Dmz/stano/trest log

[puccah8808]

No def not, you don't want to be strapped to heavy dbs, you want to drop them if you can't lift them. That's a good way to tear your rotator cuff. If you lose one and you're strapped to the other one you're going to fall off the bench.

You kick them up and while you're coming down you push up so you have the dbs in the locked out position when you're flat on the bench. I usually do flat db with my feet up.

No, I mean just the straps, the ones that wraps all around to stabilize your wrist.

 

[Mystere3]

No, I mean just the strap, the ones that wraps all around to stabilize your wrist.

Oh wrist wraps. I use a glove with a built in wrist strap. I have wrist wraps too but I only use them for very heavy bench press which I don't do too often. Might have to break them out for 5x5 if I decide to put up 455.

It's not that my wrists can't move the weight, it's that they're hard to manipulate. Try picking up a 100 lb db with one hand and just moving it around sometime. That's why that ronnie coleman vid is so impressive.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WKUtsGxBTCE

 

[puccah8808]

Omg! He made that look so freaking easy!!!! Thats insane! Lol

 

[Magdalena]

Omg! He made that look so freaking easy!!!! Thats insane! Lol

Yup! That's what I'm talking about!
Light weight, lol....

 

[Mystere3]

Yeah, I can lift the 200 lb dbs a couple times if they're handed to me, the problem is manipulating them. Ronnie is like 300+ lb in that vid which certainly helps you stay in position, but that's incredibly impressive by any standard. If you YouTube anyone else lifting 200 lb dbs it looks like they might die.

 

[puccah8808]

Yeah, I can lift the 200 lb dbs a couple times if they're handed to me, the problem is manipulating them. Ronnie is like 300+ lb in that vid which certainly helps you stay in position, but that's incredibly impressive by any standard. If you YouTube anyone else lifting 200 lb dbs it looks like they might die.

I want to see you lift it!!!!!

 

[Mystere3]

I want to see you lift it!!!!!

Lol it doesn't look like ronnie, that's for sure.

 

[puccah8808]

Lol it doesn't look like ronnie, that's for sure.

Do you use a lot of leg drive? I still see a lot of guys at the gym use absolutely none. Lol, I think I had the biggest legs at the gym tonight. Nobody had any nor where they training them.

 

[Mystere3]

A lil but not that much. The bigger strain is on your wrists/forearms but yeah lateral chest too. The actual weight is heavy but not that heavy relative to barbell. Stabilizing it is the hard part.

 

[puccah8808]

Hmm... Maybe I've been training wrong.

 

[Mystere3]

Hmm... Maybe I've been training wrong.

I'm a bb, not a powerlifter, my goals are really different. The weight I lift is just a tool to accomplish the physique changes I want.

You saw me mention earlier that I'll put my feet up with 160s right?

On flat bb bench I don't put my feet up but I flare my elbows and use pretty wide grip.

 

[MrKleen73]

Your weights are ridiculous man. Absolutely insane. I love it!

 

[Mystere3]

Thanks! Just trying to get a good workout

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 241.2

Legs/back today.

 

[Mystere3]

Today's workout sorta sucked. It was way too hot today, had low energy. Just got in and out.

Squat: 315 x 15 x 2
Dl: 405 x 15 x 2
Leg press: 785 x 15 x 2
Leg curl: 150 x 15 x 2
Calves 225 x 15 x 2

Face pull: 300 x 15 x 2
Rear delt pec deck superset with lat pulldown: 150 x 15 x 2, 200 x 15 x 2
One arm rows: 120 x 15 x 2
Seated Shrug machine 360 x 15 x 2
Hammer high and low rows: 360 x 15 x 2 each
Cable rows 240 x 15 x 2

Felt overheated and sh1tty during the workout. Ugh.

 

[puccah8808]

Whenever I picture you now, all I see is Ronnie Coleman. Your numbers are insane and we don't know how you look like.

View attachment 101199

 

[Magdalena]

Whenever I picture you now, all I see is Ronnie Coleman. Your numbers are insane and we don't know how you look like. <img src="http://anabolicminds.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=101199"/>

Not quite , lol...
Being he is 6.1, he's just a good size beast, lol....
Like national level good size, ha ha.....

 

[Mystere3]

Haha not quite RC, or national level

 

[Magdalena]

Haha not quite RC, or national level

Here u go being modest again, lol...
I guess we will c ( or imagine)...
Can't wait for u to get down to 9%....
Curious to what u will weigh than..

 

[stillchillin]

No a/c in the gym? You at metro flex or something?

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 240.0

Beast mode arms tonight:

Bench press 4 x 5 x 375 1 x 10 x 375

Olympic bar curl 135 lb "21" 7 top, 7 full, 7 bottom, 9 more full reps to failure.

Incline 45 degree hammer curl: 65 x 8 full, 4 half, 55 x 6 full, 45 x 8 full, 4 half

Skulls 135 lb to failure (15 reps) and close grip presses (22)

Rest pause concentration curls: 45 x 24, 8 (after 20 sec)

Weighted dips drop set: 90 x 15, 45 x 15, bw x 12

Preacher curl drop set: 120 x 15, 70 x 12

Tricep push down drop set:

200 x 18 (12 apart, 6 down) 150 x 16 (10 apart, 6 down), 100 x 12 (8 apart, 4 down)

Nice pump!

 

[Magdalena]

Weight 240.0 Beast mode arms tonight: Bench press 4 x 5 x 375 1 x 10 x 375 Olympic bar curl 135 lb "21" 7 top, 7 full, 7 bottom, 9 more full reps to failure. Incline 45 degree hammer curl: 65 x 8 full, 4 half, 55 x 6 full, 45 x 8 full, 4 half Skulls 135 lb to failure (15 reps) and close grip presses (22) Rest pause concentration curls: 45 x 24, 8 (after 20 sec) Weighted dips drop set: 90 x 15, 45 x 15, bw x 12 Preacher curl drop set: 120 x 15, 70 x 12 Tricep push down drop set: 200 x 18 (12 apart, 6 down) 150 x 16 (10 apart, 6 down), 100 x 12 (8 apart, 4 down) Nice pump!

Somebody is leaning out n still lifting big!!
Nice work!!

 

[Mystere3]

I'm really liking hit style training. One set per exercise is letting me get insane intensity and get through workouts fast! I'm doing twice as many reps in one set as I'd been doing in my combined sets!

 

[BlumpkinKing]

Your bar curl is crazy man.

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 238.8 today:

6.2 lb have come off in 9 days. That was a bit alarming so I took measurements, which were reassuring.

Measurements today:
Chest 49 -> 48.5
Arms 20.5 -> 20.5
Waist 34 -> 33
Calves 20 -> 20
Bf: 12.8%

Switching to low carb has helped me lose a lot of the water I've gained on cycle. I think I've lost a bit of fat and some muscle glycogen too. Haven't lost much muscle mass though, I'm continuing to get stronger.

 

[Mystere3]

I guess I look at it like this:

I ate at maintainance on this cycle and gained 13 lb. therefore a big chunk of that weight was water and muscle glycogen.

My guess is that I gained about 5-6 lb of good muscle on cycle (about 1 lb a week) which is great. I think I lost about 2-3 lb fat. That's about 3 lb net. At least half of the remaining weight is water in my experience with the rest being muscle glycogen. Since the end of the cycle, I've continued to lose fat, provably about a lb. I doubt I'm actively adding much muscle but maybe a little bit as strength is up, let's say, 0.5 lb. that's net -0.5 lb. my guess is that most of the weight I've lost is water since I've lowered carbs to 25% from 40% and calories by 500. That's a drop of 350c -> 180c. That drop in carbs will lower both retained water and muscle glycogen.

There are a lot of ways to determine what you've kept but the most important to be are strength, measurements, and the mirror.

 

[Mystere3]

Pretty happy with how pct has gone. Libido is great, better than on cycle with trest even, shredding, keeping most of my muscle, bf% is dropping.

A lot of that has been the lower carbs and calories, but I think switching to HIT style training has really helped!

Today is a rest day, shoulders tomorrow. Will go HAM with HIT style training.

Finished up TUDCA today, currently rubbing alphamine and incinedrine. Will prob add eph and compound 20 soon.

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 240.0 (+1.2)

Had a few more carbs yesterday. This makes me happy as it's clear most of my weight loss after cycle was from water loss from carb depletion.

Shoulder HIT today:

Db press drop set (no rest except time to be handed the dbs: 120 x 15, 100 x 8, 80 x 10, 60 x 12

Db shrug drop set: 150 x 16, 130 x 8, 110 x 10

Db lateral raise drop set: 65 x 16, 45 x 8, 25 x 31

One arm side lateral drop set: 65 x 20, 45 x 16, 25 x 28

Shrug machine drop set: 450 x 16, 360 x 9, 270 x 15

Military press drop set: 275 x 9, 225 x 10, 135 x 21

Incline hammer strength drop set: 360 x 16, 270 x 9, 180 x 15

Pretty solid workout today, got some delt pumps which I've never had before.

I'm noticing far more DOMs from xgels than x-factor, gonna run that from now on!

 

[Mystere3]

Weight today 238.2 (down 1.8 lb)

I had pretty good nutrition yesterday too, had at least 275g protein and 350g carbs. Weird.

Don't look like I've lost any mass, def look more defined though.

 

[Mystere3]

Left trap was hurting today so decided to take a day off.

Will probably take scheduled day off tomm and go wed thurs sat sun.

Today's nutrition:

311g protein
233g carb
83g fat
2987 cal

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 237.2

Lost another lb. measurements are the same except waist is down 0.5". Bf% dropping a lil.

 

[Magdalena]

Weight 237.2 Lost another lb. measurements are the same except waist is down 0.5". Bf% dropping a lil.

Nice work so far!
U should have a killer session tomorrow, after having 2 days of rest...

 

[Mystere3]

Hopefully! Tomorrow is chest! Made some overnight oats for tomm!

 

[Magdalena]

Hopefully! Tomorrow is chest! Made some overnight oats for tomm!

Yum!!
Wait! I think? How did u make em? If u don't mind sharing.....

 

[Mystere3]

This batch was pretty high carb, as I'm prepping for chest day:

1 cup old fashioned oats
1 scoop pes select
1 cup plain greek yogurt
1 tbsp pb2 and a tbsp pnug butter.

 

[Magdalena]

This batch was pretty high carb, as I'm prepping for chest day: 1 cup old fashioned oats 1 scoop pes select 1 cup plain greek yogurt 1 tbsp pb2 and a tbsp pnug butter.

Oh yes! That's my kind of breaky, minus a lil over a half of cup of oats, ha ha....
I love pb2, too!
Yup, u should have a killer workout!

 

[puccah8808]

Oh yes! That's my kind of breaky, minus a lil over a half of cup of oats, ha ha....
I love pb2, too!
Yup, u should have a killer workout!

Empty your mailbox mag! I need to send you some nudez!

 

[Magdalena]

Empty your mailbox mag! I need to send you some nudez!

I'm all your puccah! Sorry Big M, didn't mean to highjack ur thread, lol....

 

[funkd0c]

This batch was pretty high carb, as I'm prepping for chest day: 1 cup old fashioned oats 1 scoop pes select 1 cup plain greek yogurt 1 tbsp pb2 and a tbsp pnug butter.

So, what's the prep like? Just mix and let sit overnight?

 

[Mystere3]

So, what's the prep like? Just mix and let sit overnight?

Yep!

 

[Mystere3]

Weight 239 (carbed up a bit so makes sense)

Chest today!

 

[Mystere3]

Beast mode session today.

Bench: warmup, 135 x 8, 225 x 8, 315 x 8

Drop set, no rest:

405 x 8, 315 x 6, 225 x 14, 135 x 21

Incline db drop set:

150 x 8, 125 x 10, 100 x 7

Flat db drop set:

150 x 9, 125 x 10, 100 x 13

Hammer strength incline drop set:

410 x 13, 360 x 10, 270 x 12

 

[Peppers]

I could put up those numbers.

On the smith, with a spotter lol

Pump was insane on those drop sets I'm sure.

 

[Mystere3]

Yeah, I was inspired by kai greene's chest workout, the drop sets are brutal on the shoulders though, you need to really focus on form or you can easily hurt yourself!

 

[Magdalena]

Beast mode session today. Bench: warmup, 135 x 8, 225 x 8, 315 x 8 Drop set, no rest: 405 x 8, 315 x 6, 225 x 14, 135 x 21 Incline db drop set: 150 x 8, 125 x 10, 100 x 7 Flat db drop set: 150 x 9, 125 x 10, 100 x 13 Hammer strength incline drop set: 410 x 13, 360 x 10, 270 x 12

Great stuff^^^...!!!!...
I bet that 135x21 was a good burn, lol....

 

[Mystere3]

Yeah it was nice! I've really been into the mentzer/yates one set method, I think it works great! It's ideal for training less often cuz you are DESTROYED after each workout.

 

[Olympus Labs]

How's the CONQU3R treating you?

 

[Mystere3]

It's good, the only thing is that it seems to make you really hot.

 

[Olympus Labs]

It's good, the only thing is that it seems to make you really hot.

Hmm, may be the beta-alanine dosage.

I kind of like that feeling though.

 

[Mystere3]

Hmm, may be the beta-alanine dosage.

I kind of like that feeling though.

It's not good for big drop sets though. It actually limited my reps bc I felt overheated.