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I almost feel guilty about posting my results today. I had a third oddly successful day and rather then going into details about the various mediating variables, I'll accredit my overwhelming results today to these top three markers:
#1. 40% due to More "radical" neuromuscular enhancements taking place.
#2. 30% due to new level of acquired LBM in the past 3 months of hypertophic lifting, producing new levels of strength.
#3. 20% due to PRIME
What about diet? Did you have an extremely high carb breakfast that could have provided a substantial amount of energy? No. I ate 3 black sesame cubes, literally, totaling 12g (good) fats, 30g carbs for my PRIME intake, didn't have time for a real breakfast, although I cooked one up. I had to run out the door to get to work on time. This was at 5:45am. I worked out at 8:30am with those same 3 cubes of black sesame. (it's a Chinese snack, we make all type of vegetables, seeds and nuts into snacks)
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Lat Pull Downs - Wide, overhand
250lbs x 10 [way the hell too easy this morning]
290lbs x 10 reps [+20lbs All Time PR]
295lbs x 8 reps [+25lbs All Time PR]
300lbs x 6 reps [+30lbs All Time PR]
[Yeah..... I have no words or rational explanation to justify this. I literally don't know what to say. I almost wanted to intentionally low ball my numbers due to my apprehension to report these gains.]
[Performance Rating: New Waters]
Lat Pull Downs - Close, underhand
250lbs x 10 reps [+40lbs at this point of the workout PR]
270lbs x 8 reps [+40lbs at this point of the workout PR]
290lbs x 6 reps [+40lbs at this point of the workout PR]
[I know... please understand that I'm a grown @$$ man that works at a Law Firm as a paralegal and as a practicing Strength & Conditioning Specialist at a Performance Facility and attending University and serving an internship at an internationally renowned facility for older adult health. I bring this up to emphasize that I have no care or concern about impressing anyone or making some kind of image for myself on an internet board, my life is too busy and too real to be making things up for whatever reason. These are my numbers and it is what it is.
[Performance Rating: Excellent]
Lat Pull Downs - Neutral grip
250lbs x 8 reps [+20lbs at this point of the workout PR]
250lbs x 7 reps [+20lbs at this point of the workout PR]
250lbs x 6 reps [+20lbs at this point of the workout PR]
[Performance Rating: Excellent]
Hammer Lat Pulls
180lbs x 10 reps
200lbs 8 reps
220lbs x 6 reps
[Performance Rating: Average]
Hammer Lat Pull Pulls - Behind The Neck
180lbs x 10 reps
180lbs x 10 reps
180lbs x 10 reps
[Performance Rating: Below Average]
Body Weight Pull Ups
BW x 10 reps
BW x 10 reps
BW x 10 grueling reps
[Performance Rating: Average]
I'm almost hoping that nothing extraordinary happens in my next workout. It's uncharacteristic of me to provide PR numbers, because most of my logs are more volume based then intensity based.
Must Read, Volcom gone socialist for a day.
I want to bring another variable to light. I want to socialize my credit today and spread the wealth of praise. I can't rationalize today's gains. They were major to the point of disbelief, therefore, in my own way to make sense of it, I will socialize my credit.
Immediately prior to this PRIME log, I spent 30 days in a hypertrophy phase with BLUE GENE, I then extended that hypertrophy phase another 30 days, with BLUE GENE + BLUE UP, I then extended that hypertrophy phase another 30 days with White Flood + DTHC/Sunami/Icariin-50. Therefore, PRIME may be a "prime" catalyst for these gains, but I spent plenty of time, tears and toil building a foundation for these new neuromuscular mechanisms to expound upon.
In the natural order of things, I do make subtle weekly gains during a strength phase, but never to this degree. I'm a grown @$$ man with a real and currently irrationally busy life, I have no interests in fabricating anything for an internet board. I feel the need to reiterate this due to the negativity and ambiguity surrounding this product. FOR ME, it has exceeded expectations, though my expectations are rarely, prematurely set that high. I like to take it as it comes (no homo) and go with whatever my results are showing me.