while. Kind of. Just when I feel like it. I'm sick of routine in general so I'll just establish days and do whatever style of training I feel like that day, till I find something I want to commit to routine wise. Having fun and making improvements.

Nice lifts today, I had fun maxing out my deadlift even tho my form turned to shit. I realized I have such trouble locking out so I should train some below the knee rack pulls and see if that helps. Fun squat practice and heavy shoulder stuff today too, eventually killed off my delts and called it a day.
 
10-20-15: Arms

Forearm curls
15x25 lbs seated
10x45 lbs seated 10x45 standing 10x45 seated 10x45 standing 10x45 seated
10x45 standing 10x45 seated
10x45 seated

Reverse curls 10 reps wrist pointing down 10 reps wrist pointing up
20x45
20x55
20x55
20x55
20x55

Hammer Curl
12x20s
12x30s
12x40s
12x30s
16x55s alternating across body

Tricep extension
u bar
20x35 down 8x35 overhead
12x35 down 6x35 overhead
12x35 down 4x35 overhead
12x35 down
rope
12x35 down 4x35 overhead
8x50 down
8x65 down
12x35 down 5x35 overhead

Bench dips
12xbw

Skullcrushers
12x45
12x65
12x75
12x75

bench dips
2x12xbw

Kickbacks
2x12x8 lbs both at same time
12x20 one at a time
12x17.5 one at a time

Biceps
Kinda shitty but I did like 8-10 sets. Not really worth logging, my arms were tired and I could barely activate my bicep lol

Side to Side elliptical
20 mins

standing calf raise
3x12x120

decent little workout. Bodybuilding is hella boring right now. Gonna keep up with the strongman ish type training!
 
10-28-15: yeah budday back day

Barbell Rows
2x5x225
5x245
8x225

Rack Pulls from 1 inch below knee (lowest squat rack setting)
3x135
3x225
3x315
3x405
3x455
3x3x495

Pull Ups
4x6

T bar row
3x12x1 plate

Lat Pulldown
8x135

Pullover
8x35
8x55
8x75
8x100!

Zottman Curl
2x16x25s
2x16x30s
16x25s

EZ bar curl
8x75

Preacher DB curl
10x25 each arm

Elliptical
20 mins

Pretty solid day today. Left some energy in the muscle to grow. I think that's a more sustainable training strategy for me. As much as I love goin hard as fuck I think this is just smarter. Anyways, I've been going to a chiropractor who is beyond legit. Like holy shit this guy knows so much. He's been adjusting me and teaching me how to use better form/posture. The main que is keep your head back and chin tucked. It has been helping a ton with lat activation and today's session was pretty awesome because of it. I'm fairly burnt out so I didn't go ridiculously hard but this workout will give me some good gains. Very solid session. Just gotta train like this full time instead of going balls to the wall every time. Good workouts but moderate enough to recover.
 
Had a pretty legit shoulder day last week on Thursday. Ate like shit this weekend but actually made some lean gains lol. Funny how that works. Weighed in at 211 at the beginning of my workout today and 209 at the end.

11-2-15: Legs and Chest

Squat
365x3
405x3 last rep paused
365x3 last rep paused

Bench
225x5
245x5
265x5
285x4

DB Bench
6x12x65s (2 sets hi incline 2 sets med incline 2 sets flat, 45 sec rest between sets)

Flyes and rear delts on cable
6x8-12 pyramid sets

Standing Calf Raise
6-8x8-12 pyramid sets

Side to side elliptical
20 min

Good, fun workout today.
 
11-4-15: Back

Wide Grip Pull Ups
5 sets of 5-7 reps

Cable Row
6x12

Pullover
3x12

Zottman Curl
6x12

ez bar curl
6x12

Cardio
20 min

Ok workout but I was getting kind of sick/nauseous. All yesterday I was nauseous and ate maybe 1000 calories, but today I feel better and have already had my normal breakfast with no digestive problems. Moving delts to sat since I barely ate yesterday.
 
Had a pretty good shoulder day on Saturday. My system got super fucked up, not sure why but it's gotta be either high life stress/cortisol, not enough sleep, too much anxiety, too much altered consciousness, too much forcing myself to do shit I don't want to do/burnout, or not enough fiber/vegetables in my diet. But anyways my appetite is pretty much back to normal, but from Weds to Sat I ate only about 2000-3000 cals. So my recovery was way off this week. Had that good delt session though low volume due to low cals, but today I def had to take it easy due to impaired recovery from last weeks leg day.

11-10-15: Legs

Squat
5x5x315 thick bar

Behind Back Double Overhand Hold aka Grip Exercise with thick bar
2x12 sec x 275
10 sec x 315
16 sec x 275

Calf Raise
6x12

Abs
3x12

Decent little workout. Just taking it easy and easing back into diet and training so I stop being so fuckin burnt out all the time. My energy levels were terrible, just too much physical and mental stress from school, dieting, training, work (lifting boxes a lot), emotional stress from getting used to not being with my ex, etc. Easing back into things to get my work capacity and recovery back up to where it once was without trying to force down my usual diet and force out my normal physical output. Gotta build up to it.
 
11-10-15: Bench/chest

Bench
3x5x225
5x245
1x265
1x285p
1x275p
1x275p
10x225

Cable Flyes with rear delts
4 or 5 sets of each

Machine flyes with rear delts
2 sets of each

Tricep Pushdown
3 or 4 sets

Zottman curl
3 sets followed by 1 set of reg concentration curls

Tricep kickback
2 sets

EZ bar curl
2 sets

Decent workout. I've lost a lot of weight, 202 yesterday, I've been taking it easy on the diet so it makes sense that the energy, strength, and size I'm accustomed to isn't quite there. However, my technique is pretty even and my posture is good on everything now due to going to the chiropractor, but due to low energy and size levels my tightness has been off, on my first few sets of bench I felt I had really crappy tightness esp at the bottom, so I did some pauses. I think I'm gonna do a lot of pauses for the next few weeks to fix my technique and get my strength back up. Everything else felt weak but effective. I'm going to slowly get back into the groove of things. It was a huge shock to my system to adapt to all the physical and mental stresses of college while still force feeding my normal diet and forcing out my normal training output.
 
11-12-15: Back

Wide Grip Pull Ups
3x8 that shit is hard ohohoh
1x8 chins

T Bar Row Machine Pronated Grip
12x1 plate
12x2 plate
12x3 plate almost shit myself
12x2 plate neutral grip

Rack Pull From lowest rack height (harder than deadlifts for me, cuz no leg drive)
3xbar
3x135
3x225
3x315
3x405
2x455
2x495 felt really fucking heavy for some reason. probably the fact i didn't eat last weak combined with my back and legs being mad sore from monday's workout plus lifting boxes at work
5x455 my ego couldn't handle anything less than 5 reps after the previous set's suckage

BB Row
12x135 hella awk so decided to do cable row

Cable Row
8x120
8x150
8x180
12x210 many of the last reps cheated as fuck, but I kept the focus on my lats and my head back and chin down, despite a lot of leg/hip drive lol
12x175 good form except for last 2 reps leg/hip drive.

Pullover
3 sets

Zottman Curl
3 sets

ez bar curl
1 set

Cardio Super fast and energetic for some reason
18 mins burnt 205 cals on elliptical. wow, that's a lot for such a short time frame. My hr was pretty high the whole time, max was 171 avg was around 150 or 160.

Decent workout. Still feeling weak, but the good news is I got my bodyfat tested today and I was 10.4%! At 207 bw (205 without clothes/shoes). Who said it couldn't be done naturally, unless u wanna consider God's green herb performance enhancement! I do feel my actual number may be higher because she tested a very fat free spot on my chest and quad, the only part that was kinda fat was my abdomen. It was a 3 site test. I thought she was gonna do bicep tricep abdomen and subscapular region like the nasm bf% test, I prob would have gotten higher on that like 11 or 12%, maybe 13%. We'll see. But yea, still got some good lat work in and a good pump (minus the rack deadlifts which killed my pump lol).
 
Damn, that's some bullshit. I just hit backspace twice to erase something in the long log I was posting for today which included saturday's delts, mondays legs and chest, and today's back session, but I guess the text box got deselected somehow and it just erased all the shit I typed. Some bullshit. Well I don't feel like typing it all again (I put so much work in typing it too =/) so here are some bullet points

-Saturday hit delts and used some new tricks for hitting rear n side delt (to hit side delt flex rear delt while doing). also did alternating db presses with 55 lb dbs I believe for 24 reps (12 each side) which was solid and I felt my rear n side delt working on those.

-Monday squat 365x3, 405x1, 405x1, 405x1, 365x3, benched 275x1p, 295x1p, 275x3. been having trouble staying tight on bench last 2-3 weeks so pauses have been helping. should have paused 275x3 cause not pausing turned my form to shit again.

Now I will log Thursday separately to avoid risking the above.

Today's workout, while I had it written out nicely, I will just do the highlights

Barbell Row
warmups
225x5
255x5
275x5 pr
225x10 pr
185x10 no belt and no touching floor

Pull ups
8 wide grip
8 chin ups
6 wide grip
8 chin ups (last few reps 3/4 ROM)

Cable row
warmups
165x8
200x12
165x10

close grip pulldown
8x120
8x140
8x160

pullover
2x12 cable
2x12 across bench

Biceps n forearms
8 sets I believe

Good workout today. strong bb rows everything else was weaker compensating haha. all good im happy with it all and my bb row form is getting good.
 
11-24-15: Big 3

Squat (thick bar =/)
warmups
3x315
2x365
1x385
1x405 pretty sure I've never hit 405 with thick bar
2x425 PR! and with the thick bar!! drop setted down to 315x5

Bench (thick bar =/)
warmups
5x225
1x275p
1x285p

Deadlift
warmups
3x405
3x495
1x545

Dips
bw x 12
bw x 25

Chin Ups Strict
bw x 12

Great workout today, even though I got there an hour late and only had 1 hour 10 mins to lift, when I wanted 2-2.5 hours to hit everything I needed. So I rushed a bit. Bodyweight was 211. Normally on weekends my eating suffers, and even though my eating suffered a little, I ate more than usual this weekend, and emerged bigger and stronger than I normally am on a Monday! My eating today was pretty fucked too but I managed to weigh in at a solid 211 without visible fat gain, so I felt pretty strong today.

Squats didn't feel very strong warming up though, 365x2 was tough, but then 385 I really tightened my core and suddenly it felt really damn fast n easy. 405 was decently easy, so I figured might as well go for a PR even with the thick bar, which usually takes 20 lbs off my squat. Hit a solid 425x2, but the second rep was a huuge grinder, and I definitely got a lot of hip rise, so I rested like 10 sec, then stripped the plates down to 315, and hit 5 good reps with good technique to end the day on a good note. 315 was done within 20-30 sec (probably right around 30) of 425 so I guess that would be rest pause.

Bench has been feeling weird and unstable lately and today was no exception, but I got a pretty easy 275 and 285 paused. I was tempted to go up to 305 but I was running out of time, prob couldve had it but then I wouldn't have had time for deads because the gym actually closed like 30 seconds after I finished my last set of deads haha.

I wanted 5 reps with 495 but my shin got ruptured again :( and my hands were hurting like a bitch, so I just decided to go heavy and low reps. I held 545 at the top for 15-20 sec though just to make sure my hands knew they need to not be a bitch next week :P. I gotta say, the Chiropractor's tip to keep my head back and chin down on everything, including deads, was especially helpful today, I felt my back was much much tighter on deads and my legs could transfer a lot of power to the bar.

Overall happy with this workout, felt very strong on bodyweight exercises too even though I'm weighing in heavier than my typical 207. Days like this make me love lifting! :)

But yeah I hit the big 3 today since I'm going home for thanksgiving break and I'm not planning on hitting the gym till Friday, since I'd have to pay 10 bucks each visit and I'm a cheap ass. Lookin forward to hitting back, delts, and arms Friday after some days off and Turkey day recovery!!
 
It was interesting taking a week off from normal training and eating, I came back feeling quite fresh and rested. I actually went to kempo Saturday, first time going when I'm not worn out from lifting and I performed pretty well, got 15 strict wide grip pull ups at the very beginning which really impressed me haha.

11-30-15: Legs

Squat
315x3
365x3
405x3/315x5 drop set

Rack Pull from below knee (but above shin rupture spot)
3x405
3x455
3x505

Calf Raise on leg press supersetted with standing calf machine
3 or 4 supersets

Elliptical side to side
18 min

12-1-15: Chest/arms

Bench
225x5
275x1p
295x1p
275x4
255x6

DB Incline Bench
10x65s
12x85s
10x100s (I think that might be a PR lol)

Chest Fly superset with rear delt
4 supersets

Tri Pushdown Superset with zottman curl
3 supersets plus 1 more tricep set and 1 set of ez bar preacher curl

Side to side elliptical
10 min

Good, short workouts. Finals are approaching and I have a huge essay due this week, today i actually didn't work on it lol, just went to chiropractor and costco after work. But yeah, strength is good and diet is coming back in. I'm taking sulbutiamine to help with motivation and focus in school, which seems to be curbing my appetite.
 
12-3-15: Back n bis

BB Row
5x185
5x205
5x215
5x225
5x235
3x255
3x265

Pull ups
8 wide grip
8 chins
8 wide grip
8 chins

DB preacher curl
12x35
10x45
8x55

cable curls
4x12

db curls
3x12

12-5-15: Shoulders

BTN lat/midback/rear delt pull
3x12

rear delt dumbbells
12x25s fly
12x35s fly
12x45s row
12x55s row
8x65s row
12x70s row

Side Raise
3 or 4 sets alternating 1 arm at a time

DB ohp alternating
24x30
24x45
16x60
9x55s at same time

Tris
5x12

forearms
5x12

Cardio
225 cals burnt in 20 min

Gooood days this week. Just been taking it easy, eating, and growing. Good stuff goin into finals week strong.
 
12-8-15: yeahhhhh buddayyyyy

Squat
warmups
365x3
405x2
435x1 10 lb pr
455x1 30 lb pr!!!!!!

Bench
warmups
225x5
275x5
2xpaused singlesx300

BB Row
warmups
185x5
225x5
255x5
275x5
225x10

Incline DB bench
65sx10
85sx10
100sx10

Cable Chest fly
12x15
12x30
12x45
12x60
15x30
12x30

Rdelts
5-7 sets of 10-12 db rear delts throughout whole workout probably

Concentration curl
16x25 zottman
16x30 zottman
16x35
16x40

1 arm db preacher curl
12x30
10x40
8x40
12x25

Ez bar trading off with partner 10 reps each set, no rest
10-15 sets of 10 with 45 lbs

Great day today. Had a final which was in a classroom at the rec center (it was a sports administration class), so I brought all my gym stuff and worked out right after finishing my last final of finals week. Smashed a squat PR and looking forward to many gains along these next few months of bulking up to 230. I'm currently at 211 and lean enough that I can hit a hard lean bulk this winter. I'm gonna cut in the spring back down to 220 and maintain while gaining strength at that level, and compete in powerlifting next winter. Pretty stoked, I think a 1600 total at 220 is doable. I've finally found the balance between training hard as fuck and resting and sleeping enough and adjusting for lower calories and higher life stress, and I"m making phenomenal gains. I'm going to ease into this bulk very slowly. For now I'm happy with these good numbers I lifted today, very strong workout. Eating hi fat helps too with strength I've found! Crazy pump at the end in my chest and bis.
 
12-11-15: Back N shoulders

Weighted Wide Grip Pull Up
bw x 5
25 x 5
45 x 3
70 x 3+2 half reps
25 x 5

T Bar Row neutral grip
1 plate x 12
2 plate x 12
3 plate x 8
4 plate x 6 drop set 3 plate x 4 drop 2 plate x 8

Push Press
135x5 strict press
185x3
205x2
225x0
225x0:
205x2

Side Raise
12x15s

Ok day last Friday, I had just had my last final and was kinda stressed but just decided to hit a heavy workout to stimulate my appetite and some growth, and to avoid the long drawn out ness of high volume. Shitty thing was I had some old chicken before my workout and the stomach sickness hit me as I was doin push presses lol. I also had my very eccentric friend film me on both 225 attempts and he distracted the shit out of me, I think on a day I felt good and wasn't distracted it would've went up easily. Overall a productive workout though, I think I did more around this like 4 sets of rdelt raise but this was the meat of it. I wanted to do arms n cardio but the nausea from the chicken was too much to bear by the time I got to side raises, did 1 set and bounced. Good news is I've learned to keep my shoulders externally rotated by activating my rhomboids so that's been helping a lot with everything esp pressing and rowing.

12-14-15: Legs/relief

Squat
365x3
385x3
395x3
405x3

Rack Pull Just below the knee, a lil higher than normal, next time I'll put it on pin 3 instead of 4.
worked up to 495x6

Leg Press
warmups
12x4 plate
12x5 palte
12x6 plate

Leg Curl 1 leg standing
12x30
8x50
8x70

Calf Raise seated
12x225
5x12x275
12x225

Tibialis raise
4x12x135

Goodgirlbadgirlmachine
3x30x60 lbs on both

Abs
3 sets

Great workout today. I was very relieved afterwards because I looked good again, I thought I"d lost muscle and gained fat but I was just flat and bloated/unvascular from inactivity+winter coldness+low carbs. After dieting semi properly again for a day n a half and training I look great again, better than ever if anything so I'm happy. Strong workout too. It was nice training at world gym again, I have a love hate relationship with that gym but today I was vibin with it very well. Just gotta go in with a focused mentality, when I go with a lack of focus or intensity I don't vibe with it at all, but today I went in with the proper mentality for training.
 
12-15-15: Bench

Bench
warmups
275x2
295x1p
305x1p
275x4(3p+1not paused)
245x6

DB Incline
12x90s

Chest Fly machine n rear delt
4 or 5 sets of each

Bis n tris
5x12

Short workout today, I felt pretty tired n weak because I only had 3 meals between last night's session and today's semi early session, but overall it still felt productive. I had energy to force myself to do more but what's the point, already got productive work in, leaving energy in the muscle to grow and recover properly. Finally getting smart with my training, and I no longer feel run down n shitty and I"m making way better gains from not trainng as hard on certain days!

Still got a great chest pump.
 
12-17-15: Back

BB Row
225x6
255x5
275x7 pr
225x12 pr

Weighted Wide Grip Pullup
bw x 5
25 x 5
45 x 5 drop to bw x 3
bwx8
bwx8 chin

Row Lever Machine 1 arm at a time
12x1 plate
12x2 plate

Vertical Lever Pull 1 arm at a time
12x1 plate
12x2 plate

Upper Angle Row Machine 1 arm at a time
12x1 plate
12x2 plate
12x3 plate

Close Parallel Grip Pulldowns
10x100
10x140
10x170

Close Parallel Grip Cable Row
10x120
10x150
10x180
10x210
10x240

Concentration Curl
24x25
16x30
16x35
16x30

Preacher 1 arm curl full slow rom
25x10
35x8
25x12

Elliptical
200 cals 21 min 133 avg hr 161 top hr

Great Workout yesterday. Hit some heavy pr BB rows, did a lot of exercises few sets of each high volume overall and felt amazing. Got a huge pump, pic is up on my instagram @moumoumusclechef. Also fried out my biceps. Overall a very productive high intensity medium high volume workout, killin it. 216 bodyweight. Eating is good and I have 3 weeks off from work and from school (biking around/stress) so I'm making great gains right now.
 
12-18-15: Shoulders

Rdelt warmups and external rotations
2 sets before pressing and 1 set between every set of pressing (flyes and btn pulldowns)

Push Press
barx10 strict
95x8 strict
135x6 strict
185x3
205x2
225x1 (on the set I attempted 1 rep and didn't get it, then tried again after refocusing (but not rereacking) and banged that shit up. held at top for 10-15 sec
185x5 held last rep up top for 10 sec

flyes
2x12x25s

BTN Pulldown for rdelt
12x120
12x140
12x160
15x140

Rdelt Row
12x30s
12x40s
12x50s

Side Raise
10x10s
10x15s
10x20s
10x25s
10x20s
16x15s alternating

Rdelt BTN Pulldown
2x15x90

Upright Row
2x12x90
12x110->5x90->6x15s side raise
12x90

front raise and dylan exercise
12x25 lbs fr 15x25 lbs de

Tri pushdown
8x12 pyramid 30-40-50-50-60-50-40-40

Hammer curl
7x12 pyramid 25s-30s-35s-40s-30s-30s-25s

Tri Kickback and Forearm Roller
TK
2x12x10s
FR
1x10 lbs
1x20 lbs
 
Great workouts overall this week, good pumps, strength is going up with my weight, and feeling amazing. Pretty surprising but I guess that the removed stresses of school, work, and biking, are really helping my recovery, even though I went for a fairly hard hike on weds and I'm going to kempo tomorrow (let's see how I feel tomorrow, ate a ton tonight so I'm optimistic).

Feels good to bulk again, I've been cutting for a long time but finally I'm lean enough and I can devote sufficient time to eating properly and reestablishing my habits. Looking forward to bulking to 230-240ish this winter, then cutting back down to 220, gonna add in some supplements in 2 weeks after 1 more week of heavy lifting then 1 deload week, then really hit the weights hard and make the size gains with heavy weight and high reps, as opposed to the low reps I've been doing as of late. Looking forward to bulking hard, eating a lot, while burning tons of calories at work and biking around. When training is going well, everything in life goes well.
 
12-21-15: squatz

Squat
warmups
365x3
405x5 PR! I cut depth a bit though, thankfully I'm deloading the next 2 weeks so it's a good chance to relearn how to go loww
vid:
315x3 paused and very very low

1 leg standing leg curl
12x30
10x50
8x70
8x80

Leg Press
3x20x4 plates

Calf Press
4x12x225
12x315

Seated Calf Raise
6x12x3 plate
12x3.5 plate
15x3 plate

Tibialis Machine
5x12x45

Good Girl Bad Girl Machine
30x60/70/80

Good workout today. I cut depth a little on those squats so I'm gonna have to fix my technique. Still happy with the PR though, my knees travel forward which loses me some depth so I need to relearn how to push em out and drop in the hole. Been too quad dominant needa recactivate my hams n glutes. The next 2 weeks of deloads will help with that. Overall a good workout.
 
I've been training bodybuilding style lately and haven't logged in a while. Hit some good PRs this week, yesterday I hit 2x6x275 on bb row followed by 15x225, last week I hit 225x16 on bench and today I hit 235x15, been training with higher reps. I'll try to get back into logging in the future
 
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