Volcom's Fat Loss while Gaining Strength with RECREATE, DCP, AP/Pslin Log

All-out Biceps-only workouts are helluva lot of fun ! I had my evening two nights ago, and my bicep brachii is still aching ! LOL..

Keep it up, bro !

(btw, school's done with - apart from an essay I need to get in ASAP - so I'm about to start my crazy cardio $hit again .. Hoping you're up for the challenges ahead, even though you'll be pimpin the 3-AD ! ;))
 
TerribleTowel said:
Damn bro! That's some serious bicep strength right there!
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thanks, it should take me a couple weeks before my strength catches up to my current rep scheme. I'll probably have to cycle my entire body through this more voluminous regiment about two times, before I'm lifting at my strength potential. Right now my biggest short comings are muscle endurance and lactate threshhold, so my lifts aren't quite where they should be yet.
 
Rough Morning

Morning cardio was uncharacteristically difficult during and I'm having a hard time with the post.

HIIT
10 seconds rest between every interval, from beginning to end.

150 yard sprints x 5
100 yard sprints x 3
50 yard sprints x 3

Nothing extraordinary, but my legs turned to lead pretty quickly, where my sprints unwillingly turned into fast jogs, due to the sheer heaviness of my legs.

Do most people do their HIIT like this? with the 10 secs rest interval? It makes sense to me sometimes, but other times it seems a bit excessive and I can't imagine the average person being able to handle such short rests because it's an abnormal amount of pain and requires what I consider an extraordinary amount of mental discipline to keep truck'n on set after set.

P.S. You have to play my avi, it's the best
 
Love the avi man! What movie is that? I love how jet li is knocking dust of the other guys body every time he hits him.
 
Netflix time!
 
Recreate's Final Days

I ran the second portion of my Recomp with Recreate and DCP. I've ran out of DCP (I do have another bottle, but I'm saving it for the end of my next phase) so I'm running the Recreate solo.

I used to rave on and on about the thermogenic effect Recreate use to perpetuate, evidenced by sweating with minimal activity and an excessive amount of sweating. I've been running Recreate on 6 caps a day (which is two more then the bottle recommends). As I'm starting to see the bottom of my second bottle, the effects of Recreate had been progressively diminishing for a little while.

- Appetite Suppression is still golden.
- Energy was never really there.
- No longer sweating like I used to.

Perhaps I've built up a tolerance to Recreate by this point, which would make sense.

I did enjoy Recreate, it brought me down from 219lbs to 212lbs in almost 30 days. Of course I was very proactive with diet and cardio, which is something every fat loss plan requires. No such thing as a magic pill.

I would use Recreate again, matter of fact I am using Recreate again in about two months. Thank you USPLabs for a great product. Seacrest Out.

Not really, I still have to do PM cardio and I'll be logging my continued transitional lifting for another day or so.

My Recomp journey is not over, but my time with this supplement plan is nearing its end. Here's a peak at my next official run.

On Cycle
- 3-AD at 6 caps a day for 30 days
- MassFX at 6 caps a day for 30 days
- X-Factor at 3 caps a day for 30 days
- Lean Xtreme at 3-4 caps a day for 30 days

PCT
- aPCT at 3 caps a day for 30 days
- Retain 2 at 3 caps a day for 30 days
- MassFX at 4 caps for 15 days

Final Lap
- Recreate at 6 caps a day
- Leviathan Reloaded at 4 caps a day
- DCP at 6 caps a day
 
Best of luck to you with the next phase of your journey. Make sure you continue to log your progress and post a link here for us to your new log as I always enjoy following your progress.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing some awesome growth coming up, bro ! One helluva stack you've got there ! Best of luck !
 
Last Nights Cardio?!?!!

Stairmaster, level 12 for 40 min and I could have kept going except I had an appointment to pick up my girlfriend at the airport. It shocked the hell out of me!
 
Question for Volcom and Norwegian, as I see both of you enjoy the stairmaster as much as I do. With the stairmaster at my gym, when I set it to fat burner, it asks for my weight and to select a level from 1 to 20. Then it asks me to select a time length between 5 and 30 minutes. Is the stairmasters your using the same way and when you do more than 30 minutes, do you simply reset it and start again? Just wondering because I like being able to compare my cardio to yours.
 
TerribleTowel said:
Question for Volcom and Norwegian, as I see both of you enjoy the stairmaster as much as I do. With the stairmaster at my gym, when I set it to fat burner, it asks for my weight and to select a level from 1 to 20. Then it asks me to select a time length between 5 and 30 minutes. Is the stairmasters your using the same way and when you do more than 30 minutes, do you simply reset it and start again? Just wondering because I like being able to compare my cardio to yours.
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I can set mine up to 60 min
 
Kick @$$ Back

Barbell Rows
225lbs x 15 reps
245lbs x 12 reps
265lbs x 10 reps
285lbs x 10 reps
305lbs x 8 reps

Inlcine Bench, Double Db Rows
85lbs Db's x 15 reps
90lbs Db's x 12 reps
95lbs Db's x 10 reps
100lbs Db's x 10 reps
105lbs Db's x 8 reps

Pull Ups, undergrip
BW x 13 reps
BW x 11 reps
BW x 7 reps
BW x 7 reps
BW x 6 reps

Lat Pull Down Machine
140lbs x 15 reps
150lbs x 12 reps
170lbs x 10 reps
185lbs x 10 reps
200lbs x 8 reps

Seated Shrugs Machine
270lbs x 15 reps
290lbs x 12 reps
320lbs x 10 reps
340lbs x 10 reps
360lbs x 8 reps

Machine Pull Overs
140lbs x 15 reps
150lbs x 12 reps
170lbs x 10 reps
185lbs x 10 reps
200lbs x 8 reps

I'm still about two weeks off from lifting at my strength potential. Right now my biggest limiter is lack of muscle endurance and less then par lactate threshhold. My strength on all these high volume reps will take a jump in about a week or two.
 
Cscs

I take my NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist test tomorrow. It's a $400 test and takes about 3.5 hours to complete. It's hard to study for it because it tests over all, aquired knowledge over exercise physiology, anatomy and human physiology, biomechanics, endrocinology, nutrition, regiment implications for all athletic & sports needs and I'm sure a lot of velocity principles.

P.S. I'm still on Recreate and will continue to be until Monday. Tuesday I intend on starting my new stack & log
 
TerribleTowel said:
Well damn, maybe they're different machines then. That sucks as I like being able to compare you and Norwegian's workouts to my own. Maybe I can set it to 60 even though it says between 5 and 30. I'll have to check next time.
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Our stair-"stepper" only allows up to 40 min or Stair-"climber" allows up to 60 min. You can always just finish and re-start. I've had to do that on the stair-stepper on a couple occassions.
 
TerribleTowel said:
Well damn, maybe they're different machines then. That sucks as I like being able to compare you and Norwegian's workouts to my own. Maybe I can set it to 60 even though it says between 5 and 30. I'll have to check next time.
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I think different facilities can set the limit to what they want even on the same machine
 
TerribleTowel said:
Question for Volcom and Norwegian, as I see both of you enjoy the stairmaster as much as I do. With the stairmaster at my gym, when I set it to fat burner, it asks for my weight and to select a level from 1 to 20. Then it asks me to select a time length between 5 and 30 minutes. Is the stairmasters your using the same way and when you do more than 30 minutes, do you simply reset it and start again? Just wondering because I like being able to compare my cardio to yours.
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Here at gold's we have two fairly new stairmaster machines - a year old I believe - and it goes from 0 - 99 minutes, and level 0 - 20, but other than that, you just choose your bodyweight, and mode, so it's pretty much the same. Just make sure you restart immidiately after the 30-40 minutes are up ! LOL
 
VolcomX311 said:
I take my NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist test tomorrow. It's a $400 test and takes about 3.5 hours to complete. It's hard to study for it because it tests over all, aquired knowledge over exercise physiology, anatomy and human physiology, biomechanics, endrocinology, nutrition, regiment implications for all athletic & sports needs and I'm sure a lot of velocity principles.

P.S. I'm still on Recreate and will continue to be until Monday. Tuesday I intend on starting my new stack & log
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Best of luck to ya on your test !
 
Norwegian said:
Here at gold's we have two fairly new stairmaster machines - a year old I believe - and it goes from 0 - 99 minutes, and level 0 - 20, but other than that, you just choose your bodyweight, and mode, so it's pretty much the same. Just make sure you restart immidiately after the 30-40 minutes are up ! LOL
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Yea that's what I do when I do more than 30 minutes. I'll just restart it immediately and then continue.
 
VolcomX311 said:
I take my NSCA Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist test tomorrow. It's a $400 test and takes about 3.5 hours to complete. It's hard to study for it because it tests over all, aquired knowledge over exercise physiology, anatomy and human physiology, biomechanics, endrocinology, nutrition, regiment implications for all athletic & sports needs and I'm sure a lot of velocity principles.

P.S. I'm still on Recreate and will continue to be until Monday. Tuesday I intend on starting my new stack & log
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Best of luck with your test today. I'm sure you'll ace it.
 
My CSCS test,

Well, the test took 3 1/2 hours to complete. There are two sections; two seperate tests. First portion is more of the physiological, biomechanical, nutritional and endocrinelogical; the science part. Which I passed. I considered this to be the harder part of the test.

The second part is more of the application. They have you watch a 10 sec clips and you have to make a diagnosis, correction, addition; what I considered the easy part. This is cumulative know-how knowledge, which I felt was where my strength was, but I failed this part of the test. There a lot of normative standard statisical questions I wasn't aware about and even some weird, NSCA gym protocol set up questions I wasn't prepared for. Anyway, I have to spend another $250 to take the second portion of the test.

I'm 1/2 CSCS :frustrate
 
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VolcomX311 said:
My CSCS test,

Well, the test took 3 1/2 hours to complete. There are two sections; two seperate tests. First portion is more of the physiological, biomechanical, nutritional and endocrinelogical; the science part. Which I passed. I considered this to be the harder part of the test.

The second part is more of the application. They have you watch a 10 sec clip and you have to make a diagnosis, correction, addition; what I considered the easy part. This is cumulative know-how knowledge, which I felt was where my strength was, but I failed this part of the test. There a lot of normative standard statisical questions I wasn't aware about and even some weird, NSCA gym protol set up questions I wasn't prepared for. Anyway, I have to spend another $250 to take the second portion of the test.

I'm 1/2 CSCS :frustrate
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Bro, I am so sorry to hear that ! Don't give yourself too hard a time, though .. like you said, there were some completely random questions on there, and you'd have no idea how to prepare for those !

- Still, you're halfway there .. I know it doesn't sound like much considering you're having to throw down another $250, but take it for what it's worth, bro, and best of luck when it comes back up again !
 
great log so far, i was wondering about the DCP though. You dont seem to mention it much or its effect it had on your weight loss. can u explain your impressions of DCP. thanks
 
justing said:
great log so far, i was wondering about the DCP though. You dont seem to mention it much or its effect it had on your weight loss. can u explain your impressions of DCP. thanks
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DCP doesn't really elicit any kind of notible effects. It's a non-stimulant and its role is to help drive fat into the mitochondria for oxidation. The only way to measure DCP is to run it alone, but I've used DCP on many occassions in the past and have experienced what DCP does, so I was less inclined to report on it. My focus was primarily on Recreate. However, to help answer your question, in a fat loss "plan" there are so many mediating variables that will influence the outcome of weight loss. I can't objectively write, "Recreate made me lose 6lbs" obviously my diet and my intense & disciplined cardio was the true driving factor, and Recreate augmented the process. The only thing I could objectively report about Recreate are its physiological effects. Loss of appetite and its most prominant effect, an incredibly high thermogenic response, evidenced by sweating in response to minimal physical activity and sweating profusely above & beyond my normal perspiration level.

If you wanted an idea on how to measure something as subtle and behind the scenes as DCP, then theoretically, you should be able to maintain your caloric intake and still notice a loss of fat mass.

I'm not as big of a DCP fan as most, because I am heavily influenced by perceivable or notable physiological responses, but I know DCP is "good" and is a non-stimulant, which makes it a great addition to any caffeine containing fat loss supp.
 
Norwegian said:
Bro, I am so sorry to hear that ! Don't give yourself too hard a time, though .. like you said, there were some completely random questions on there, and you'd have no idea how to prepare for those !

- Still, you're halfway there .. I know it doesn't sound like much considering you're having to throw down another $250, but take it for what it's worth, bro, and best of luck when it comes back up again !
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I could see it as cup half full, but its going to look half empty until my frustration leaves. Being so close makes it so much more of a sting. And they're questions that I couldn't have foreseen, which adds to the frustration, but thats life and the real world. I'm still pissed, but I appreciate the support.
 
Gotta Keep on Truck'n

Well guys, I payed the $200 (my S&C professor, Dr. Brown, who also happens to the be the President of the NSCA, offered a discount code) and I just re-registered for the second portion of the exam (the one I failed). I have an idea of what to expect and I'm going to take the test in posing trunks and coconut oil to make it more hardcore... I'm not, but I'll be more ready this time :dance:
 
VolcomX311 said:
Well guys, I payed the $200 (my S&C professor, Dr. Brown, who also happens to the be the President of the NSCA, offered a discount code) and I just re-registered for the second portion of the exam (the one I failed). I have an idea of what to expect and I'm going to take the test in posing trunks and coconut oil to make it more hardcore... I'm not, but I'll be more ready this time :dance:
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Keep your head up bro and don't worry I'm sure you'll ace it next time, especially now that you have more of an idea of what it's going to be like. How long do you have to wait before you take it again?
 
TerribleTowel said:
Keep your head up bro and don't worry I'm sure you'll ace it next time, especially now that you have more of an idea of what it's going to be like. How long do you have to wait before you take it again?
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Not long, it's more of a matter of "when they offer it" rather then a required down time, but they don't offer it that often.
 
I've been pounding carbs all weekend (probably around 200-300g for the day) to get my glycogen stores up and ready for my new 3-AD/MassFX phase. It is really mess'n with my head.
 
VolcomX311 said:
I've been pounding carbs all weekend (probably around 200-300g for the day) to get my glycogen stores up and ready for my new 3-AD/MassFX phase. It is really mess'n with my head.
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Since you're finally endulging in 'some' carbs daily, do you find it harder to stop eating them now ? Do you have more temptations ? I noticed that as soon as I was going to do simply lowER carb (than when I was off my diet), I ended up splurging a whole helluva lot. My new diet, with no/low carbs, starts tomorrow, but I'm worried that I'll won't be able to get back to it .... (without massive carb temptations ...)
 
Norwegian said:
Since you're finally endulging in 'some' carbs daily, do you find it harder to stop eating them now ? Do you have more temptations ? I noticed that as soon as I was going to do simply lowER carb (than when I was off my diet), I ended up splurging a whole helluva lot. My new diet, with no/low carbs, starts tomorrow, but I'm worried that I'll won't be able to get back to it .... (without massive carb temptations ...)
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This is just my second day of allowing carbs to infest my diet, so I don't think its had time to become habitual. I restart my diet either tomorrow or the next day.

It is hard to sink back into a low/no carb diet if my tastes buds have gotten used to "good tasting" (carb loaded) foods, but I don't think I'm there yet.

I just had Mother's Day dinner and we went to a Thai Restaurant where I went to town and back on the Phad Thai noodles, oh gawd..... so I'm feeling like a fat bastard.
 
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Hope to see you guys there. I almost didn't even start a new thread because I was glad just to have you guys, but my next log will be an interesting "experiment" and I thought some other people might want to try it also, if all goes well.
 
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