Weights up, scales down…

[MrKleen73]

There should be very minimal difference without it. It isn't patching an issue, it is growing new capillaries and increasing healing factors in your blood making you more efficient at healing. There are some anti-inflammatory effects, but mostly the difference between being on and off it will be that your healing will go back to normal levels but any actual recovery / improvement you got from it is going to stay.

Speaking of this, I might add some BPC in when they do my Trigger Point injections. The needling will signal for healing which would allow BPC to do it's thing even on an older injury.

 

[akboom87]

There should be very minimal difference without it. It isn't patching an issue, it is growing new capillaries and increasing healing factors in your blood making you more efficient at healing. There are some anti-inflammatory effects, but mostly the difference between being on and off it will be that your healing will go back to normal levels but any actual recovery / improvement you got from it is going to stay.

Speaking of this, I might add some BPC in when they do my Trigger Point injections. The needling will signal for healing which would allow BPC to do it's thing even on an older injury.

That makes a lot of sense. I have noticed an easing in my neck/ arm that has been bugging me on and off last 2 years. Not like magically better but has definitely improved.

 

[Hyde]

That makes a lot of sense. I have noticed an easing in my neck/ arm that has been bugging me on and off last 2 years. Not like magically better but has definitely improved.

That’s how it works. It’s not magic, except it is when you realize you had a problem and simply injecting something actually helped improve it when it otherwise wasn’t.

This is the same way with steroids. People hear so much sensationalism they expect Super Soldier Serum. But if you keep expectations grounded, that they will indeed help, you’ll appreciate them for the magic they are. They are magic! But there’s limitations.

 

[Dustin07]

Super Soldier Serum.

I think the compound we are looking for in this scenario is called "meth"

 

[akboom87]

Evening session

W4-D3

Squat
45x10
95x10
135x8
185x5
5x2x210
1x10x210

Front squat
3x8x185
1x2x225 PR

Weighted sit-ups +45
4x10

Plate curls
4x15x25

Incline bench- lateral raises (these hit hard)
3x15x10

Incline front raise
3x12x10

squat is feeling great really happy about this! Overall great session, might be the way I do lateral raises now, constant tension and takes all body movement out of the equation.

 

[Segansational]

Congrats on the PR!

 

[Resolve10]

Nice squats!

Ya I like leaning both ways in different training cycles for raises (so like you are doing or ones where you grab a rack and lean out and use the free hand to raise the weight).

 

[dapack]

Congrats on the squat pr!!

 

[Dustin07]

Evening session

W4-D3

Squat
45x10
95x10
135x8
185x5
5x2x210
1x10x210

Front squat
3x8x185
1x2x225 PR

Weighted sit-ups +45
4x10

Plate curls
4x15x25

Incline bench- lateral raises (these hit hard)
3x15x10

Incline front raise
3x12x10

squat is feeling great really happy about this! Overall great session, might be the way I do lateral raises now, constant tension and takes all body movement out of the equation.

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will they still work if I wear longer shorts tho

Front squat
3x8x185
1x2x225 PR

Solid! Love a good front squat PR

 

[akboom87]

will they still work if I wear longer shorts tho


Solid! Love a good front squat PR

No, has to be almost booty short shorts to make this valid.

 

[akboom87]

Decided to hit tomorrow’s session today. Not sure how tomorrow will be with loading the U-Haul and packing up and all.

W4-D4

Warmups

Deadlift- 92%
45x10
135x8
185x5
225x3
255x3 - belt
280x1
1x4x310

Deadlift- 78%
5x3x260
1x8x225

Close grip bench- pause
45x10
135x5
4x4x170
1x12x145

BB row
3x8x185
1x12x135
Superset plate pullover
4x10x35

BB shrug
4x20x185
Super set band curls
4x20

Pretty good session! This turned out stronger then I had thought it was going to be but seemed to be recovered enough to be decent!

Train has been building steam, sad I have a week of I’m out of town and lots of driving.

 

[Segansational]

Just consider it a forced deload week.

 

[gphagan1]

Good solid workout….hope your move goes well.

 

[akboom87]

Got the u haul today and got first load all packed up. Perfect timing supposed to be a big blizzard coming in tomorrow night.

Got a quick blood flow session

5x5x135 fast

Situps
4 sets

Band face pulls
4 sets

Band curls
4 sets

BW lunges around the empty garage

Plan to hit the road about 5 am so catch you guys later

 

[Dustin07]

Safe travels, hope it all goes well for you!

 

[MrKleen73]

I hope your move goes well, and you don't get caught up in bad weather.

Also, congrats on the PR!

 

[PolishHamm3r77]

Good luck w the move. Aka high volume full body workout.

 

[akboom87]

Exhausted..

So first trip with moving was good, headed out Monday for the conference, that was way busier and time consuming then I thought it was going to be.

Got home this evening. Tomorrow we will pack another load and get the fifth wheel camper hooked up and take it down south. Great timing at almost 5 dollars a gallon diesel.


Then work on organizing stuff and get camper set up and see what all works and what I got to work on. Then Thursday make a trip back to the rental have a work going away party on Friday. Then load up another load and head back south.


So functional lifting will be nill rest of the week and next week.

Did get in a hotel gym lift, pushups, sit-ups etc.

Hit a little session in the garage when we got back super low weight sets of 4x8. Will get up early and hit a AM session before getting everything ready.

 

[Hyde]

Exhausted..

So first trip with moving was good, headed out Monday for the conference, that was way busier and time consuming then I thought it was going to be.

Got home this evening. Tomorrow we will pack another load and get the fifth wheel camper hooked up and take it down south. Great timing at almost 5 dollars a gallon diesel.


Then work on organizing stuff and get camper set up and see what all works and what I got to work on. Then Thursday make a trip back to the rental have a work going away party on Friday. Then load up another load and head back south.


So functional lifting will be nill rest of the week and next week.

Did get in a hotel gym lift, pushups, sit-ups etc.

Hit a little session in the garage when we got back super low weight sets of 4x8. Will get up early and hit a AM session before getting everything ready.

Hang tight brother! You have a good plan, so just stay focused.

The way you eat an elephant is still just one bite at a time.

 

[Dustin07]

Great timing at almost 5 dollars a gallon diesel.

Rookie numbers! come buy fuel in WA lol

So functional lifting will be nill rest of the week and next week.

Did get in a hotel gym lift, pushups, sit-ups etc.

Hit a little session in the garage when we got back super low weight sets of 4x8. Will get up early and hit a AM session before getting everything ready.

You got a lot going on dude, I highly doubt that missing a few days while you are currently very busy/active is going to be a set back for you. if anything it might help light the fire for enjoying a dominate return to the iron. No need to risk burnout/injury/stress/cortisol etc this week since you aren't exactly on crunch time for a stage/comp in the next week.

 

[akboom87]

Thanks guys!

Heading back to get more stuff today, last load got the camper and got it all set up so that’s huge. This next load I think we will have it all. Excited to get this trip done and to get the weights setup in the shop and get back in a routine!

Will get some pictures Sunday

 

[akboom87]

This will be the iron paradise ( over time) needs some work and things but not a real priority at the moment

Last night

Warm ups

Squats
4x8x185

Bench
4x10x155

BB rows
4x10x95

Lat raise plates
4x12x10

Plate curls
4x15x10

Plate skull crushers
4x12x45

Little rough but will be back on the up and up before long!!

 

[Segansational]

That looks like a great opportunity to fill a real gym set up! What else do you have planned to go in there? Farm equipment?Or is that your truck already in there as well?

 

[akboom87]

That looks like a great opportunity to fill a real gym set up! What else do you have planned to go in there? Farm equipment?Or is that your truck already in there as well?

It’s mostly just parking for the old farm vehicles and shop with all the tools/ welders etc.

Ultimately the plan will be to add a addition to the side and have a sealed off gym area and also make that my home office work area

 

[PolishHamm3r77]

That has tons of potential for a home gym. Congrats on the move!!!
Nice full body session

 

[gphagan1]

Nice workout…that’s a great building for a gym.

 

[akboom87]

Yesterday evening
Warmups

Standing OHP
4x10x95

BB RDL
4x10x135

Close grip bench
4x10x135
Super set plate flys
4x10x25

BB upright rows
4x10x65

Plate curls
4x10x15

Shrugs
4x12x185

Situps
25-25-25

Box jumps

Plate carries

 

[Dustin07]

Love the new shop setup!

It’s mostly just parking for the old farm vehicles and shop with all the tools/ welders etc.

did you ever decide on a new welder? I was walking through a harbor freight a couple weeks ago thinking about that, they had a shocking amount of options too.

 

[akboom87]

Love the new shop setup!


did you ever decide on a new welder? I was walking through a harbor freight a couple weeks ago thinking about that, they had a shocking amount of options too.

Not yet I got to many other projects I need to accomplish first! Got chicks in the shed so need to finalize the chicken coop. Got ducks coming Friday. And rabbits the following week

 

[Dustin07]

Not yet I got to many other projects I need to accomplish first! Got chicks in the shed so need to finalize the chicken coop. Got ducks coming Friday. And rabbits the following week

I got 15 chicks in my bathroom right now, 5 new layers for the main flock and 10 cornish cross that I'm hoping are at harvest size before May 1 when I go on vacation. if not, they get 2 more weeks to fatten up lol.

I'm running this as a test. if the CC go well, I'm hoping to maybe raise and process 40 more cornish cross for the freezer this year...

I have shot and BBQ'd rabbits off our land before but I've never raised them for meat. are yours going to be meat rabbits or pets? I saw some folks set up rabbit cages in their garden for the instant fertizilizer, kinda an interesting concept.

I really want to put a small coop in our garden and move a couple of our old layers to the garden in the fall when we are done with the harvest and let them just poop and peck over everything and put a fresh round of new fertilizer in....

 

[akboom87]

I got 15 chicks in my bathroom right now, 5 new layers for the main flock and 10 cornish cross that I'm hoping are at harvest size before May 1 when I go on vacation. if not, they get 2 more weeks to fatten up lol.

I'm running this as a test. if the CC go well, I'm hoping to maybe raise and process 40 more cornish cross for the freezer this year...

I have shot and BBQ'd rabbits off our land before but I've never raised them for meat. are yours going to be meat rabbits or pets? I saw some folks set up rabbit cages in their garden for the instant fertizilizer, kinda an interesting concept.

I really want to put a small coop in our garden and move a couple of our old layers to the garden in the fall when we are done with the harvest and let them just poop and peck over everything and put a fresh round of new fertilizer in....

Got 12 chicks at the moment and probably going to get 8-10 more. Seen the Cornish ones and thinking about getting some.

Going to do meat rabbits and yeah set up to save the manure to go back in the garden. Same thoughts with the ducks take the duck water and use that in the garden. They claim that works really well so we shall see! This fall need to source some cows to buy. Plan is to build up to 15-20 head over time. Got the room for them and 15-20 acres to plant up for some feed.

 

[akboom87]

Yesterday

Incline bench
4x10x135

Deadlift
4x8x225
1x5x245

BB GM
4x8x95

Sit-up
4x10

Lat raise
Curls
Skull crushers

 

[Dustin07]

Got 12 chicks at the moment and probably going to get 8-10 more. Seen the Cornish ones and thinking about getting some.

Going to do meat rabbits and yeah set up to save the manure to go back in the garden. Same thoughts with the ducks take the duck water and use that in the garden. They claim that works really well so we shall see! This fall need to source some cows to buy. Plan is to build up to 15-20 head over time. Got the room for them and 15-20 acres to plant up for some feed.

solid! mom and dad usually only keep 6-8 head now and we butcher usually 1 or 2 every summer. We are doing one this summer and I'm excited about it cause a guy I went to high school with is in processing now and he does better than anyone I know. plus we end up getting way more meat back (for some reason!) when he processes my cows.

My wife keeps an eclectic flock for layers, mostly centered around the easter eggers so she has like 6 different colors of eggs. The cornish cross you probably already know, but typically you want to butcher before about 12 weeks or they get so big that their legs break and they have heart attacks. I've seen people say they can process their birds as early as 6 weeks but I weighed one of my chicks last night and it was 1lb so mine will be no where near 6+ lbs by the end of April. I'm guessing I'll harvest at 8-9 weeks.

I never thought about the duck water. we keep a kiddie pool filled with water for the ducks in the run (2 runner ducks). we often just dump it and refill with fresh for them (which they love), I'll have to look into the idea of using it as fertilizer!

 

[akboom87]

Starting to get back in the groove

Warmups

Squat
Bar x 10
135 x6
185x6
4x6x225
1x15x135

Bench
45x10
135x10
4x6x175
1x135x15

Chest flys
4x12x25

RDL
4x6x205

Skull crusher
3x10x65

Band face pullls

Box jump

 

[akboom87]

Yesterday

Warm ups

BB OHP
1x8x95
4x5x115

Seated BB military press
2x5x135
1x12x95

BB upright rows
3x12x65

Band lat raises
4x10

Plate curls superset band curls
4x15x15
4x15

Farmers carries around yard

Arms was on fire and shoulders pumped.

Today we got more ducks coming m, got to get some lumber to form up for some concrete in an outdoor kitchen area we are building. Going to be a busy day!

 

[Segansational]

Man, you guys really are going full on homesteading aren't you??

 

[Dustin07]

Today we got more ducks coming m, got to get some lumber to form up for some concrete in an outdoor kitchen area we are building. Going to be a busy day!

we keep a kiddy pond for our ducks that we will clean and refill from time to time, the drake LOVES to jump in for a bath and swim. I recently learned that this is called "liquid gold". I hadn't ever thought about it before, but that water makes for good natural fertilizer for your garden FWIW!!! I'll probably use it myself this year a bit!

 

[akboom87]

Man, you guys really are going full on homesteading aren't you??

Yes really getting into it!

we keep a kiddy pond for our ducks that we will clean and refill from time to time, the drake LOVES to jump in for a bath and swim. I recently learned that this is called "liquid gold". I hadn't ever thought about it before, but that water makes for good natural fertilizer for your garden FWIW!!! I'll probably use it myself this year a bit!

for sure and definitely plan to use the water!

 

[akboom87]

Monday

Warmups

Squat
45x10
135x10
185x6
3x5x225
4x3x245
1x8x225

Seated BB press
2x5x135
4x8x115

Upright row
4x12x65

Shrugs
4x12x275

BB curls
4x12x65

Plate curls
4x10x25

Band curls

 

[akboom87]

Yesterday

Warm ups

Bench
45x10
135x8
4x6x185

Bench pause
4x3x205

Reverse bench
95x10
115x10
4x8x135
1x6x155

Plate fly
4x12x35

BB RDL
4x8x225

 

[Dustin07]

awesome, looks like you're getting right back into routine-

 

[Dustin07]

Got 12 chicks at the moment and probably going to get 8-10 more. Seen the Cornish ones and thinking about getting some.

Going to do meat rabbits and yeah set up to save the manure to go back in the garden. Same thoughts with the ducks take the duck water and use that in the garden. They claim that works really well so we shall see! This fall need to source some cows to buy. Plan is to build up to 15-20 head over time. Got the room for them and 15-20 acres to plant up for some feed.

we keep a kiddy pond for our ducks that we will clean and refill from time to time, the drake LOVES to jump in for a bath and swim. I recently learned that this is called "liquid gold". I hadn't ever thought about it before, but that water makes for good natural fertilizer for your garden FWIW!!! I'll probably use it myself this year a bit!

for sure and definitely plan to use the water!

Its funny how separating the posts by a month I completely forgot what we had already talked about. Is your wife big into the chickens? that really helps in my case. I have the cornish cross moved out side now in the main coop fenced off from the other birds with a heat lamp still but we are on day 4 out side at only 3 weeks old and they're doing great. I don't mind checking them, food/water in the morning before work but having my wife help with week 1 chicks and then occasional coop cleanings, egg gathering, etc is nice. we always have a pile of fresh eggs and she does a lot of the work since I built the coop which is really nice.

last Sunday we had 17 eggs somehow from 11 chickens lol. we are getting about 8-11/day at the moment with 5 new layers going into the coop here probably in about 2 weeks. I'm going to double the size of their run to do a little pasture management. My plan is to seed one half of the run (while they are locked out into the other run) and go back and forth so that they have fresh greens growing in their two different areas.

 

[MrKleen73]

Man that sounds like the life out there. My wife probably wouldn't be into it but I would!!!

 

[Dustin07]

Man that sounds like the life out there. My wife probably wouldn't be into it but I would!!!

its good for the soul!

 

[MrKleen73]

its good for the soul!

I grew up in West Virginia, and while we did not have a farm there were several people around us that had animals, and one was an older couple we used to go visit and help with their animals all the time, and I loved it.

 

[Dustin07]

I grew up in West Virginia, and while we did not have a farm there were several people around us that had animals, and one was an older couple we used to go visit and help with their animals all the time, and I loved it.

its a weird constant hard work that leaves you feeling better. Like feeding the birds at 5am before going to work this morning, and last night was much of the same until cooking dinner. its a 24/7 job thats always busy but you fall asleep easy and somehow the brain is just too busy being connected to real life to stress too much over media/news/politics. we're in a good place right now.

 

[Jimbabwe]

Subbed.

 

[akboom87]

Man that sounds like the life out there. My wife probably wouldn't be into it but I would!!!

It is man and so damn quiet and peaceful!

its good for the soul!

it’s amazing how 80% of the streets has dropped away

 

[akboom87]

Yesterday

Warm ups

Skull crushers
4x10x65
3x5x85

Plate skull crushers
4x10x45

Curls
4x12x75
Plate curls
4x14x15

Deadlift
135x8
205x5
225x5
245x5
3x3x275
3x6x225

Behind the back wrist curls
4x12x115

 

[akboom87]

Subbed.

Welcome man!