Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Those types of workouts make you go WHAT THE.... I remeber my very first GVT training, 10 sets of 10 squats and stiff leg deads. Holy crap I totally shot my load by the 5th set. I couldn't get out of the bottom of the squat to save my life. My hammies had nothing left to give. I really had to adjust the SLD down some to make it through the workout.
Yesterday had a mixed cardio day, 20 minutes interval on treadmill and 25 minutes on bike. Total 470 Cals, the teardrops right at the knees where burning by the end of the bike ride. I was pushing relatively hard.
Today was a great workout, a little bit of feeling out period since I changed the workout up. On several lifts the weights either went down just a little or stayed the same. With the progression of the program there is some unavoidable see-sawing that happens sometimes between the rep ranges. It is a good thing in this case as I am out of my SuperCissusRx now and have fallen to my back up supply of NP Cissus 5% extract. I am trying to take about the same as before however I can feel the stress on my joints more now than before. Currently money is a little tight so I wont be able to getmore SCRx until much later unless the bulk becomes available again soon. I hope the elbows hold out, moving to a little heavier dose of the bulk to see if that helps.
The review of my 2 weeks in the 15 reps range was that I did indeed get stronger in every lift through out the 15 rep range. NICE!!!!!
On another note, I weighed in at 198 3/4 dry yesterday before cardio, but I was still sporting abs, they had not smoothed over. I know my muscles were supersaturated and wish it would have been a weight workout day. This was a post carb up weekend weigh in inspired from curiosity and I am not considering it my current weight. While I am clean bulking every other weekend is a heavy carb weekend. I eat mostly clean but have my treats that weekend and use my P-Slin and what not to really get it into the muscle. Obviously my body is handling the carbing up really well as i said my abs were still showing even at 198 3/4. I imagine I will be sitting around 196 by the end of the week in my "normal" fed state. I am definitely growing though. My shirts are fitting much tighter and my thighs are really filling out my pants more. I am noticing my legs getting more vascular as well so no fat is coming on the legs. So far I am loving this stack. First time to see what PRIME can do for me when eating to grow muscle.
SO FAR RESULTS ARE EXCITING!!!!
I am honestly very happy now with my decision to hold off on the October contest and do one next season instead. I can see me coming in a lot bigger and more refined. Can't wait to see what the old calves look like after a year of training.
I just verified my account has been reactivated at BushiBan that is my Karate / MMA class. I have been waiting for the few months that I turned the draft off to be over. I temporarily froze it a few months back to keep me from hurting myself. Well the self imposed hiatus is over and now I am going back to train. I am excited and nervous as many of the guys I used to spank will probably have thier oppurtunity to exact revenge upon me. Regardless of lifting weights with minimal rest and typical/atypical cardio I do. My conditioning is nowhere nere where it needs to be to last on the mat with these guys. I train at a very competitive school and most of the guys that train there are real fighters not just training for fitness and or bragging rights. So here comes the pain, but in a good way. Seeing as I am not competing in any bodybuilding shows until next summer I may shoot for a grappling tourney that is in mid-February. I still have to see how the old chest holds up but I think it should be ok. Wish me luck. Hopefully the new muscle I have will be help enough to keep me from getting smacked around too much. Of course it will backfire at first too much muscle burning things up too quickly them BAM puke time! Ah I will take some Scope and get back in it after a good gargle.
Boro, I will definitely hit you up on some of the GPP stuff as i am sure I will have questions. I know I am for sure making a sled now, and a slosh pipe really looks interesting, maybe even two shorter ones with some handles for lunging down the street talk about core strength for that one. Just ideas that pop in my head when I see things like this. I have always enjoyed employing water based resistance training because of the functional strength it provides. Did not realize there was a movement behind it. Here I thought I was creative.
Whoops had a bit of a slip of temper yesterday and caught myself before a flare up today. Now I have mentioned that I have a lot of repairs I need to get done at home. Have had some frustration but generally been manageable. Yesterday I snapped at someone for something I normally would have let slide. I also enforced my personal space in a situation where I may normally have stepped over away from the person instead of saying anything. Not in a negative way just made them aware that I was in the space they were trying to occupy and had no intention of moving. This morning I caught myself amping up in a frustrating situation and checked it because I know now to be on the watch for it.
Awareness is the key, I just have to recognise the feeling in the seconds it starts and squash it before reacting to it. There is an internal ferocity that kind of boils in preparation for conflict, the fight or flight response. Well that seems to be rising up in annoying or frustrating situations an not just dangerous ones. I think that is tthe best way to explain the flare ups experienced. The feeling is the feeling you get when severely angered or threatened except smaller stimilus wants to trigger it. I feel the release of adrenaline and I have to keep the reaction in check. It is not something that is a problem so much as it is just out of character for me and I should mention it. It did this last time around the month mark. I was able to keep it in check for the most part but a few times it caught me off guard. It is not any stronger this time but that familiar feeling, the total ALPHA MALE feeling. My "personal space" when in alpha male mode becomes an issue of personal territory and not personal space. LOL I am the ruler in the 3 foot bubble surrounding me and you need to be aware of that. Smell my phermones and "Kneel before Zod!"
On another note I am unintentionally leaning up this week. I missed a meal a couple of times this week due to a lot going on at home and work, and have noticed my obliques tightening. My chest, and traps are looking great, vacularity is increasing. I am trying to put a little size on the delts now that I can do some of the moves I could not before due to tendonitis.