LeanEngineer
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I would not complain that looks super tasty! Mouth watering!
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Smont
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Yesterday I just did my groups workout with them. Thought it would be a good way to make sure nothing hurts and I'm good to go this week.
Standing OHP x 10 superset with 10 pushups (5 sets)
T-bar row superset with face pulls (5 sets)
Battle ropes, box jumps, dips/pushups, sled pushes and pulls (3 sets)
Some stretches and I hit the bag at about 25% intensity.
Tomorrow is legs-
RDL 4 sets of 4-6 @315
Front squat 4 sets of 8-10 @ 135
Leg press (wide) 4 sets of 15-20 @ 4 plates
Farmers walks 100 yards. 110lbs each hand
I think these are safe enough weights to jump back in without dialing it back too much. I only missed like 2 weeks and it wasn't a complete 2 weeks without anything so not a huge break in time/training.
Things to note: front squat is something I don't do often , I plan to start very slow, 135lbs and add 10lbs per session. Toes wide on leg press is to target adductors more.
Farmers walks I only have a 22 yard straight away, so I'm going to drop them and turn around and pick them right back up, so grip has like 1-2 seconds rest every 20 yards. 5 trips will = 100 yards. If it seems too easy I will do a another 50-100 yards
Standing OHP x 10 superset with 10 pushups (5 sets)
T-bar row superset with face pulls (5 sets)
Battle ropes, box jumps, dips/pushups, sled pushes and pulls (3 sets)
Some stretches and I hit the bag at about 25% intensity.
Tomorrow is legs-
RDL 4 sets of 4-6 @315
Front squat 4 sets of 8-10 @ 135
Leg press (wide) 4 sets of 15-20 @ 4 plates
Farmers walks 100 yards. 110lbs each hand
I think these are safe enough weights to jump back in without dialing it back too much. I only missed like 2 weeks and it wasn't a complete 2 weeks without anything so not a huge break in time/training.
Things to note: front squat is something I don't do often , I plan to start very slow, 135lbs and add 10lbs per session. Toes wide on leg press is to target adductors more.
Farmers walks I only have a 22 yard straight away, so I'm going to drop them and turn around and pick them right back up, so grip has like 1-2 seconds rest every 20 yards. 5 trips will = 100 yards. If it seems too easy I will do a another 50-100 yards
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Dustin07
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8lbs sounds like water though..? or gut clearing...
Hyde
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Whenever my motivation gets low, I remind myself I don’t have to do this. I can put the bar down and just walk away at any point. Nobody is forcing me to do anything, or cares.
Then I realize that I care, so I make myself just go warmup and go from there.
I don’t even think there’s any self-loathing left to drive me towards progress; I am proud of much that I have accomplished. I am good enough in my own eyes. But at a certain point, like career criminals, soldiers etc, all a lifter really knows is lifting - it becomes a massive part of your identity. So I keep going back to the iron!
Dustin07
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You're also happily married to a great woman with a great family! Being a gymrat for the sake of the iron is a greatplace to be when you don't lean on that self loathing or opposite sex attraction to chase the goals!
PolishHamm3r77
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I go a different route and talk smack to myself in the mirror. When my wife hears it she thinks I’m in the phone berating some poor soul.
jfigliuolo
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Be sure to reference yourself in the third person
Dustin07
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let her degrade you in the bathroom instead and you might get both, the motivation you desire and a strong OnlyFans account
Be sure to reference yourself in the third person
@jfigliuolo - always:
Smont
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All good points, I definitely get trapped in my own head sometimes. Im definitely happy with my progress as a whole, I do want to still be significantly bigger and stronger tho. I know I have the ability to get there, but sometimes just knowing how far away I actually am from where I want to be makes me not really want to train much. Even when my goals seem realistic, I know that gaining 10 lb of muscle or adding 20-30lbs lb to a big lift is a lot harder to get nowadays than it used to be. I mean don't get me wrong, every time I go on a cycle my lips go up 20+, lb but I'm talking about another 20-30 past that. Even 10 lpr on any of my maxes seems a lot in my mind. I also know how easy it is for me to maintain roughly where I'm at and it doesn't take much at all, I've been a fairly lean and strong 195 to 200 lb for a pretty long time and it only takes me two or three half ass workouts a week to maintain at this point. Going up or down more then 10 lbs in BW always sucks for me too.
I know what I have to do, but I'm also a master procrastinator, I can sit around and do nothing with the best of them when I let my anxiety take over lol.
Il be in the gym tomorrow and il get that workout crossed off the lift. Il bench, OHP, close grip incline and skull crushers Saturday, Tuesday is weighted chins, rows, pullovers and curls.
Simple workouts I can do in about 45min - hour and I need to start doing a little cardio again too.
Smont
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I'm a little dehydrated but I'm definitely undereating
LeanEngineer
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Same here! If there is something I'm skipping when I am time constrainted it's cardio. I would like to do it every day but right now it's about 25 minutes of jogging every other or every third day. Would like to alternate between walk jog every other day for 20 minutes minimum.
Smont
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I've been skipping cardio since new years lol.
I probably did cardio once a week in January and probably 1-2x the entire month of February. On Tuesday this week I was gasping for air doing short rounds of battle ropes, box jumps and the sled which is not usually that serious for me
Dustin07
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me too, if time is short, cardio is sacrificed, although supersets at least give me a bit of that HITT/WOD feeling. The one thing I have learned about myself over the years though is that cardio work capacity is earned back pretty dang quick. 2 weeks of a cardio push and you're a completely different person. very different than strength training which is always a life long marathon.
I mean if a 1/4 mile sprint kills me today, then within 2 weeks of work I'm probably hitting full mile runs pretty easily (aside from how bad it beats up my feet these days)
jfigliuolo
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I absolutely despise cardio... not that anyone cares. I'll walk the dog for an hour. But honestly just for her sake.
Dustin07
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we are almost to that point that I can do that in the morning again before work with a little sunlight, but my long cardio bouts almost have to include a youtube video or something or I end up doing HIIT/Interval work to make it interesting lol
Smont
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Believe it or not, me too. That's why normally hit the heavy bag or do something sports related for cardio. I do some slow steady state cardio occasionally, But I prefer high intensity cardio for the health benefits and I need endurance and a good vo2 max in order to keep up with my own lifestyle and hobbies.
So when I slack on my cardio, especially the high intensity cardio, I limit myself from being able to do a lot of the things I enjoy doing.
Smont
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If I do cardio on a treadmill for piece of cardio equipment I also have to have a YouTube video or something going
Dustin07
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thats usually where I spend my time learning aquaponics, gardening, and lately how to make a robot
What I really need to do is learn how to harvest buds and get my wifes next round of seeds going in the greenhouse soon. also just planed 100 tobacco seeds. I don't even smoke, but we just passed a 100% new tax this year so in a moment of spite I went to victory seeds and ordered some bags, so now I'm officially learning how to harvest tobacco leaves too haha
Smont
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The whole part for drying and curing is the most important part. so knowing when to harvest, and maintaining the right temperature and humidity and air flow is pretty important.thats usually where I spend my time learning aquaponics, gardening, and lately how to make a robot
What I really need to do is learn how to harvest buds and get my wifes next round of seeds going in the greenhouse soon. also just planed 100 tobacco seeds. I don't even smoke, but we just passed a 100% new tax this year so in a moment of spite I went to victory seeds and ordered some bags, so now I'm officially learning how to harvest tobacco leaves too haha
I made a little 2x4 drying tent for right now but at the end of the year when I do my big harvest I have a 8x4 walk-in tent that I use.
You basically just need to keep the temperature between 55 and 65° and the humidity between 58 and 64°, but as long as it's between 50 and 65% humidity you're pretty good. You don't want the buds themselves to go under 57% humidity or they start to lose their flavor and smell like hay.
I'll post a picture of my little makeshift 2x4 setup and I'll explain it it's actually pretty easy to get it right if you can maintain the atmosphere
Smont
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This is going to be a lot of talking but I repeat myself a lot and if you can overlook my babbling the outcome or end goal is pretty simple.
I'm limited to being in my basement but even in the basement you can smell the weed on the second floor so I put a carbon filter on my exhaust system and it kills the smell.
Because my basement can get very humid from time to time I have a dehumidifier down here and I try to keep the whole basement between 50 and 60%.
The first couple days you put the buds in the tent to dry because it's a sealed off environment for the most part the humidity goes up inside the tent.
I have a mini dehumidifier that cost about 20 bucks and a mini humidifier that cost about 20 bucks and I keep one of each inside if I need to slightly increase or decrease the humidity.
I also have a couple of fans in there at ground level because you want good air circulation but you don't want the fan blowing directly at the buds.
You also wanted to be dark inside the tent because the light destroys the terpenes which give it the smell, taste and some of effects.
In the simplest form you need a dark, clean area with good air flow.
You want to keep the temperature between 55 and 65°, but 50 to 70 is acceptable but once you get above like 68 you're risking mold. Good air flow that doesn't blow directly straight at any of the plants.
Once the leaves on the outside feel dry and the tiny branches make a snapping noise when you bend them your ready to trim off the excess leaves and put them in a air tight jar.
Ideally if you did it correct and you were to put a little hygrometer inside your jar it would read between 58 and 62% humidity inside the jar and that's what you want.
If it goes above 62%, you want to open up the jar and let a little fresh air in for maybe 2-3minutes or so and then put the lid back on.
I'm limited to being in my basement but even in the basement you can smell the weed on the second floor so I put a carbon filter on my exhaust system and it kills the smell.
Because my basement can get very humid from time to time I have a dehumidifier down here and I try to keep the whole basement between 50 and 60%.
The first couple days you put the buds in the tent to dry because it's a sealed off environment for the most part the humidity goes up inside the tent.
I have a mini dehumidifier that cost about 20 bucks and a mini humidifier that cost about 20 bucks and I keep one of each inside if I need to slightly increase or decrease the humidity.
I also have a couple of fans in there at ground level because you want good air circulation but you don't want the fan blowing directly at the buds.
You also wanted to be dark inside the tent because the light destroys the terpenes which give it the smell, taste and some of effects.
In the simplest form you need a dark, clean area with good air flow.
You want to keep the temperature between 55 and 65°, but 50 to 70 is acceptable but once you get above like 68 you're risking mold. Good air flow that doesn't blow directly straight at any of the plants.
Once the leaves on the outside feel dry and the tiny branches make a snapping noise when you bend them your ready to trim off the excess leaves and put them in a air tight jar.
Ideally if you did it correct and you were to put a little hygrometer inside your jar it would read between 58 and 62% humidity inside the jar and that's what you want.
If it goes above 62%, you want to open up the jar and let a little fresh air in for maybe 2-3minutes or so and then put the lid back on.
Smont
Legend
You couldn't really see because it was dark in the other pictures so I turned the light on and my flash on real quick. But you want to leave them mostly in the dark
I feel like over the past two years I've gotten significantly better at this and the biggest takeaways have been finding the best system that works for me and then sticking with it. I might make some small adjustments to my grow or to my drying process here and there but for the most part I leave it the same, too much changing things around usually f**** everything up.
I've even got my soil recipes and everything written down so that I know how much of each product to use for each amount of dirt in the pot s and I even put little notes where some strains seem to eat more food than others. Stuff like that I make adjustments with. I might notice that a certain type of plant gets a calcium deficiency or something and other ones don't.
Right now I have a round of five different strains going, they're all just in the early stages and I'm not going to do much with them for a few months I'm going to basically turn them all into mother plants and make clones. All of these plants have the same exact nutrients except one of them seems to not be uptaking nitrogen and is easily overwatered, and it's obvious which one that it is so I'm making notes of that and I'll adjust by giving more nitrogen and less water
I feel like over the past two years I've gotten significantly better at this and the biggest takeaways have been finding the best system that works for me and then sticking with it. I might make some small adjustments to my grow or to my drying process here and there but for the most part I leave it the same, too much changing things around usually f**** everything up.
I've even got my soil recipes and everything written down so that I know how much of each product to use for each amount of dirt in the pot s and I even put little notes where some strains seem to eat more food than others. Stuff like that I make adjustments with. I might notice that a certain type of plant gets a calcium deficiency or something and other ones don't.
Right now I have a round of five different strains going, they're all just in the early stages and I'm not going to do much with them for a few months I'm going to basically turn them all into mother plants and make clones. All of these plants have the same exact nutrients except one of them seems to not be uptaking nitrogen and is easily overwatered, and it's obvious which one that it is so I'm making notes of that and I'll adjust by giving more nitrogen and less water
Smont
Legend
By the way, I'm stuck late at work today literally watching paint dry because I have to spray a cabinet set one more time before the day is over, and I had to get my class covered. No gym tonight , or possibly a late gym trip but I need to finish this job and get another meal in me.
I did manage to pound 1800 calories between breakfast and lunch and I need to get 1800 more before the day is over
I did manage to pound 1800 calories between breakfast and lunch and I need to get 1800 more before the day is over
CroLifter
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All kinds of setbacks... sounds all too familiar. I was working hard af since last summer to get my incline bench to 225x5 at last... good joke bro, got sick at least 3x, and would lose 2-4 weeks worth of progress in a week of sickness.
Not taking anything so progress is like a rep per month lol. And gained fat in the process.
I find myself being pissed and looking towards the cycle as some kind of "salvation" for the sh1tty results while being off. Its a bit of a dangerous mind game.
And then I get barely 400 total test bloodwork result and i am like "hell yeah brakes are off i dont want to deal with this cr@p". When in all honesty my sleep could use more work but i am a slight insomniac by nature and very late sleeper and getting 7-8 hours is a struggle. And gains suffer on 6 hrs or less definitely.
All in all its very frustrating.
When VERY tight on time and energy i like to still workout, because again, if i only trained when i hadnperfect sleep etc that would be very few sessions a month... i like to then go in and pick 3 exercises, 1 for push chain, 1 for pulling chain and 1 for the lower body. 3 sets per exercise, 9 sets total. Still feels I did something.
Not taking anything so progress is like a rep per month lol. And gained fat in the process.
I find myself being pissed and looking towards the cycle as some kind of "salvation" for the sh1tty results while being off. Its a bit of a dangerous mind game.
And then I get barely 400 total test bloodwork result and i am like "hell yeah brakes are off i dont want to deal with this cr@p
". When in all honesty my sleep could use more work but i am a slight insomniac by nature and very late sleeper and getting 7-8 hours is a struggle. And gains suffer on 6 hrs or less definitely.All in all its very frustrating.
When VERY tight on time and energy i like to still workout, because again, if i only trained when i hadnperfect sleep etc that would be very few sessions a month... i like to then go in and pick 3 exercises, 1 for push chain, 1 for pulling chain and 1 for the lower body. 3 sets per exercise, 9 sets total. Still feels I did something.
Smont
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Hahahaha, great movie
Smont
Legend
I have not had a full night sleep in over 20 years lolAll kinds of setbacks... sounds all too familiar. I was working hard af since last summer to get my incline bench to 225x5 at last... good joke bro, got sick at least 3x, and would lose 2-4 weeks worth of progress in a week of sickness.
Not taking anything so progress is like a rep per month lol. And gained fat in the process.
I find myself being pissed and looking towards the cycle as some kind of "salvation" for the sh1tty results while being off. Its a bit of a dangerous mind game.
And then I get barely 400 total test bloodwork result and i am like "hell yeah brakes are off i dont want to deal with this cr@p
All in all its very frustrating.
When VERY tight on time and energy i like to still workout, because again, if i only trained when i hadnperfect sleep etc that would be very few sessions a month... i like to then go in and pick 3 exercises, 1 for push chain, 1 for pulling chain and 1 for the lower body. 3 sets per exercise, 9 sets total. Still feels I did something.
Dustin07
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That is a lot of information I did not know. I have been reading how the tobacco guys process their stuff and some of this is similar, but some of it is very different. some of the guys might just take their leaves, wrap them up to hang similar to what you do, but tie them off outside on their deck or something as long as they wont' get rained on, but zero mention of light and very little discussion of humidity.
do you still use that seed source website you sent me? what strain do you like for high yield? when I got her some seeds from the place you recommended I had no idea what to even get her so I was totally shooting in the dark and guessing.
Smont
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I will be placing a order from them on the 420 sale, I got a few seed banks I trust. Dutch passion is a good seed and so is Humboldt seed company. I'm also learning how to make my own this year I've got someone teaching me it's not really that complicated at least it doesn't appear to be but I'm not sure if my first time was successful so I should probably not count my chickens before they hatch. I'm literally just finishing trimming right now, some of the buds I showed you guys hanging up or dry enough for me to trim them and throw them in a jar. The rest of the plant probably needs two or three more days before it's ready.
Blue dream is a high yield slightly sativa dominant hybrid, it's pretty durable and has some bold resistance so it's good for growing big outdoors. They don't usually finish till the end of October early November around here so I don't usually mess with them because the weather here is pretty up and down that time of year. One day it can be 75° and sunny and the next day it can be 45 and pouring rain. A rainy fall season usually fucks up your harvest pretty good.
I don't remember, your location. That'll help pick a good strain to match your weather. There's lots of strains nowadays that you can easily pull 2 lb off a plant outdoors, I just typically choose not to grow plants that big because they're a lot harder to manage. But with a little bit of training your plant, you can grow a plant that's like 8 to 10 ft tall and almost as wide as it is tall
Smont
Legend
Ok we're back in the gym at least
Flat bench working up to 275x6
Cable fly superset CG incline press 15/15 reps 5 sets (not heavy but I failed on the 5th set)
Behind the neck press 3 sets of 20
Side laterals 2x20
Rear laterals 20,17
DB skull crushers and press downs.
Was doing a lot of talking and fucking off during the triceps stuff at the end.
I'm powering through leftovers today, my girl just started a meal prep for the first time in the past 2-3 years, so I'm letting her decide dinners. Il just add more to whatever she wants to make. But she's on a macros count and not keto for once lol. I guided her twords a Mediterranean style diet with a emphasis on low FODMAP foods. Not strictly low fodmap, but mindful of it.
So it sounds like I'm completely off the hook for cooking or planning dinner now.
Flat bench working up to 275x6
Cable fly superset CG incline press 15/15 reps 5 sets (not heavy but I failed on the 5th set)
Behind the neck press 3 sets of 20
Side laterals 2x20
Rear laterals 20,17
DB skull crushers and press downs.
Was doing a lot of talking and fucking off during the triceps stuff at the end.
I'm powering through leftovers today, my girl just started a meal prep for the first time in the past 2-3 years, so I'm letting her decide dinners. Il just add more to whatever she wants to make. But she's on a macros count and not keto for once lol. I guided her twords a Mediterranean style diet with a emphasis on low FODMAP foods. Not strictly low fodmap, but mindful of it.
So it sounds like I'm completely off the hook for cooking or planning dinner now.
sammpedd88
Well-known member
Makes it easier when the girl/wife is on the same page or at least close to the same page when it comes to meals.Ok we're back in the gym at least
Flat bench working up to 275x6
Cable fly superset CG incline press 15/15 reps 5 sets (not heavy but I failed on the 5th set)
Behind the neck press 3 sets of 20
Side laterals 2x20
Rear laterals 20,17
DB skull crushers and press downs.
Was doing a lot of talking and fucking off during the triceps stuff at the end.
I'm powering through leftovers today, my girl just started a meal prep for the first time in the past 2-3 years, so I'm letting her decide dinners. Il just add more to whatever she wants to make. But she's on a macros count and not keto for once lol. I guided her twords a Mediterranean style diet with a emphasis on low FODMAP foods. Not strictly low fodmap, but mindful of it.
So it sounds like I'm completely off the hook for cooking or planning dinner now.
Smont
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Well, I wasn't off the hook. I still had to prep like 90% of her stuff but it looks nice at least
I should have made rice or more potatoes but overall it's good. She made ground turkey and chicken breast for meats and she took my Greek yogurt and made it into a light chipotle lime dressing
LeanEngineer
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Greek yogurt and made it into a light chipotle lime dressingWell, I wasn't off the hook. I still had to prep like 90% of her stuff but it looks nice at least
I should have made rice or more potatoes but overall it's good. She made ground turkey and chicken breast for meats and she took my Greek yogurt and made it into a light chipotle lime dressing
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Dang that sounds good!
I need to start meal prepping at this level!
Smont
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I used to do it a lot, time to get back on the ball
sammpedd88
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Yeah that’s me and my wife’s Sunday task. Meal prepping lunches and snacks for the week. Makes it so much easier to stick to a meal plan.
Smont
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sammpedd88
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Man that looks good!
Hyde
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That’s it; I’m going to Smont’s house!
LeanEngineer
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I was thinking the same thing! Need to hire Smont as a personal chef!
Smont
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If someone would pay me to cook all there meals and train them id quit my day job lol, 100%I was thinking the same thing! Need to hire Smont as a personal chef!
Today I had to eat on the road almost all day.
Breakfast was coffee and a breakfast sandwich with three eggs on an everything bagel and a slice of cheese.
Lunch was a large grilled chicken grinder, I'm basically just had them make their chicken cutlet grinder with a chicken breast instead. Had a Coke and a diet Coke.
On my way to the gym I stopped at a gas station and I had a little yogurt cup a banana and a monster energy drink.
Training is still not on par at all. I'm still just feeling blah in the gym so I just kinda worked out with my class. This is getting frustrating, I want to train, I think about it at work all day, but once I get to the gym I just don't feel like doing anything and I abandon my workout and do some random b******* with my group and some shoulder presses.
Did some explosive landmine punches with a 25lb plate on the end and box jumps up to 40 inches x 6 and 42.5x1
Superset a DB press-DB row-DB squat 3 x 10-10-20 with 50's
50 pushups
6 way lateral raises 9lbsx30, 5lbs x30 (holy **** that was hard)
Seated back supported strict press 145x8, 165x6, 185x3
Post workout is 4oz chicken breast and 4 oz ground turkey, 1 Cup Rice and some green beans I fried in a splash of avocado oil
Gotta force myself to do legs Thursday. At bare minimum I gotta get my RDL, Front squats and leg presses.
Dustin07
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I will be placing a order from them on the 420 sale, I got a few seed banks I trust. Dutch passion is a good seed and so is Humboldt seed company. I'm also learning how to make my own this year I've got someone teaching me it's not really that complicated at least it doesn't appear to be but I'm not sure if my first time was successful so I should probably not count my chickens before they hatch. I'm literally just finishing trimming right now, some of the buds I showed you guys hanging up or dry enough for me to trim them and throw them in a jar. The rest of the plant probably needs two or three more days before it's ready.
Blue dream is a high yield slightly sativa dominant hybrid, it's pretty durable and has some bold resistance so it's good for growing big outdoors. They don't usually finish till the end of October early November around here so I don't usually mess with them because the weather here is pretty up and down that time of year. One day it can be 75° and sunny and the next day it can be 45 and pouring rain. A rainy fall season usually fucks up your harvest pretty good.
I don't remember, your location. That'll help pick a good strain to match your weather. There's lots of strains nowadays that you can easily pull 2 lb off a plant outdoors, I just typically choose not to grow plants that big because they're a lot harder to manage. But with a little bit of training your plant, you can grow a plant that's like 8 to 10 ft tall and almost as wide as it is tall
My wife is running seeds this year of her tomatoes she kept from last year, so this is our first season running "our" own seeds. she has 96 plants started at like 12" tall already. if we polinate those ourselves and have success then by next year I assume they'd be basically considered 100% our own strain of tomatoes since it would be two seasons of polination from only our area, with our harvested seeds. She's planning to run most of her plants in the garden of course but also going to try some full time in the greenhouse to experiement and see how it goes. I ordered those automatic vents for the window for like $25 that heat up and push the vent open when it gets hot, then when it cools down they shrink down and close the window so that will be interesting....
I met a guy last october who is growing MONSTER plants. He's pulling like $100k+/year selling (completely illegal operation) and he showed me pictures of 8-10ft+ plants. he claimed his will grow to 15ft and are hard to grow, and swears by soil quality over anything else. he said bone meal is is favorite supplement. I don't know a lot beyond that, but in Feb I got composted horse manure from a local lady, a LOT of it, like a truckload+ and she said its all she uses anymore and her tomato plants (actual tomatos, not weed) hit 8ft last year which is wild to me. so fingers crossed....
this is our best start yet, everything is 90% indoors still. temps are still hitting 32-34f in the lows, my greenhouse might hit 100-105f for about an hour at peak, but then drop all the way into the 30s so it's not consistently warm enough really for much yet.
I also started like 100 tobacco seeds for fun even though I don't smoke and they are all germinating. I will likely spread them around the yard in a couple areas and if I get leaves to harvest and dry out maybe I'll try to make a little chew, even though I don't chew either, just for the novelty and learning experience. they are taxing it at 100% out here now so my inner anti tax-man got fired up to give it a try.
we are in the Tacoma area/PNW so I think my weather zone is similar to yours.
Smont
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Lots of sativas grow 10-15ft tall if you let them. The problem with growing big outdoor plants like that is the are super high risk for mold and rot. If your growing hundreds of plants tho you will win on volume. But you're most likely going to end up with a bunch of mediocre product. Guys like him are why you can get a oz of outdoors weed on every corner in New England for $100 bucks. It's actually harder to find good stuff because they are so much outdoor mass produced weed nowadays that nobody wants to sell you the good stuff because they need to get rid of all their other stuff. I could actually go into detail on this one and it would take hours to have the whole conversation lol. It's a big topic of discussion amongst a lot of The dispo growers.
For talking to those guys I would say that growing really good weed, the order of importance is just like bodybuilding. If you want the best stuff then everything is the most important,
And just like bodybuilding, genetics for your seed reign supreme because if your seeds came from mediocre genetics then you're going to get a mediocre product no matter what.
When growing outdoors the soil biology is huge because it's the only thing you have control over, he can't control the Sun, he can't control the rain, or the wind or the humidity, I actually put a lot of effort into my soil for outdoors because it's the only thing you can control outside. You can throw it in a greenhouse and protect it from the rain but it also jacks the humidity up in your greenhouse which is okay during the vegetative state but not during flower.
The brighter your light and the more intense your sunlight or the higher ppfd and dli, the more nutrients your plant can absorb and use. So between the genetics and the soil those are your two biggest factors outdoors. When growing in organic soil the rain water and the sun just do the best that they can to get you to the end line. You as a grower can defoliate and train your plant in ways that will help though. But nobody grows top shelf cannabis outdoors or in a greenhouse for that matter most of the time even a commercial greenhouse you really need special conditions to grow top shelf.
Seed = genetics
Organic fertilizers or synthetic nutrients = Diet
Light intensity And duration = your training and training program
Temperature and humidity are the fine tuning to bring it all together.
Bone meal is great during the early to mid flowering stage.
Back to weed genetics, I'm making my own strains right now and I'm pollinating plants to make seeds and even though the mother plants all came from good genetics I know that my first round of plants that I make will not have good genetics, I mean it could but I'll likely have to do a fino hunt and pick through a bunch of the plants and then find the ones that have the traits that I'm looking for and then make more seeds from that plant and keep repeating the process until you lock it in.
When buying seeds if you ever see them say F4, F5 or higher seeds. You know those are top of the line stable genetics that are going to produce plants exactly as they're supposed to look.
F1 two and three are decent and you can grow top shelf weed with F1 2 and 3, but there's more room for genetic variations.
I just did that whole thing talk to text while trying to work on three other things at the same time so if I got all repetitive or said something stupid I'll go back and correct it later
Dustin07
Legend
Killer info dude. I might jump on youtube and find some videos during my next cardio session. we have a couple areas of awesome intense sunlight... we'll see what happens...Lots of sativas grow 10-15ft tall if you let them. The problem with growing big outdoor plants like that is the are super high risk for mold and rot. If your growing hundreds of plants tho you will win on volume. But you're most likely going to end up with a bunch of mediocre product. Guys like him are why you can get a oz of outdoors weed on every corner in New England for $100 bucks. It's actually harder to find good stuff because they are so much outdoor mass produced weed nowadays that nobody wants to sell you the good stuff because they need to get rid of all their other stuff. I could actually go into detail on this one and it would take hours to have the whole conversation lol. It's a big topic of discussion amongst a lot of The dispo growers.
For talking to those guys I would say that growing really good weed, the order of importance is just like bodybuilding. If you want the best stuff then everything is the most important,
And just like bodybuilding, genetics for your seed reign supreme because if your seeds came from mediocre genetics then you're going to get a mediocre product no matter what.
When growing outdoors the soil biology is huge because it's the only thing you have control over, he can't control the Sun, he can't control the rain, or the wind or the humidity, I actually put a lot of effort into my soil for outdoors because it's the only thing you can control outside. You can throw it in a greenhouse and protect it from the rain but it also jacks the humidity up in your greenhouse which is okay during the vegetative state but not during flower.
The brighter your light and the more intense your sunlight or the higher ppfd and dli, the more nutrients your plant can absorb and use. So between the genetics and the soil those are your two biggest factors outdoors. When growing in organic soil the rain water and the sun just do the best that they can to get you to the end line. You as a grower can defoliate and train your plant in ways that will help though. But nobody grows top shelf cannabis outdoors or in a greenhouse for that matter most of the time even a commercial greenhouse you really need special conditions to grow top shelf.
Seed = genetics
Organic fertilizers or synthetic nutrients = Diet
Light intensity And duration = your training and training program
Temperature and humidity are the fine tuning to bring it all together.
Bone meal is great during the early to mid flowering stage.
Back to weed genetics, I'm making my own strains right now and I'm pollinating plants to make seeds and even though the mother plants all came from good genetics I know that my first round of plants that I make will not have good genetics, I mean it could but I'll likely have to do a fino hunt and pick through a bunch of the plants and then find the ones that have the traits that I'm looking for and then make more seeds from that plant and keep repeating the process until you lock it in.
When buying seeds if you ever see them say F4, F5 or higher seeds. You know those are top of the line stable genetics that are going to produce plants exactly as they're supposed to look.
F1 two and three are decent and you can grow top shelf weed with F1 2 and 3, but there's more room for genetic variations.
I just did that whole thing talk to text while trying to work on three other things at the same time so if I got all repetitive or said something stupid I'll go back and correct it later
Smont
Legend
Look up the YouTube channel G7 genetics. He's probably the best grower I've come across on YouTube, definitely the frostiest
Some good channels to learn from though are......
Step-by-Step Cannabis Growing Guide
This playlist walks you through the entire cannabis growing process, step by step—from germination to harvest. I cover growing in soil, lighting, nutrients, ...
youtube.com
Smont
Legend
All sub maximal weights and reps, last set of everything was challenging.
I broke the group up into smaller groups and I had everyone lifting today. Mainly be they wanted to use the cable machines and some of the new attachments that came in
OHP 4x12
RDL 4x12
Duel handles pulldowns 4x12
Cable press down 4x12
Hammer curls superset with pushups
Afterwards I did 4 sets of RDL, I only went up to 275x6, for some reason everything felt heavy today. Even my grip was giving a little too. And I did 3 sets of hack squats up to 275x8
Normally I'd feel bad about the next part but I thought I'd share
Last night I wÃent off the rails, I had these macros on top of the regular meals in the for of all junk
My totals for the day were 6k lol
I broke the group up into smaller groups and I had everyone lifting today. Mainly be they wanted to use the cable machines and some of the new attachments that came in
OHP 4x12
RDL 4x12
Duel handles pulldowns 4x12
Cable press down 4x12
Hammer curls superset with pushups
Afterwards I did 4 sets of RDL, I only went up to 275x6, for some reason everything felt heavy today. Even my grip was giving a little too. And I did 3 sets of hack squats up to 275x8
Normally I'd feel bad about the next part but I thought I'd share
Last night I wÃent off the rails, I had these macros on top of the regular meals in the for of all junk
My totals for the day were 6k lol
Smont
Legend
Today I'm going for a 325 bench if everything feels good. I'm also going to go for a 255,lb seated pin press. That's the plan. After at il superset a cable fly with a CGB incline, then il do weighted chins, heavy DB pullovers, a low cable row and if I got time I'll do something for arms.
I said it, so now I gotta go do it
I said it, so now I gotta go do it
PolishHamm3r77
Well-known member
Godspeed!!!Today I'm going for a 325 bench if everything feels good. I'm also going to go for a 255,lb seated pin press. That's the plan. After at il superset a cable fly with a CGB incline, then il do weighted chins, heavy DB pullovers, a low cable row and if I got time I'll do something for arms.
I said it, so now I gotta go do it