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Derailing the Epistane Train

switched to timbersplit a couple days ago, makes today another leg day. going to keep squats light and go for widows @ 135. gotta start somewhere!
 
i do believe this body i've got to work with needs more core training. the only thing that really bothered me on that 20x135 was my back, and it was fine, but it's the only thing that talked to me. same on leg press.

and i think i have been breathing wrong on leg press so i started back at sled + 2 plates working on breathing for about 5x5. i noticed i was holding my breath and made my head hurt like ****, so bad technique there.

im thinking of going the way of djbombguywhatever and making videos so you guys can tell me the zillion things im doing wrong. esp in squats and all that nonsense. it would require me being slightly less lazy but might be worth it.

had to pry myself from the gym today, was very very very awesome day. im sure friday has something to do with it, or the band im about to go see (local cover ****, god bless the bar scene).

you guys have a good weekend. this weekend is all cardio (yard work), lots of trees and bushes to continue clearing!
 
rbuecker said:
i do believe this body i've got to work with needs more core training. the only thing that really bothered me on that 20x135 was my back, and it was fine, but it's the only thing that talked to me. same on leg press.

and i think i have been breathing wrong on leg press so i started back at sled + 2 plates working on breathing for about 5x5. i noticed i was holding my breath and made my head hurt like ****, so bad technique there.

im thinking of going the way of djbombguywhatever and making videos so you guys can tell me the zillion things im doing wrong. esp in squats and all that nonsense. it would require me being slightly less lazy but might be worth it.

had to pry myself from the gym today, was very very very awesome day. im sure friday has something to do with it, or the band im about to go see (local cover ****, god bless the bar scene).

you guys have a good weekend. this weekend is all cardio (yard work), lots of trees and bushes to continue clearing!
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yeah videos would be awesome. sometimes you can hold your breath for certain excersizes to create a block for your ribcage so it doesnt colapse in on your organs. Like durring a deadlift.
 
been battling a bitch of a headache all week, finally decided to take yesterday off and sleep a bit extra. that's the reason i took my bp measurement above, i thought it might be high. regardless, my eyes were still bloodshot more than normal. did the next thing i could think of and bumped up food/water. im sure all three (food/water/sleep) helped and im finally good today. i really think i just slept in a really messed up position on friday, but who knows.

killed 5x310 dead today (after 3x135 3x225 warm up). for once i was just insanely out of breath instead of feeling anything in my lower back. im pissed, im sure i had at least one more in me. i had racked up 4x45 and then set up 2x25 and 4x10 just in case 310 was too much, but that sleep yesterday must have really helped.
 
dear summertime,

you are a piece of crap for giving my bread the mold. i hope you are happy.

sincerely,
hungry bastard
 
TimberLakers said:
You gotta fridge up pimp!!! Just warm it in the toaster for a second... all good.
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man last week i ate at this small Diner with some people from work, we had a co-worker who was leaving and we threw her a "going away lunch". i remember telling the waitress not to toast my bread, but when it came it was obviously toasted. you know how it has that slight crisp feel on the surface, but it was really light like they forgot i said not to and took the bread out really fast. turns out, it was just really really damn stale.

im out of eggs, so i decided to make chicken for breakfast and tossed a bunch of cheese on there :D
 
excellent shoulder day today, give it all of my effort and felt really good afterward.

i'll give you the numbers here so you can see i still have a long way to go

overhead press

5x85
5x105
5x85
5x65
5x85

today was the first day i did not feel this exercise entirely in my middle back, but in my anterior delts. that is why i judge today a great success here alone.

arnolds
5x20
5x25
5x30
good god fail .5 x 35
5x30
5x30

db raises
10x20
10x25
10x25
10x30
10x35

i meant to do shrugs, but i dont mind that i skipped/forgot about them

came home and have been cutting down trees and bushes and **** all afternoon. i love having the day off, makes me want to get a home internet business selling DTH so i can quit my job!@#&*()!@#
 
oh yeah, there was a leg day on saturday. my lower back was still recovering from 5x310 deads so squats suffered. leg press was good 8 plates for 5 for my main working set. leg curls were decent as well, i forget the numbers but no regrets on my performance sat morning. this is a pretty bad ass week so far.

i did recently change my multi to zmk (i think that's what it's called). costs more and lasts shorter than my previous, however i'm waking up ready to kick ass every day so far. also going to start playing around with melatonin/gaba/phenibut so pretty excited there.
 
oh and try as hard as i might to eat more every day, my weight is staying the same. hopefully im burning off some of this weight gainer fat. started doing hammerstrength for bench at the gym i normally go to on the way home from work. i feel better about failing on that equipment than on a bench. what im really hoping is that it equates to being able to bench more freeweight even if the numbers are less than on hammer. i will continue doing db bench at the end of my workout to keep working on stabilizing.

normally i only bench ~155, i have problems getting the bar from rest to ready higher weight than that. but with hammer i can load up 185 and rock out.
 
missed the 310 dead today, back just didnt feel right. im sure i could have had one at least but best to be safe than sorry. i made sure to begin enforcing punishments for missing a goal

3x225 was supposed to warm up into 5+x310
5x275
5x275
5x225
10x135

and a bunch of pullups and rows and things like that. now that i think about it, i totally forgot db rows. damnit.
 
the nice thing about a 24x7 not always staffed gym with key card access is that somedays, like today, you get the entire damn place to yourself for an hour- and then the complete book of being nice to others etiquette gets thrown out the window and louder grunts, disregard for gas passing, and still louder cursing fills the air. god bless america :usa1:

today was legs and arms, and for curls i just started using the 45# bar from the bench and throwing 10s on it until my wrist said enough. can't wait to stack 45s on that thing!!!

lots of tricep pushdowns various angles were involved today

started out w/ squats @ 10x135 5x155 5x175 5x195 10x135
lower back has been bothering me a little so im sticking with basically this layout until the discomfort disappears. also threw in a rest day yesterday to try and help, giving me rest on fri/sun.

leg press, 10x2 plates, 5x4, 5x6, 5x8, 5x6, 5x4, 15x2

calves, 5x10x330

intensity was extremely high today, i'm attributing that to the banana consumed 20 minutes prewo. also snuck in 5x135 bench because there were a bunch of a$shats that left weights set all over the place. that always pisses me off, but it's a good opportunity to lift just a little extra. threw in some pullups as well but nothing exciting (5 just to help with the back, and some back extensions).

talk about an A.D.D. post... carry on, and happy weekend. now to enjoy some gaba and melatonin :fing02:
 
TimberLakers said:
Haha, you want to curl 135 on an Olympic? That's huge dude!
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lol thanks, i have to keep the grip a little wider than i want or my wrists give me hell. not pussying out for an ezbar though, im dedicated to curling with the olympic- one day i'll be adding on to 135 on that bitch. yesterday had it at 95. i don't think it will be too much longer before 45s are on the end with all of the work that gets thrown in to arms throughout the rest of the week. the insanity is just beginning!!!!!!!!
 
Random181 said:
Am I just the odd one out the Ez bars are the only thing to ever hurt my wrists?..
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You're probably holding it wrong.

Or maybe too much weight?

For curls you should be on the outside contour - so that your thumbs are pointing up and to the outside of your body.
 
for those who are following, life has gotten in the way of my anabolic minds indulgence. im sure thousands of pages have passed me in the subscribed threads, but i'll live :)

ive had some crazy nasty sinus infection over the past week or so that has considerably lengthened my recovery time (by more than just a day or 2). so im on a conservative schedule now that is dictated by how i feel.

and! ive quit my job, but i started the new job monday and that whole process was pretty time consuming.

still eating and lifting big, and sleeping even bigger these days :D

laters!
 
Getting better at deads, I think my long break hurt cns capacity a bit because I don't think my muscles really gave up but it just sort of seemed like I was done and couldnt pull it off the floor anymore. Working set was 5x310, warm ups 10x225.

I am set on moving gym to the morning, tomorrow will be legs @ 5am. Woot! Also, thanks GMG for the inspiration on your squat post, good stuff!
 
rbuecker said:
Getting better at deads, I think my long break hurt cns capacity a bit because I don't think my muscles really gave up but it just sort of seemed like I was done and couldnt pull it off the floor anymore. Working set was 5x310, warm ups 10x225.

I am set on moving gym to the morning, tomorrow will be legs @ 5am. Woot! Also, thanks GMG for the inspiration on your squat post, good stuff!
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Hey bro where the heck have you been? How are thing on your end of the world?
 
manny1010 said:
Hey bro where the heck have you been? How are thing on your end of the world?
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hey bro, things are good, still taking it slow w/ 3 day split

going to visit my folks in august, i havent been back since 2005 so it will be cool to see my dad's side of the family again

still balls to the wall at the new job, definitely had to hit the ground running here. the place i left can all go to hell except for a few good workers, glad to be done with that place. less time for AM, but i dont mind :)

killing 2x cans of tuna, 1/2 gal chocolate milk, pistachios, and all natural wheatette crackers. i lost some weight lately, down to ~180 but i dont mind, again f*** the scale keep the strength going up.

good to hear from you man, how's your life been? any new threads around here i should check on?

later dude,
b
 
new toy started this week, melanotan II. trying to cut back on tanning bed use during winter, we'll see if this fades slower than natural in a few months.
 
summer is about over, time to get back into the death of an insane amount of calories. the summertime and the flu was good to me, lost a lot of bloat that i had- and managed to get my step brother to get his sh~t together in the gym finally. i think my aim for this next anabolic minds year for myself, is going to be more in the area of diet/nutrition. that is my main sticking point at this time, so let's kill it this year!

hope to catch my old friends around here and make a bunch of new ones. talk to you guys soon!
 
i finally stopped going to the local gym. with my schedule, it just doesnt work out and i grew tired of doing the same old thing. i began a new job last year, and turns out i work with another AM member. as a result, we've been doing the basement gym thing a few days a week, as we find time.

looks like i left off doing 175 max on squats, and we have that bumped up to solid 260 during week 5 of growth phase, so im happy to be making some good progress. plus there's a lot of violent screaming and general craziness going on the entire time.

all natty baby, screw PH.

time for more food, holla!
 
i know fitday is the common mantra, but for those of us who dont like being strapped to a computer all the time, i recommend "daily burn", almost entirely for the iphone app itself. i can search for the random food i've just eaten, and it will pull all of the stats from online and add them to what i've eaten for the day.

at my last job, i was able to keep track of everything with an excel spreadsheet, but now days that's just not happening, and this has been the answer.

and the real kicker is that, like any real iphone app, its basically an extension of a really WELL BUILT website, meaning you're not strapped to the stupid phone either.

someone out there has been tapping the collective mental consciousness and came up with this thing, its absolutely stellar. and we all know that when we're tracking, we're gaining. workouts, food, etc.

come to think of it, the only thing i dont track these days is sleep ;)
 
well the short story is i lied! three is an iphone app called "sleep cycle" that graphs your sleep and measures the amount of time spent sleeping. the actual alarm time is based on when you're most likely to be coming out of REM (so could be a little earlier than the alarm).

the idea is to actually be well rested, instead of forcing yourself awake in the middle of a cycle. you probably already know what that's like, getting up an hour before you intend to and being awake- just to fall back asleep and then struggle to get up when the alarm does go off.

so yeah, i lied- now im logging sleep as well! :aargh4:
 
Found my old calipers while cleaning out the living room, measured just over 12% bf. I've noticed it creeping up over the past few months- I used to intensely play drums for at least 2-4 hours a week and they're in need of some new heads so I can get them back into action. I also never do "gym cardio", and sit at my desk all day for work; that's going to change starting today with at least 5x a week. Nothing insane, just moderate for at least 2 miles in 30 minutes.
 
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