Bludevil's Swell Run (sponsored)

bludevil · 01-24-2008, 07:53 PM

1/24/08 - 24th day of Swell

Chest & Bi's
3 sets of 5 - BB Bench Press superset BB Curls
3 sets of 10 - Incline DB Press superset with Preacher Curls
3 sets of 15 - Cable Xovers superset with Cable Curls

Still no cardio

•Dosage: 2 scoops at breakfast and 2 scoops pre w/o

• Strength: Strength was pretty good today. I'm maintaining my strength while losing weight. I'm pleased so far.

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: didn't weigh so I'll say 196

• Pumps/Vascularity: Bi's were exploding after workout. Veins running across biceps are starting to show as well.

• Endurance: Again, limited on time in the gym due to busy work schedule. Had to get in and out, so I reduced rest intervals on all sets and still hit all #'s.

• Focus: Focus was great today.

• Overall Energy: Again, another day of great energy throughout the day.

• Personal Commentary: Don't know if it's the cumulitave effects of Swell, the weight loss, the diet or what, but I've been feeling like a million bucks lately.

bludevil · 01-25-2008, 02:44 PM

1/25/08 - 25th day of Swell

Basketball for 1.5 hours

•Dosage: 2 scoops pre w/o and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: N/A

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 197.5 this morning

• Pumps/Vascularity: N/A

• Endurance: For some reason, I was a little sluggish today. I ran fine, but just couldn't kick it into high gear.

• Focus: N/A

• Overall Energy: Energy has been good, not sure why I coudn't take it up a notch playing ball. Usually by the 15 to 20 minute mark everybody slows down a step or two and that's when I try to push it. While I did push it, I had no overdrive.

• Personal Commentary: Nothing new except dissapointed that my weight jumped up. Not sure why as my diet's been spot on.

Distilled Water · 01-27-2008, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by bludevil

1/25/08 - 25th day of Swell

Basketball for 1.5 hours

•Dosage: 2 scoops pre w/o and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: N/A

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 197.5 this morning

• Pumps/Vascularity: N/A

• Endurance: For some reason, I was a little sluggish today. I ran fine, but just couldn't kick it into high gear.

• Focus: N/A

• Overall Energy: Energy has been good, not sure why I coudn't take it up a notch playing ball. Usually by the 15 to 20 minute mark everybody slows down a step or two and that's when I try to push it. While I did push it, I had no overdrive.

• Personal Commentary: Nothing new except dissapointed that my weight jumped up. Not sure why as my diet's been spot on.

Maybe a little water?? I know if I eat a can of tuna and dont get an extra liter of water in me I'll usually be a .5-1.0lbs heavier in the am.

bludevil · 01-27-2008, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Distilled Water

Maybe a little water?? I know if I eat a can of tuna and dont get an extra liter of water in me I'll usually be a .5-1.0lbs heavier in the am.

Hmm, could be. Morning weight was 195 today.

bludevil · 01-27-2008, 01:54 PM

1/26/08 - 26th day of Swell

Cardio for 45 minutes

•Dosage: 1 scoops morning and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: N/A

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 195 this morning

• Pumps/Vascularity: N/A

• Endurance: Endurance was good today. Was able to go at a pretty high intensity for the entire length of cardio session.

• Focus: N/A

• Overall Energy: Energy still off the charts.

• Personal Commentary: Pleased to see the weight drop back to normal, but hope it stays and it's just not water loss from basketball.

bludevil · 01-28-2008, 03:41 PM

1/28/08 - 28th day of Swell

Back & Bi's
3 sets of 5 - Sumo DL superset DB Curls
3 sets of 10 - Chin Ups superset with Preacher Curls (forearms and bi's felt like they were going to xplode after this)
3 sets of 15 - bent over reverse db fly superset with concentration curls

10 minutes of LI cardio. Have a bball game tonight as well.

•Dosage: 2 scoops at breakfast and 2 scoops pre basketball

• Strength: Strength seems to be maintaining or even increasing in some lifts even though I'm dieting.

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: Didn't weigh

• Pumps/Vascularity: Forearms and Bi's were hurting they were pumped so much.

• Endurance: In the gym, it was good, but real test comes tonight.

• Focus: Focus was great today.

• Overall Energy:

• Personal Commentary: Everyting is going good today. Looking forward to tonights game.

bludevil · 01-29-2008, 06:45 PM

1/29/08 - 29th day of Swell

Routine: Shoulders
3 sets of 5 Military Press superset with DB Lateral Raises
3 sets of 10 DB Upright Rows superset with DB Shrugs
3 sets of 15 Cable front rows superset with 20 reps of sit-ups

In training class all day so no carido

•Dosage: 2 scoops pre w/o and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: #'s went up from last shoulder workout.

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 195 this morning.

• Pumps/Vascularity: Shoulders got an awesome pump.

• Endurance: Great, was able to up the weight and keep the rest intervals the same.

• Focus: Again, superb. Mind was solely on the weights.

• Overall Energy: Still on high.

• Personal Commentary: Won the basketball game last night. The other team was pretty poor, I think we beat them by close to 50 points. I have a 5 year old daughter that plays ball, and I think her team could have played better. As far as endurance, we had 9 players last night. The guys on my team would sub everyone out except me. So it seems other people are noticing I'm not giving out as much as everyone else.

bludevil · 01-30-2008, 07:03 PM

1/30/08 - 30th day of Swell

Cardio - 35 minutes on treadmill

•Dosage: 2 scoops pre w/o and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: N/A

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 196

• Pumps/Vascularity: N/A

• Endurance: Still on high

• Focus: N/A

• Overall Energy: Energy still rocking

• Personal Commentary: When I usually hop on the treadmill, I just click manual and enter the speed and incline. Today I chose the Fat Loss routine and it was pretty good. The goal was to keep my heart rate at 121. So I pretty much stayed at a speed of 3.5 and an incline of 10 - 11 for the entire time. It was nice, I'll probably do this from now on.

prld2gr8ns · 01-31-2008, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by bludevil

• Personal Commentary: Won the basketball game last night. The other team was pretty poor, I think we beat them by close to 50 points. I have a 5 year old daughter that plays ball, and I think her team could have played better. As far as endurance, we had 9 players last night. The guys on my team would sub everyone out except me. So it seems other people are noticing I'm not giving out as much as everyone else.

The comment on the other team made me laugh.

Great to see others are taking note of your anti-fatigue mutant powers.

bludevil · 01-31-2008, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by prld2gr8ns

The comment on the other team made me laugh.

Yeah, they were so bad, I felt guilty when my team scored because we we're ahead by so much. With about 5 minutes left to go in the game I was telling everybody just hold the ball and not try to score. Honestly, it wasn't even fun because of the lack of competition.

bludevil · 01-31-2008, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by prld2gr8ns

Great to see others are taking note of your anti-fatigue mutant powers.

Thanks, the great thing is, I'm the oldest player on the team at 34. Most of the guys are mid 20's.

bludevil · 01-31-2008, 04:34 PM

1/31/08 - 31th day of Swell

Chest & Bi's
3 sets of 5 - BB Bench Press superset Weighted Dips
3 sets of 10 - Incline DB Press superset with DB Overhead Press
3 sets of 15 - Cable Xovers superset with Pushdowns

•Dosage: 2 scoops at breakfast and 2 scoops post w/o

• Strength: Strength was ok. I increased the weight on all tri exercises but had to do rest pause on the last set of most of the tri's to complete the sets.

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: still holding at 196. I think I'm going to drop calories by about 200, cause I've been sticking at 196 for about 2 weeks now.

• Pumps/Vascularity: Honestly, it's been a long time since my tri's were as pumped as they were today.

• Endurance: Endurance was good, had another meeting I had to go to after my workout, so I was in and out of the gym in 30 minutes.

• Focus: Focus was great today.

• Overall Energy: Still good

• Personal Commentary: Been reading up on the Velocity Diet. I think I may give it a go after basketball season is over with.

Distilled Water · 01-31-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bludevil

• Personal Commentary: Been reading up on the Velocity Diet. I think I may give it a go after basketball season is over with.

As have I. I think I might give it a try after baseball season.

bludevil · 01-31-2008, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Distilled Water

As have I. I think I might give it a try after baseball season.

From some of the posts I've read, it seems to work but I still worry about strength decrease. Sounds like a great diet to lead into the summer time. My idea is to run a 2 week Velocity Diet, then probably Carb Cycle for about 8 weeks then finish up with 2 more weeks on Velocity before hitting the beach for the summer.

Distilled Water · 01-31-2008, 07:48 PM

Yea good call. I was going to hit it for 2 weeks then go back to my CKD/AD or TKD ways for lean mass then hit it 2 weeks prior to my heavy bulking TKD.

Sorry for clogging the thread with this banter Prld2gr8ns

bludevil · 02-01-2008, 04:14 PM

2/1/08 - 32nd day of Swell

Basketball for 1.5 hours

•Dosage: 2 scoops pre w/o and 2 scoops afternoon

• Strength: N/A

• Bodyweight/Body Comp: 195 this morning

• Pumps/Vascularity: N/A

• Endurance: Endurance was probably the best today since I've started taking Swell.

• Focus: N/A

• Overall Energy: Still on par

• Personal Commentary: Since playing bball for the last couple of months, I could tell I wasn't in the best of shape endurance wise but today I seemed to have turned the corner. I finally felt like I had my legs under me, and was able to go strong the entire game.