Keithan: HST Rage in Iraq (epic skullcrushing smashface results to ensue)

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Edit: Photos the day before starting this :P Take it easy on me! I though I look too serious and not muscly enough to be so serious in one so I modified it a bit

Edit: Changed the title to reflect my new mood, as well as the type of log it is (HST) The title will evolve, for example, it may be "Love is in the Air" if that's how I feel, considering my current situation with work, I like the new title. Changed my opening paragraph a little too, gotta keep you guys hooked eh?

Hey Everyone!

This is my first Log ever and technically an official intro post I suppose!

About Me: I volunteered to come to Iraq to do personnel recovery. I thought I would be outside the gate every day doing my thing talking to locals and such (I am a human intel collector) but after getting here I got stuck in a desk job (headquarters intel analyst) while it looks good on a resume, being an intel analyst for all of iraq and working for a general, it really sucks balls and I spend most of my time watching movies and surfing the web. I have been here since 01JAN10, and have had 0 days off so far. Working 12 hr/7 day shift. Looking forward to my first day off, which willl be the day I go home :P Want to get ripped to be big n huge and make pea gravel with my pecs, basic dream of any body builder right? Really I want to hit 200 or so by August. I am trying to extend my tour right now partially to get more quality free food/gym time in, partially to get home as close to christmas as I can. This is my story:P

I am totally new to this whole smart body buildnig thing, so please critique the crap out of everything I write in here and give me pointers whenever you feel like, or just call me a dipsh** if you want :P

Heres the pics! These are all totally cold

My Frontside, notice the effort I am using to flex.


My Back. Trying to get rid of that backne, Sweaty all the time sucks though.


Legs


Bis, and a good shot of my mustache, goatee, chops, gray hairs and new shark tattoo.


My side/abs/arm/face? I dunno, good angle, you can see my emerging 6pack

[votum]

OK. Chow Hall in Iraq sucks. anyone who's been there agrees. Its cool for the first few days, but it wears off quick. I work Midnight to noon, so my diets semi wonky. Wonky is a great word by the way! Here it is:

Meal 1 (2300):
-Healthiest protein I can get, usually chicken, sometimes it has to be a salisbury steak, rarely it is a lobster tail
-Helping of cooked veggies, sometimes mixed, sometimes broccoli, sometimes green beans
-Either mashed potatoes or rice. rice more often
-helping of fresh veggies, sometimes cucumber, sometimes tomatoe
-2x v8
-1x milk, sometimes full cream, sometimes banana falvored (good!)

Meal 2 (0500):
-Whatever I eat for meal 1 I get a to-go plate that matches it. I work out at 0230 or 0300 then get back and eat.
-2 scoops nutrapro frosty chocolate

Meal 3 (0730):
-Breakfast
-3 hard boiled eggs, whites only (is yolk good for you?)
-Bowl of oatmeal with apples in it
-scoop of mixed fruit or pineapple with cottage cheese
-1 or 2 v8

Meal 4 (1200):
-Pretty much Identical to meal 1 and 2

I snack on beernuts brand almonds throughout the day (all I can get)

If you guys have tips for me go for it :P Goal here is to be healthy and bulk up to a ripped 200 by August.

Keep in mind choices are not great, and cooking is not possible. I am also taking it easy on the protein shakes because I may go to school when I get home and don't want to be spending tons of money on protein. I spend enough on supps lol.

Supplements:

ASGT
NutraPro
Formadrol
HGHPro

I'm on these 4 right now. Will continue taking ASGT and NutrPro when the HGHPro and Formadrol run out. Don't fully know how Supps work, how much rest do I need, and what is recommended to run after those?

Order hasn't shipped yet, but once it does I will be adding these:

Adam Multi
NP Creatine Mono added to protein shake
Super Cissus RX

[votum]

Day 1: Chest/Abs
Day 2: Back/Shoulders/Abs
Day 3: Bi/Tri/Abs
Day 4: Legs/Abs
Day 5: Rest 1 day or start over

I am an abs whore so I will do them every day. It mostly consists of maybe 200 situps or so, split between my excersises as I see fit. Additionals are put wherever.

Again, I am a newb so tear me up if necessary

[votum]

Took my HGHPro last night, slept like a baby.
took some formadrol once I got to work
Took some Anadraulic State GT. It made me pee 3 times in an hour before I went to the Gym, and once at the Gym. I pushed more weight than I normally do, and didn't feel any more focused than normal. But maybe it just takes a day or two. I took 2 scoops too.

OK heres the meat:

Chest / abs day

Warm Up: BP - 45x10, 65x10, 95x10, 115x10

DB Press:
50x6, 50x5, 40x8 (failure)

Incline DB Press:
30x7, 30x8, 30x4 (failure)

Bench Press:
135x5, 125x8, 125x6, 115x7 (failure)

DB Fly: wide as I can, I angle the end of the dbs so they face up in down pos.
25x8, 25x8, 25x6 (failure)

Cable Crossover: not sure if this is great for chest
50x5 (too much lol) 40x7, 40x10

Machine Fly: did this last and I was busted
50x8, 50x6, 30x10

Abs: I was lazy today for abs
50x situps

HIIT: I love the row.
2000M Row, 9:50.2 I did 500M heavy, 500M light, repeated. My 500M speed splits were 2:02 and 2:00

And Pushups to failure: sadness
0x regular pushups 3x from my knees

This workout kicked the crap out of me. Not sure if I hit it too hard, but some weights were too heavy I think. All final sets are to failure. What do you guys think?

Edit: This is my first time in years doing benchpress. I am very weak doing it, even though I should probably be able to do more. I think my max is around 150 or 160, but I workout alone so I am not sure what my max is.

[votum]

Cmon guys I know I am not perfect or even close to it, there's got to be some input!

[Killerkanadia]

I liked the chow halls in Iraq

[votum]

I liked the chow halls in Iraq

When were you there? I honestly think they have been severely downgraded so KBR can make more money. Also, WHAT ABOUT MY ROUTINE :P

[votum]

Day 2!

I slept well again last night, the HGHPro really works well :P

I took 3 scoops of ASGT today 1 hour before working out, and my stomach was killing me in the gym. Really think I am doing it wrong or something =x Might drop to 1 scoop in 20oz of water to see if that makes it any better o.O

Energy was fine, I had some rage to work out so I hit it fairly hard. First time ever doing the dead lift, I like it but I need some gloves =x Supersetted the first 4 excercises, then started getting beat. Thinking about switching to an every other day full body (work 7 days a week for a year so "weekends" dont exist lol) for a month or two. Don't feel strong enough to keep doing a split routine / not smart enough yet

Lowdown:

Warmup: Deadlifts 100ish x10

Deadlift: superset this with db curls
155lbs 4x8

DB Curl:
35lbs 4x8

Wide-grip pull up: superset with seated row
3x6, 1x5

Seated Row:
110lbs 4x10

Hammer Curls: did these last
35lbs 1x6 (too much) 30lbs 3x8

Again, abs workout, did some of the stand up and twist back and forth with 15lb dbs in hand, bunch of situps, bunch of incline situps, I take 3 breaths on my negative during situps, and some reverse situps for my lower back

And last, 2000M row, under 10min

I seem to have stopped gaining weight, sitting at 175 right now. I am eating, I should probably eat more, but I am thinking its because my W/Os don't make terrible sense =x Like I said above, think I may swap to a Full Body deal for a bit. Waiting for feedback :P

[permanabol]

1st eat the yolks I'm no diet master but eat them they raise test
2nd brown rice and yams(sweet potatoes) are best better over mashed wich is Hi Gi.
3rd drop one of the bench's don't need to do both if you get to pushups and can't do one your doing to much would drop the pushups and one of the benches db or flat keep incline though
4th flat flies or machine flies not both again same thing pretty much. dips are also great for chest.
5th put shoulders on a seperate day back would kill you and then you would have to hit shoulders
just saw your not gunna do the full body split look up HST for fullbody workout or do(my personal fav split)
chest tri; back bi; legs shoulders

best of luck (oh and no matter what do squats and deadlifts!)
peace

[votum]

Not to the workout yet, its still midnight :P but some cool updates regardless!

I wanted to go semi-light on the supplement wagon for my first real go at the bb stuff, so I threw in some formadrol. Taking 3 caps a day, I am definately noticing an increase in agression, which may not be such a good thing :P

Story: I volunteered to deploy to Iraq with 3 other guys, two of which are total douches. All of which out-rank me =x I've worked 12 hour days for 130 days now 0 days off, understandably I am late every once and awhile. So Larry (highest ranking guy who came, e7) comes to my office yesterday to tell me I cam getting sent home early, I am not happy about it for multiple reasons, like money/gi bill smaller/enjoy being in iraq, etc. and he tells me to go to some school when I get home instead. I say no, it doesn't fit in with my plans right away, more important things to do (like not be living in a storage unit) He proceeds to yell at me for having a crappy attitude, being a crappy soldier, etc. I proceed to yell back at him for being a crappy leader and a crappy human being. He is stubborn and dumb, so dosen't back down, and I am pissed beyond imagination so I don't back down. End of line, he walked away. Now I felt like crushing a terrorist's skull with my bare hands, but I just went to bed instead. Don't know how good it is for my career, but the formadrol is working LMAO.

[votum]

Oh and, supplement review for the other day:

HGH - I slept very good tonight, I work nights, and they do all weapon testing/all the bombs go off during the evening, when I am trying to sleep, so when I wake up its probably because of those things. I don't remember waking until my alaram went off. Lower back hurt like hell, but that's because first time doing DL ever was the day before and probably because my bed is crap, so no worries lol. little groggy when I opened my eyes, but soon as I stood up I was ready to go. Still only a few days in though, dont think im getting the full effect yet.

Anadraulic State GT: Mixed this up yesterday, used 3 scoops because I didn't feel anything the first time. I didn't pee much, but my stomach hurt like hell, almost didn't want to stay in the gym, but there were some hotties so I had too.fairly sure I put too much in. Experimenting on the mixing style now because it dosn't seem to shake well in a bottle, going to just stir in a cup tonight.

S****etti and chicken breast for dinner, piece of garlic bread, 2 v8s, scoop of sliced cucumber, and a cup of iced coffee. Took a togo plate with a chicken breast and some white rice and sliced tomatoes for after working out. Brown rice is not an option very often

[Killerkanadia]

When were you there? I honestly think they have been severely downgraded so KBR can make more money. Also, WHAT ABOUT MY ROUTINE :P

I wandered around northern iraq 07-08. Every single dfac beats the **** out of any one i've been to in afghanistan lol.

[Killerkanadia]

I'm in the same situation as you bud. I work 12 hour shift night ops here in afghanistan and it sucks ass. I haven't had a real day off since i got here in december either haha... Luckly it settles down and i can go to the gym after mid night chow.

I see that you say you want to get riped. I assume you also, probably. want to get size. It really depends on your body type and metabolism but i would drop the cardio for a while until you get closer to going home, and i would focus on gaining the mass. That being said, I wouldn't go 4 days on 1 day off. Also i would combine your arms day into your chest and back days. The LESS you work out(and focus on eating) the MORE you're going to grow.

Note* i read your day 2 and saw you did two different curls on your "back" day. Do you still plan on doing arms on day 3? Really at this pace you're going to run the risk of over training. Wide grip pull downs are good, but i would make sure you get some sort of Row exercise in besides the cardio row machine.

Also, since you're new to deadlifts be careful and practice good form. I know we're fobbits but it sucks to wear gear with a sore lower back lol.

[A_I_Sports_Nutrition]

God bless you for your service and I am subbed. Glad it is working out well so far.

[Rodja]

Subbed along.

[votum]

I'm in the same situation as you bud. I work 12 hour shift night ops here in afghanistan and it sucks ass. I haven't had a real day off since i got here in december either haha... Luckly it settles down and i can go to the gym after mid night chow.

I see that you say you want to get riped. I assume you also, probably. want to get size. It really depends on your body type and metabolism but i would drop the cardio for a while until you get closer to going home, and i would focus on gaining the mass. That being said, I wouldn't go 4 days on 1 day off. Also i would combine your arms day into your chest and back days. The LESS you work out(and focus on eating) the MORE you're going to grow.

Note* i read your day 2 and saw you did two different curls on your "back" day. Do you still plan on doing arms on day 3? Really at this pace you're going to run the risk of over training. Wide grip pull downs are good, but i would make sure you get some sort of Row exercise in besides the cardio row machine.

Also, since you're new to deadlifts be careful and practice good form. I know we're fobbits but it sucks to wear gear with a sore lower back lol.

I'm moving over to an HST Routine, I am heading to the gym here in 15 minutes andI need to go to my throne room for a few mins so won't post the routine yet :P I'm still in my experimenting phase, I started off last month just smokeing whatever didn't hurt, and taking a day off when everything hurt, then found this site (when looking for reviews on the crap supps we have in the PX LOL) and switched to a semi-edcated 2 day split, then moved to a 3 day split, then 4 day split, now HST looks good so I am going to give it a shot.

I'm not positive on my body type, but I wrestled in HS at 119, was 135 in boot camp and artillery school, then I got married and all of a sudden I was 170 and a bit chunky, didnt work out much, except for a month before the pt test. Now I am divorced and lost some weight, was hovering about 150-160 depending on how often I worked out. I have definately grown noticably since I started being serious roughly a month ago, and my weight has doubled for all excercises since i started too, from DB/bb weight to cable weights. Never did bench/squat/dl though, so they didnt double in one month, LOL. I'd say 60/40 ecto/meso maybe? Meh, gotta roll out, ill post what I did when I get back!

[permanabol]

Glad to see your doing hst i'll be following your results. and yeah drop the cardio

[votum]

OK. I love HST. I love ASGT.

HGHPro: Slept good, not going to keep updating this one because there are tons of logs with it, unless I notice something spectacular, like waking up humping my bed or something. Crazy dreams would also go here.

ASGT: OK, I felt it today. I thought my 15RM for Bench would be around 100 pounds or so, I kept moving it up by 5 pounds and doing 15 reps like it was nothing. Bench has been weak for me forever, so this was a surprise. I also had bigger pumps than ever before, and normally my veins only pop out when I am destroying my bis, but they were out in force today. I am starting to like this stuff. Tomorrow I think I will put 2 scoops in a juice box of pineapple juice and just pound the blob it makes because it does taste horrid =x I also noticed that despite going very near failure on every excercise today, I walked to the next spot and dug right in. Good example is after doing like 60 reps on the bench I did 15 chinups. Normally I'd be too smoked for that.

Formadrol: Took my 2 caps right after breakfast this morning, which was sp h a ghetti and a chicken breast with some cucumbers and v8. Will take another in 6 hours or so.

Nutrapro: delicious.

Eating a chicken breast with some white rice and soy sauce right now. Breakfast of oatmeal and boiled eggs in 3 hours.

Workout!:

OK. HST seems rad. I did my 15RM finding today, and I am happy with the tempo of the workout, as well as how my body feels afterwards. I was slightly sore going into the gym, in my shoulders and lower back, but I feel like I got accurate RMs. I can always change it when I get to that point anyway though.

Flat Bench 15RM: 135lbs
Dips 15RM: Body Weight
Chin-ups 15RM: Body Weight
Bent-over rows 15RM: 90lbs
Military press 15RM: 65lbs (felt like I could do more but pulling the bar off the rack sucked cuz my shoulders were sore lol)
BB Curl 15RM: 50lbs (this one may be higher, well see)
Tri-extension 15RM: 45lbs
Squat 15RM: 110lbs (yuck, I know this one is higher, but I was focusing on form very hard)
Deadlift 15RM: 135lbs
Calf Raise 15RM: 50lb DB
Shrug 15RM: 90lbs

Like I said up above, I was surprised that my Bench max was so high, I started a lot lower and ended up doing like 4 sets, I did 135 like 8 times or something so did random made up math and decided I could do it 15 times fresh easily. But because of that some excercises, particulary bb curl, might have been a little low =x

For bo row, squat, and shrug I used the powersquat? machine =x I don't know what its called, the squat rack where the bar is attached to a slide and you rotate it out of the hooks. I think tomorrow I will use it for the military press also, I can situate a bench under it better than with a free bar, and I was wondering it it is ok to use one of those for deads or am I better off using a free bar, I'm fairly sure you'll tell me to shutup and use the free bar though :P

Oh, that HST routine will be split into 6 days, upper lower upper lower upper lower rest repeat. I am thinking of doing two sets of the upper bodies and 3 sets of the lower bodies, what do you guys think? Should I just stay with one set? Tomorrow is 10RM and then 5RM next day, then a couple days off and I start $$

[John Smeton]

In. will catch up later

[permanabol]

Never use the smith(thats the thing on the track). do everything free weight you can **** yourself up in the smith with squats and bench + the bar is only 15 pounds or so.... and from what i remember hst was a full body 1 day thing
http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_II.html
and your deadlift should shoot up once you start!