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6 Week Fat Loss Challenge

Tank999 said:
Day 29
Ok - either the higher dose of sup3r epi kicked in or it's a culminative effect, but today i was stronger on delt presses than I've been in a loooong time. AND its my 2nd day on super strict keto. Either way I'm gonna gamble and up the epi to 1000mg and see what happens.

I've cut down on my protein shakes - couldn't bring myself to cut them out completely, but I'm only doing 2-3 a day. And I've added in another meal. All meals made up of some kind of beef and 2-4 eggs. And I'm taking a refeed once a week for 90 minutes - within reason.

So today was delts and pecs. I walked in to do delt presses and the bar was already loaded with 135lbs, so I warmed up with 135 then tried jumping to 205 - and proceeded to do sets of 15! If things keep on like this I'm hoping to rep out on 225 by cycle end!

I then repped out on Hammer decline/incline and PecDec.
Good day at the gym!

Oh, and I'm not weighing myself for a while!
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Great job man. I think your new strategy should be a decent change for you. More solid food will help you stay satisfied and if anyone can stick to steak and eggs. .it's you!

FireTitan said:
Down a pound at 219 this morning and decided to run my previous HST plan I had so much success with earlier. Wore me out, but I didnt puke like the Captain did lol. Really enjoying my Thermogenesis!!
Warmup of 15 pushups and 15 goblet squats(45lbs)

Incline Bench
135x15(warmup)
205x15x2

BENT OVER BB ROWS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2

LOW CABLE FLYES
60x15x2

SQUATS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2

LEG EXTENSIONS
150x15x2

HAMMER CURLS
70x15x2

TRICEP PUSH DOWNS
180x15x2

LATERAL RAISES
25x15x2

ABS
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FireTitan said:
Wanted to add this in here. I put it on my Thermogenesis log and wanted to share with you guys. This is me last weekInvalid Link Removed
And this is me in August of 2015 before I joined AM. Invalid Link Removed
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Outstandingtastic. Those photos should make you proud. Not to steal SFreed's thunder - but you are yummy in both photos, but more Pillsbury doughboy type yummy in the before photo! Haha

You have learned out, but. You have obviously gained some serious muscle too.
 
HIT4ME said:
Great job man. I think your new strategy should be a decent change for you. More solid food will help you stay satisfied and if anyone can stick to steak and eggs. .it's you!





Outstandingtastic. Those photos should make you proud. Not to steal SFreed's thunder - but you are yummy in both photos, but more Pillsbury doughboy type yummy in the before photo! Haha

You have learned out, but. You have obviously gained some serious muscle too.
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Thanks boss! I think Im going to print that picture out and put it in my gym bag. Maybe it'll deter me from eating stupid crap and sitting on my arse!
 
Hey guys. With a lack of computer access and everything that's going on, I just came by to drop an update. I started "reverse dieting" last Thursday (Dec 1). Today this morning, I woke up at a relatively "full" 200 lbs (with carbs, water and everything) so the diet and reverse diet are overall a success. It will be another Week and a half until I continue cutting down. Keep up the good work guys! I've been following along but keeping up with phone only is tough.
 
ma70 said:
Hey guys. With a lack of computer access and everything that's going on, I just came by to drop an update. I started "reverse dieting" last Thursday (Dec 1). Today this morning, I woke up at a relatively "full" 200 lbs (with carbs, water and everything) so the diet and reverse diet are overall a success. It will be another Week and a half until I continue cutting down. Keep up the good work guys! I've been following along but keeping up with phone only is tough.
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Just touch base with us when you can and keep us up to date!!
 
I just wanted to offer some anecdote/advice/insight for those who constantly struggle with weighing themselves all the time and being discouraged. Literally as I took a dump right now (sorry if TMI), I weighed myself again and I am now 197.2 down from 200 (as of about 30-60 mins ago). Obviously my body (or me) is not accustomed to so much food volume (I'm eating 2650-2700 calories right now, 200 under new percieved maintenance). Anyways, don't worry about day to day weigh ins!
 
Today was day 2 of my HST program. Not huge numbers but I wanted to ensure I got all 15 reps in both sets for every lift. Feeling lighter today, but somehow fuller. Make sense?

B- WARMUP 15 lat pulldowns
30 walking lunges

FLAT DB PRESS
WARMUP 55x15
75x15x2

INCLINE FLYES
55x15x2

BENT OVER DB ROWS
90x15x2

DEADLIFTS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2

LYING LEG CURLS
100x15x2

SPIDER CURLS
45x15x2

SKULL CRUSHERS
100x15x2

HIGH FACE PULLS
160x15x2

LOW FACE PULLS
110x15x2
 
Day 30 - 251 lbs
Weight not budging right now but I switched my diet up and added another 500mg of epi so things should be changing. Next weigh in won't be till my friday refeed. Yes, I've gone to the darkside - I'm doing refeeds.....trying it on. I'm supposed to take a complete day every 6th day but i just can't do it. I'm starting with a cheat hour once a week.

Today I dosed 500mg epi pwo. Don't know what's supposed to happen but I was aggressive and strong. I did 2x20x540lbs on the Hammer shrug and i coulda easily done more. On the Hammer seated row I repped out on 450lbs...easily. Did some fatty pullups amd bent rows. All in all solid and controlled.

Food is still 3 protein shakes and 2 meals of beef and eggs.


Cheers
 
Tank999 said:
Day 30 - 251 lbs
Weight not budging right now but I switched my diet up and added another 500mg of epi so things should be changing. Next weigh in won't be till my friday refeed. Yes, I've gone to the darkside - I'm doing refeeds.....trying it on. I'm supposed to take a complete day every 6th day but i just can't do it. I'm starting with a cheat hour once a week.

Today I dosed 500mg epi pwo. Don't know what's supposed to happen but I was aggressive and strong. I did 2x20x540lbs on the Hammer shrug and i coulda easily done more. On the Hammer seated row I repped out on 450lbs...easily. Did some fatty pullups amd bent rows. All in all solid and controlled.

Food is still 3 protein shakes and 2 meals of beef and eggs.


Cheers
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dam! stronger than an ox!
 
Tank999 said:
Actually got a video taken today of my shrugs....wanted to check how high I'm actually shrugging and squeezing.....might figure out eventually how to post it up...:;)
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tease! I have never posted a video. I guess you use the the film strip looking icon?
 
Tank999 - awesome work man. Glad to see you doing a refeed...I think you will find it doesn't impact you as much as you would think if you do it right Killer strong.
 
HIT4ME said:
Tank999 - awesome work man. Glad to see you doing a refeed...I think you will find it doesn't impact you as much as you would think if you do it right Killer strong.
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Thanks - much appreciated!
I'm willing to try anything ....but I am gonna be careful....sorta.....no kitkats or peanut m&ms...... Seriously- instead of a refeed day as recommended by Vince, I'm gonna try a refeed meal; just carb up using mostly healthy stuff....hope it works
 
Studhorse said:
Look at those arms! You need an anchor tat on that naked forearm.
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That would be nice!! But ever since I got the sleeve on the other arm, the town I work for has changed the rules to where anytime we do anything "Official" or in Town Hall, I have to have my arms covered. Bullshyt! They were going to make me wear long sleeves all year but the Chief talked them out if it.. for now. Oh yeah,and thanks
 
FireTitan said:
That would be nice!! But ever since I got the sleeve on the other arm, the town I work for has changed the rules to where anytime we do anything "Official" or in Town Hall, I have to have my arms covered. Bullshyt! They were going to make me wear long sleeves all year but the Chief talked them out if it.. for now. Oh yeah,and thanks
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I see that a lot. Guys having to cover there tats. Pretty stupid. It's not like you have a big penis on your arm.
 
Studhorse said:
I see that a lot. Guys having to cover there tats. Pretty stupid. It's not like you have a big penis on your arm.
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I know right!! Funny thing is, the day the town manager brought the while covering them up thing, (they may be offensive ) the first call we ran that day was a 92 year old bitter @ss man with tatts all over his forearms. He was attitudy!! I walked over, stuck my hand out to shake his and simply asked " what branch did you serve in?" As suspected, WW2 Navy Veteran. Well what do you know, Im tatted and was in the Navy, guess who the only guy on scene he would talk to was? That's right, this guy.
 
FireTitan said:
I know right!! Funny thing is, the day the town manager brought the while covering them up thing, (they may be offensive ) the first call we ran that day was a 92 year old bitter @ss man with tatts all over his forearms. He was attitudy!! I walked over, stuck my hand out to shake his and simply asked " what branch did you serve in?" As suspected, WW2 Navy Veteran. Well what do you know, Im tatted and was in the Navy, guess who the only guy on scene he would talk to was? That's right, this guy.
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Hell ya!
 
Day 31 - 248.2 lbs
Down about 3lbs since yesterday. Not celebrating yet; gotta see if it sticks or it's just a blip.....either way it's definitely better than an upswing!

Had a BLAST of a workout today! Inspired by hairygrandpa insane arm workout, I pumped and shredded tris and bis. First I did Vince Gs 8x8 for bis then tris; after some warmups you do 8 sets of 8 reps with the same weight and less than 30 seconds between sets. Could have left after that but did 2 more excercises each for 5x15. Now I feel good!

Hammer Precherz. 85lbs. 8x8
Seated Tri Extensions. 100lbs. 8x8

BB Curlz
CG Tri Press Machine
Rope cable Curlz
Rope cable Tri push downs
5x15 each

Hadn't had a pump like this in a while.

So I'm doing 1000mg epi now - 500mg of it pwo. The aggression is INSANE! Really gotta focus on staying in control - everyone is pissing me off.

Food is still 3 shakes and 2 meals of beef and eggs. No real hunger or cravings throughout the day. Now that I've decided to do a cheat meal once a week I'm looking forward to it.....

Cheers
 
Tank999 said:
Btw - anyone have any experience with 1Andro above 330mg a day?
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As I said, over 330mg seems to be not useful, as 1-andro needs chemicals from the body to convert to 1-test -and bodies production of said chemicals is limited.
Read it somewhere, could be wrong...
 
hairygrandpa said:
As I said, over 330mg seems to be not useful, as 1-andro needs chemicals from the body to convert to 1-test -and bodies production of said chemicals is limited.
Read it somewhere, could be wrong...
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Yeah - I didn't forget; just all these rocket scientists going 440 and more - was wondering what they're thinking. So far all I got was "just sperimenting lucy";)
 
hairygrandpa said:
As I said, over 330mg seems to be not useful, as 1-andro needs chemicals from the body to convert to 1-test -and bodies production of said chemicals is limited.
Read it somewhere, could be wrong...
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This is true. However 1dhea it self is anabolic and when those enzymes start to deplete the body produces more. It can take a while but it's does happen
 
rtmilburn said:
This is true. However 1dhea it self is anabolic and when those enzymes start to deplete the body produces more. It can take a while but it's does happen
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Oh and I thought I should add that we have no idea about how of much of these enzymes we have. It might only handle 100mg it might handle 1g we don't know there is literally 0 data on such subject that im aware of
 
Day 32 - 245.5lbs!
Evidently I must have been retaining water or something because my weight has dropped almost 8 lbs since monday!
It's probably a combo of the new diet - more food but strict keto and tighter cals - and doubling the dose on the sup3r epi.
Either how, starting to allow myself to feel some joy....
Heading out to do some cardio. Later I got 2nd weekly session of delts n pecs.
Hope all y'all have a great day!

Edit:
Just finished at the gym. Had a great chest n delt session. Not too heavy high rep. The 500mg epi pre wo seems like the best move since I started this cycle. Just slamming through lifting sessions that if I would usually do would definitely take me MUCH longer.
Hammer chest press 10x10
Hammer delt press 10x10
Heavy pecDec 5x15
Side raise machine
Endless high rep db side/rear/front raises

Could really do much more but I'm keeping an eye on overtraining especially since I'm working chest and delts 2x a week
Cheers
 
Tank999 said:
Day 32 - 245.5lbs!
Evidently I must have been retaining water or something because my weight has dropped almost 8 lbs since monday!
It's probably a combo of the new diet - more food but strict keto and tighter cals - and doubling the dose on the sup3r epi.
Either how, starting to allow myself to feel some joy....
Heading out to do some cardio. Later I got 2nd weekly session of delts n pecs.
Hope all y'all have a great day!

Edit:
Just finished at the gym. Had a great chest n delt session. Not too heavy high rep. The 500mg epi pre wo seems like the best move since I started this cycle. Just slamming through lifting sessions that if I would usually do would definitely take me MUCH longer.
Hammer chest press 10x10
Hammer delt press 10x10
Heavy pecDec 5x15
Side raise machine
Endless high rep db side/rear/front raises

Could really do much more but I'm keeping an eye on overtraining especially since I'm working chest and delts 2x a week
Cheers
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Outstanding job Tank999!! Nice to see those numbers drop. Water weight or not, its weight off on the scale and it always help with self motivation!! Keep trucking. Or...tanking? No, tanking makes it sound like a fail, so keep trucking. Lol
 
FireTitan said:
Outstanding job Tank999!! Nice to see those numbers drop. Water weight or not, its weight off on the scale and it always help with self motivation!! Keep trucking. Or...tanking? No, tanking makes it sound like a fail, so keep trucking. Lol
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Oh yeah; scale showing weight loss feels gooood!
 
No idea what my weight is, and not checking it until Monday. At this point I dont care about the number. I see AND feel a difference and THAT means more to me at this point. But, HIT4ME called me out on my deadlifts, and Im happy to say he was apparently correct. Although todays HST called for Squats, I upped the weight. I was doing 1 warmup set of 135x15 followed by 225x15x2, but today I upped it and did 275lb squats for 15x2. Well it was actually 275x15. Then 275x13 followed by a set of 2, but essentially 15x2. Dont take that from me. Lol Im feeling pretty good, and the veins in my arm looked twice as big today which made me push even harder.


A-Warmup of 15 pushups and 15 goblet squats(45lbs)

Incline Bench
135x15(warmup)
205x15x2

BENT OVER BB ROWS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2.

LOW CABLE FLYES
60x15x2

SQUATS
WARMUP 135x15
275x15x2

LEG EXTENSIONS
150x15x2. 110

HAMMER CURLS
70x15x2. 40

TRICEP PUSH DOWNS
180x15x2. 120

LATERAL RAISES
25x15x2. 15

ABS
 
Tank999 said:
Day 32 - 245.5lbs!
Evidently I must have been retaining water or something because my weight has dropped almost 8 lbs since monday!
It's probably a combo of the new diet - more food but strict keto and tighter cals - and doubling the dose on the sup3r epi.
Either how, starting to allow myself to feel some joy....
Heading out to do some cardio. Later I got 2nd weekly session of delts n pecs.
Hope all y'all have a great day!

Edit:
Just finished at the gym. Had a great chest n delt session. Not too heavy high rep. The 500mg epi pre wo seems like the best move since I started this cycle. Just slamming through lifting sessions that if I would usually do would definitely take me MUCH longer.
Hammer chest press 10x10
Hammer delt press 10x10
Heavy pecDec 5x15
Side raise machine
Endless high rep db side/rear/front raises

Could really do much more but I'm keeping an eye on overtraining especially since I'm working chest and delts 2x a week
Cheers
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Great. Now BEAST73 can say, see - it was the protein shakes :)

Great job man. You guys are killing fat. Whenever I need some motivation, I just come to this thread.

FireTitan said:
No idea what my weight is, and not checking it until Monday. At this point I dont care about the number. I see AND feel a difference and THAT means more to me at this point. But, HIT4ME called me out on my deadlifts, and Im happy to say he was apparently correct. Although todays HST called for Squats, I upped the weight. I was doing 1 warmup set of 135x15 followed by 225x15x2, but today I upped it and did 275lb squats for 15x2. Well it was actually 275x15. Then 275x13 followed by a set of 2, but essentially 15x2. Dont take that from me. Lol Im feeling pretty good, and the veins in my arm looked twice as big today which made me push even harder.


A-Warmup of 15 pushups and 15 goblet squats(45lbs)

Incline Bench
135x15(warmup)
205x15x2

BENT OVER BB ROWS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2.

LOW CABLE FLYES
60x15x2

SQUATS
WARMUP 135x15
275x15x2

LEG EXTENSIONS
150x15x2. 110

HAMMER CURLS
70x15x2. 40

TRICEP PUSH DOWNS
180x15x2. 120

LATERAL RAISES
25x15x2. 15

ABS
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2 x 15 x 275.

Whatever. No big deal.

Except that is awesome. Sorry if I kill amyone's mojo, but like I said, now you can have a swagger. 275 for 15!!!!

Seriously, don't you just feel embarrassed that you were doing 225 now? Wtf was that gonna get you?

In all seriousness, that is impressive. Those numbers, IMO, are moving you into legitimate strong status. You can probably hit 350-375 for 1 easily, and if you can get to 200 and do that, we are talking a squat with 2x bodyweight. Not a lot of us can do that.
 
FireTitan said:
No idea what my weight is, and not checking it until Monday. At this point I dont care about the number. I see AND feel a difference and THAT means more to me at this point. But, HIT4ME called me out on my deadlifts, and Im happy to say he was apparently correct. Although todays HST called for Squats, I upped the weight. I was doing 1 warmup set of 135x15 followed by 225x15x2, but today I upped it and did 275lb squats for 15x2. Well it was actually 275x15. Then 275x13 followed by a set of 2, but essentially 15x2. Dont take that from me. Lol Im feeling pretty good, and the veins in my arm looked twice as big today which made me push even harder.


A-Warmup of 15 pushups and 15 goblet squats(45lbs)

Incline Bench
135x15(warmup)
205x15x2

BENT OVER BB ROWS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2.

LOW CABLE FLYES
60x15x2

SQUATS
WARMUP 135x15
275x15x2

LEG EXTENSIONS
150x15x2. 110

HAMMER CURLS
70x15x2. 40

TRICEP PUSH DOWNS
180x15x2. 120

LATERAL RAISES
25x15x2. 15

ABS
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That looks good brother.
 
HIT4ME said:
Great. Now BEAST73 can say, see - it was the protein shakes :)

Great job man. You guys are killing fat. Whenever I need some motivation, I just come to this thread.



2 x 15 x 275.

Whatever. No big deal.

Except that is awesome. Sorry if I kill amyone's mojo, but like I said, now you can have a swagger. 275 for 15!!!!

Seriously, don't you just feel embarrassed that you were doing 225 now? Wtf was that gonna get you?

In all seriousness, that is impressive. Those numbers, IMO, are moving you into legitimate strong status. You can probably hit 350-375 for 1 easily, and if you can get to 200 and do that, we are talking a squat with 2x bodyweight. Not a lot of us can do that.
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Thanks man! And you didnt really kill my mojo, just made me realize my mojo was artificial. Now yes, I feel absolutely jacked right now AND realize I was wasting my time. Tomorrow will be interesting. Now, I can also say that I already feel it. But, its a good feel. Now my interest is definitely peaked to see what I can do. That. Could. Be. Bad. Lol
 
mmorso said:
FireTitan what's your deadlift? I keep reading that HIT4ME called ya out but can't find your stats man...
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Not sure what my max is. But in the 15 rep phase of my HST I was doing 2 sets of 15 @ 225, and HIT4ME through the bull shyt flag and said I can do more. So I figured I might as well do the same with squats today as a test. He had a point, not a month or so ago I got a PR with 295 on incline bench, and I was only deadlifting 225? It was a waste of my time. Now I realize that I am only shorting myself.
 
FireTitan said:
Not sure what my max is. But in the 15 rep phase of my HST I was doing 2 sets of 15 @ 225, and HIT4ME through the bull shyt flag and said I can do more. So I figured I might as well do the same with squats today as a test. He had a point, not a month or so ago I got a PR with 295 on incline bench, and I was only deadlifting 225? It was a waste of my time. Now I realize that I am only shorting myself.
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Now, we have to keep you on the edge of having extreme faith in yourself without letting your ego take over.....but I think you have that under control. You push yourself like that and your weights will climb. You will be deadlifting well over 400 sooner than you think, I guarantee it!
 
BEAST73 said:
The name of my new upcoming Cycle will be. Beast73 and Cleveland 8 week Journey!
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WTF, how do I lose my "like" button on THAT one. That's a great title.
 
FireTitan said:
No idea what my weight is, and not checking it until Monday. At this point I dont care about the number. I see AND feel a difference and THAT means more to me at this point. But, HIT4ME called me out on my deadlifts, and Im happy to say he was apparently correct. Although todays HST called for Squats, I upped the weight. I was doing 1 warmup set of 135x15 followed by 225x15x2, but today I upped it and did 275lb squats for 15x2. Well it was actually 275x15. Then 275x13 followed by a set of 2, but essentially 15x2. Dont take that from me. Lol Im feeling pretty good, and the veins in my arm looked twice as big today which made me push even harder.


A-Warmup of 15 pushups and 15 goblet squats(45lbs)

Incline Bench
135x15(warmup)
205x15x2

BENT OVER BB ROWS
WARMUP 135x15
225x15x2.

LOW CABLE FLYES
60x15x2

SQUATS
WARMUP 135x15
275x15x2

LEG EXTENSIONS
150x15x2. 110

HAMMER CURLS
70x15x2. 40

TRICEP PUSH DOWNS
180x15x2. 120

LATERAL RAISES
25x15x2. 15

ABS
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Love reading these - I think I'm gonna follow this style once I hit pct
 
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