[jimbuick]

No more sports talk from me. All buisness on here from now on from me

Finally! It's the moment we've all been waiting for!

[rob112]

Lmao what the ****

[CountryLiftin]

Is this still anabolic minds?

[Sean1332]

will the dude lift a weight already to change this subject?!?!

[herderdude]

I'm tired, bro! 50 square of shingles, up the ladder, down the ladder, up the ladder, down the ladder. I was at the convenience store trying to grab some lunch and I'm wobbling like a damn Jell-O sculpture.

[CountryLiftin]

Then get to bed and get some rest. Heal up and kill something tomorrow. I miss lifting weights...

Back to some BS sports talk....

[herderdude]

Weight is 233. Fück yeah. Nice easy cut.

Gonna bench in a minute here. Basically going to do my warmup routine for the meet, some pausers, JMs, then do some rows with light weight, pull ups, pullaparts, preacher curls, what have you.

[herderdude]

Sean wanted me to lift already, the Dude abides. Woo buddy, feeling goooooood.

Bench

Barx5 sets
95x2x5
135x5
185x5
245x3
295x1
315x1

Took me a good while to settle into my arch, hence a gajillion sets under 100lbs. I won't have that kind of time on meet day, unless I'm in the most courteous and leisurely warmup group I've ever seen. That's alright, I will adapt as necessary come meet day. Weight felt heavy in my hands until I got up to 245.

Arm that always bothers me was bothering me. I expected it to do so, from doing plumbing stuff on Monday and Tuesday. My arm felt like it was going to fall off crimping fittings, so I'm actually happy about how it felt today. Blew everything up, too. Then I threw down a little challenge set.

Lilly Pauser (5 mississippi)
245x5 @9

The rest of the session was my normal assistance at weights that were on the light side of normal, but still with a weight that I would use in serious training. Just did half the volume and minimum number of reps, eights instead of tens, and tens instead of 15s.

Pullups
2x5

High Pulley
2x10

Facepulls
2x10

Pullaparts
4x10

Delt Raises (side and front like always)
2x8

DB Preacher
4x10 needed the stretching

Poundstone Curls
Bar x50 that's a first, I believe. Pretty cool, huh? My arms must be at least 13% more jacked from all of the Poundstone curls I've been doing.

Felt good to get back at it. If I ever take three days off again, just slap me.

[AZMIDLYF]

[herderdude]

Yesss! My goatee is coming along nicely, though my hair will never be that excellent. Which is . . . like . . . A bummer, man.

[AZMIDLYF]

Hah...unfortunately I am in Sean's boat with the hairstyle. Lol

[Sean1332]

Hah...unfortunately I am in Sean's boat with the hairstyle. Lol

eh I tried grownin it out recently..then I saw a pic of myself and I still looked bald lol MPB isn't even in my family!

[AZMIDLYF]

Like Clint Eastwood said: "A man's got to know his limitations" Lol

[herderdude]

I'm creeping up on MPB slowly but surely. Even when I had my full complement of hair, it was so curly and thick that it would just look like a brushpile instead of flowing epically.

[jimbuick]

I'm creeping up on MPB slowly but surely. Even when I had my full complement of hair, it was so curly and thick that it would just look like a brushpile instead of flowing epically.

Mine is curly and thick as well.

Gonna keep it growing anyway lol.

[herderdude]

Mine is curly and thick as well.

Gonna keep it growing anyway lol.

Afro. 'Fro sho.

[AZMIDLYF]

My 22yr old is reppin the Dan Green flow these days...

[herderdude]

My 22yr old is reppin the Dan Green flow these days...

Too lucky.

[jinxie]

I'm creeping up on MPB slowly but surely. Even when I had my full complement of hair, it was so curly and thick that it would just look like a brushpile instead of flowing epically.

LOL. Well put.

You use minoxidil, keto shampoo, and/or finasteride? They work, of course the latter will reduce DHT, which I find can compromise explosiveness and also make you wetter. But the first 2 are totally benign and can be effective, particularly for thinning at the crown. Heh, heh, I said crown. I will add frenulum for shytz and giggles.

And nice return to training. I just took 3 days in a row off myself, for the second time since Thanksgiving.

[herderdude]

LOL. Well put.

You use minoxidil, keto shampoo, and/or finasteride? They work, of course the latter will reduce DHT, which I find can compromise explosiveness and also make you wetter. But the first 2 are totally benign and can be effective, particularly for thinning at the crown. Heh, heh, I said crown. I will add frenulum for shytz and giggles.

And nice return to training. I just took 3 days in a row off myself, for the second time since Thanksgiving.

Good advice, thanks Jinxie. Really it probably comes down to my using DHT based compounds at the higher end of normal dosing on and off for the past year and a half. So if I weren't doing it to myself, I'd be more inclined to stop it. Plus, I've known my fate from a young age, my family has a 100% rate of baldness. It's not a huge concern of mine to take the razor to my head, my scalp is absolutely gorgeous. I'm already a pretty wet guy as it is, and I LOVE epi/SD/SDMZ/stano etc. for the strength, explosiveness, and hardening effects.

[jinxie]

Good advice, thanks Jinxie. Really it probably comes down to my using DHT based compounds at the higher end of normal dosing on and off for the past year and a half. So if I weren't doing it to myself, I'd be more inclined to stop it. Plus, I've known my fate from a young age, my family has a 100% rate of baldness. It's not a huge concern of mine to take the razor to my head, my scalp is absolutely gorgeous. I'm already a pretty wet guy as it is, and I LOVE epi/SD/SDMZ/stano etc. for the strength, explosiveness, and hardening effects.

Makes total sense.

Gorgeous head -- you've planted a seed in mind, for something to receive tonight, after 8 days away from the missus.

[herderdude]

Pulls were straight up ass today. Couldn't find my groove, felt like I was out of position. Belt was too tight, it was all weird.

Started with 245, felt the same way all the >50% weights feel when I warm up for pulls: weird. 335 took me about 6 singles before I moved it satisfactorily. When I finally did, I hit a weightless one. 425 I just did maybe 4 conventional and 3 sumo. They moved good too. 475 conventional twice wasn't pretty. Gonna do some pulling with 365 on Tuesday and Saturday next week to groove myself again. I've done this enough times to know I'd pull amazing tomorrow, but the meet is next Sunday.

Looking back, I think the time off this week kind of had my body a little shocked by the weight.

[jinxie]

Positive thinking. It's all good. No second guessing. Eye on the ball.

Or deez ballz, given recent themes today.

[herderdude]

Positive thinking. It's all good. No second guessing. Eye on the ball.

Or deez ballz, given recent themes today.

You're right. I had a battle going on in my head the whole session and a short while after. I was working hard to not get down on my efforts and start worrying about meet day. Luckily, experience and film prevailed. I actually went back to the tape and looked at the two previous weeks' work with 475, and I wasn't that much slower today. Just felt slow and heavy because some days it does that.

[herderdude]

Just saw TSO at Consol Energy Center. Hell of a show.