Formutech Nutrition Pre-Training Catalyst

madiskinny said:
Mine doesn't :-( I workout at the university gym which is gaaaay
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That sucks! Not many gyms really allow it unless they cater to PLers and BBers
 
Ours doesn't allow it either, but the staff really doesn't pay attention.
 
pete8407 said:
On your next cut eat ice cream everyday, you'll get ripped:)
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mountainman33 said:
Friggin' right dude! LOL!
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TheSolution eats ice cream all the time and he stays pretty lean. He says he eats it in contest prep too lol. He has exceptional willpower though and can have all that planned out and not deviate at all. But the guy does eating challenges sometimes too. Lol. Really interesting guy, check out the cheat meal thread his recipes are friggin bananas!
 
Magdalena said:
Fat gripz! Great investment if u wanna strengthen ur grip...

;)
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They work well with tendinitis too. I like curling with them about every third arm day.
 
TheSwanks said:
TheSolution eats ice cream all the time and he stays pretty lean. He says he eats it in contest prep too lol. He has exceptional willpower though and can have all that planned out and not deviate at all. But the guy does eating challenges sometimes too. Lol. Really interesting guy, check out the cheat meal thread his recipes are friggin bananas!
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Oh I know! I post on that thread all the time. His cheat meals look delicious. I posted that cause some guys were arguing about it on a bulk foods thread last night.
 
pete8407 said:
Oh I know! I post on that thread all the time. His cheat meals look delicious. I posted that cause some guys were arguing about it on a bulk foods thread last night.
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No arguing, just one very uniformed individual who needed an education in nutrition. :chairshot:
 
Yesterday I had back and biceps! I was rushing from my last class of the day to the gym so I didn't give myself 15-30 minutes prior to my workout to drink my volatile so I pretty much chugged some of it walking to the gym and then drank the rest on the treadmill during my 10 minute warmup. I did 5 minutes of running on 6.8 and 5 minutes of incline power walking on 4.4. I got off and had a FREAK OUT because I couldn't find my other lifting glove but then I found it haha.

I headed into the free weights room and warmed up my rotator cuff with light weights. Then I started with bent over rows with a dumbbell. I supersetted that with 21s for biceps. I love 21s...they always kill my biceps! At this point my focus started to increase a lot! The volatile definitely kicked in. I started getting kind of heated though by this guy next to me in the weight room who basically had the entire dumbbell rack next to his bench :chairshot: then I supersetted upright rows with forearm curls! After that I did hammer curls and left the free weight room.

On the machines I started with lower back extension. Then I supersetted two different row machines. I did preacher curls and then lat pull downs. I've gained a lot more strength in my lats which makes me happy! I ended with 5 sets of minute and a half planks. Love em!

For the last hour of my workout I definitely felt the volatile. I had intense focus and motivation to lift as heavy as I could. I can already see the difference in taking volatile these past three workouts. Before I would put limitations on myself for how much I thought I could lift. That disappears whenever I'm working out after drinking volatile! Definitely helps me push myself past those preconceived limitations. I love it! Hopefully today I can work in a cardio session but I have a pretty busy schedule. If not, I'll definitely be hitting pecs and tris tomorrow after a heated yoga session in the morning! Can't wait
 
madiskinny said:
Yesterday I had back and biceps! I was rushing from my last class of the day to the gym so I didn't give myself 15-30 minutes prior to my workout to drink my volatile so I pretty much chugged some of it walking to the gym and then drank the rest on the treadmill during my 10 minute warmup. I did 5 minutes of running on 6.8 and 5 minutes of incline power walking on 4.4. I got off and had a FREAK OUT because I couldn't find my other lifting glove but then I found it haha.

I headed into the free weights room and warmed up my rotator cuff with light weights. Then I started with bent over rows with a dumbbell. I supersetted that with 21s for biceps. I love 21s...they always kill my biceps! At this point my focus started to increase a lot! The volatile definitely kicked in. I started getting kind of heated though by this guy next to me in the weight room who basically had the entire dumbbell rack next to his bench :chairshot: then I supersetted upright rows with forearm curls! After that I did hammer curls and left the free weight room.

On the machines I started with lower back extension. Then I supersetted two different row machines. I did preacher curls and then lat pull downs. I've gained a lot more strength in my lats which makes me happy! I ended with 5 sets of minute and a half planks. Love em!

For the last hour of my workout I definitely felt the volatile. I had intense focus and motivation to lift as heavy as I could. I can already see the difference in taking volatile these past three workouts. Before I would put limitations on myself for how much I thought I could lift. That disappears whenever I'm working out after drinking volatile! Definitely helps me push myself past those preconceived limitations. I love it! Hopefully today I can work in a cardio session but I have a pretty busy schedule. If not, I'll definitely be hitting pecs and tris tomorrow after a heated yoga session in the morning! Can't wait
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That looks like a solid workout. I can definitely notice when the Volatile kicks in as well.

Can I make one suggestion on your set and body part progression?
 
madiskinny said:
Of course, please do
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Try and focus on your compounds first, get your heavy work out of the way for your large muscle groups, then complete your sets for smaller muscle groups after. You may like it, you may not, but just a suggestion to help add to the amount of work your large muscles are doing, rather than have the smaller muscles get fatigued too quickly and keep you lage muscles from reaping the full benefits of lifting. Just my $.02.
 
mountainman33 said:
Try and focus on your compounds first, get your heavy work out of the way for your large muscle groups, then complete your sets for smaller muscle groups after. You may like it, you may not, but just a suggestion to help add to the amount of work your large muscles are doing, rather than have the smaller muscles get fatigued too quickly and keep you lage muscles from reaping the full benefits of lifting. Just my $.02.
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Yeah I always do that on leg day: doing squats and SLDL first and I usually do DL on back day and I do those first. So what specific exercises are you talking about that I should've done at the beginning?
 
madiskinny said:
Yeah I always do that on leg day: doing squats and SLDL first and I usually do DL on back day and I do those first. So what specific exercises are you talking about that I should've done at the beginning?
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Back day for me always starts with 4 sets of pull ups....
;)
 
madiskinny said:
Yeah I always do that on leg day: doing squats and SLDL first and I usually do DL on back day and I do those first. So what specific exercises are you talking about that I should've done at the beginning?
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Do all of your rows first, when you've completed ALL of your sets of rows, then do your bicep work. Same with your up coming chest day, do all of your pressing first then do your tris after.
 
mountainman33 said:
Do all of your rows first, when you've completed ALL of your sets of rows, then do your bicep work. Same with your up coming chest day, do all of your pressing first then do your tris after.
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Gotchaaa, well I'll definitely give that a try and let you know how it goes
 
Very detailed update. Love it!
 
mountainman33 said:
Do all of your rows first, when you've completed ALL of your sets of rows, then do your bicep work. Same with your up coming chest day, do all of your pressing first then do your tris after.
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Great advice! I like to begin pecs with flys to pre-exhaust my pecs.
 
tcslick said:
I love to start my back/bis workout with 21s to get the blood flowing into my biceps
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Yeah, 21's have been a staple for years. I usually finish with them. It's the pump I leave with that I love.
 
madiskinny said:
Had an amazing legs and delts workout Saturday with volatile PWO! Put one scoop of volatile into my water and drank it about 15 minutes before my workout. I started with 10 minutes on the stair master (my favorite cardio machine) on level 11. Broke out a good sweat around minute 4 or 5. After that I headed to warm up my rotator cuff with light weight. Then squats on squats on squats! I started with a light warmup set then went heavy for two more sets with less reps (one ass to the grass and one sumo for outer glutes) I finished with putting a plate underneath my heels and doing a light set of squats. Then I did 3 sets of straight leg deadlifts beating my PR which was really exciting! I had a 45 lb plate on each side and got out 9 reps for each set. It was also my first time using lifting straps and I really enjoyed them, so I got a pink pair of lifting straps to add to my all-pink workout gear collection :-) then I supersetted delt flys with seated calf raises and was really focusing on connecting my breath with my movement. Like my previous workout with volatile I had intense focus and motivation to lift heavier and heavier. Then I did shoulder presses with a barbell supersetted with front delt raises. I headed over to the rear delt machine. At this point I stopped supersetting, starting to feel a little tired from my compounding lifts and going so heavy at the beginning of my workout. Then I did this bada$$ donkey kick machine I had never seen before!! It was a hoist machine. I loveeee glute exercises and I really feel my glutes today! I finished with the leg extension machine. I skipped leg curls because I went so
heavy on SLDL but I had an amazing workout! Love the focus I get from volatile! Can't wait for pecs and tris :-)
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subbed in!! i added in SLDL last week. it was awesome. i havent done them in a while. i have terrrible form on reg deadlifts so i dont normally care about SL lol
 
mazzaiii said:
subbed in!! i added in SLDL last week. it was awesome. i havent done them in a while. i have terrrible form on reg deadlifts so i dont normally care about SL lol
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When doing SLDL dont even think about bending over; just push your butt out like your trying to knock a midget behind you over. The bar will passively fall while doing this, and keep the bar close to shins and keep back straight.
 
mazzaiii said:
subbed in!! i added in SLDL last week. it was awesome. i havent done them in a while. i have terrrible form on reg deadlifts so i dont normally care about SL lol
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Whenever I do SLDL I just think of my arms as ropes that are merely attached to the bar. Your arms shouldn't be doing any of the work so aside from your grip strength just let them hang from your shoulders and focus on not using them at all to pull up the bar!
 
madiskinny said:
Whenever I do SLDL I just think of my arms as ropes that are merely attached to the bar. Your arms shouldn't be doing any of the work so aside from your grip strength just let them hang from your shoulders and focus on not using them at all to pull up the bar!
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What natty said about keeping the bar code to your shins changes the movement, but in a good way. It helps put more stress and tension on your lower body making it more effective. Especially for glutes. ;-)
 
madiskinny said:
Whenever I do SLDL I just think of my arms as ropes that are merely attached to the bar. Your arms shouldn't be doing any of the work so aside from your grip strength just let them hang from your shoulders and focus on not using them at all to pull up the bar!
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You know your stuff!! Same thing I think about lmao!!

Sorry I've been absent, I've been traveling for work. I'll be home soon though
 
mountainman33 said:
What natty said about keeping the bar code to your shins changes the movement, but in a good way. It helps put more stress and tension on your lower body making it more effective. Especially for glutes. ;-)
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Yeah I always keep the bar super close to my legs. Love that booty burn! :naughty:
 
On Saturday I did pecs and tris at my favorite powerlifting gym in Austin! I drank my volatile in the car on the way there. I warmed up on the treadmill with 5 minutes of running and 5 minutes of uphill power walking. I started to feel the increase of energy after I got off the treadmill. I took mountainman33 advice and did all chest presses first. I started with flat bench barbell chest press. I did 3 sets increasing the weight every set. I headed over to the incline bench and did three sets of dumbbell incline presses and then 3 sets of flat bench flys. Then I did decline dumbbell presses and finished with cable presses! I definitely liked doing all my chest presses first although it was a little tiring so thanks mountainman33 for the advice! It worked super well. After doing all my chest exercises I started tris with overhead Tricep presses with a dumbbell. After this exercise I felt a surge of energy which was great! I did Tricep cable pull downs and I supersetted them with one minute planks. Then I did the Tricep push down machine and finished with Tricep push-ups! I had a great workout and definitely felt an increase of energy halfway through which was really helpful. Loving loving volatile. I did legs and delts Monday and I'll post that log after my class today!
 
madiskinny said:
On Saturday I did pecs and tris at my favorite powerlifting gym in Austin! I drank my volatile in the car on the way there. I warmed up on the treadmill with 5 minutes of running and 5 minutes of uphill power walking. I started to feel the increase of energy after I got off the treadmill. I took mountainman33 advice and did all chest presses first. I started with flat bench barbell chest press. I did 3 sets increasing the weight every set. I headed over to the incline bench and did three sets of dumbbell incline presses and then 3 sets of flat bench flys. Then I did decline dumbbell presses and finished with cable presses! I definitely liked doing all my chest presses first although it was a little tiring so thanks mountainman33 for the advice! It worked super well. After doing all my chest exercises I started tris with overhead Tricep presses with a dumbbell. After this exercise I felt a surge of energy which was great! I did Tricep cable pull downs and I supersetted them with one minute planks. Then I did the Tricep push down machine and finished with Tricep push-ups! I had a great workout and definitely felt an increase of energy halfway through which was really helpful. Loving loving volatile. I did legs and delts Monday and I'll post that log after my class today!
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Sounds like one hell of a chest/tri day!!! I always start with incline bb press, then flat bb press, then incline db fly's then some kind of high rep (50+ reps) finisher
 
TheSwanks said:
Sounds like one hell of a chest/tri day!!! I always start with incline bb press, then flat bb press, then incline db fly's then some kind of high rep (50+ reps) finisher
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Lol that's an intensely high rep, jeez...I don't think I could crank that many out. Swanks is a bada$$
 
Madi is doin' some work in here! Nice job!
 
On Monday I did legs and delts. I chugged volatile about 20 minutes before my WO. When I got to the gym I did the usual warm up. 10 minutes on the treadmill: 5 running and 5 uphill power walking. Broke a pretty good sweat by the time I got off. I headed over to the squat rack buttt they were all taken *curses* so I started with SLDL. I did three sets and broke my PR with 50lbs on each side which was exciting. I've broken my SLDL PR twice taking volatile! A squat rack opened up and I started off with a light set, increasing the weight every time through 4 sets of squats with 10 reps each. I was sweating balls by then. I went to the free weight room to superset my delt exercises. Like always, I did some exercises to warm up my rotator cuffs. Then I started with front delt raises supersetted with lateral delt raises. Then I supersetted 3 sets of Arnold presses with rear delt raises. I headed to the adduction and abduction machines and supersetted them, increasing my weight every set. I love the motivation I get from volatile, one of my many favorite aspects of taking volatile before my WOs. Then I did seated calf press for three sets and headed to the leg press machine. After that I supersetted leg extension and leg curls and finished with donkey kicks on the smith machine (a personal fave although I get some weird looks)
Loved the energy and focus like always with volatile. Can't wait for back and bis tomorrow!
 
madiskinny said:
On Monday I did legs and delts. I chugged volatile about 20 minutes before my WO. When I got to the gym I did the usual warm up. 10 minutes on the treadmill: 5 running and 5 uphill power walking. Broke a pretty good sweat by the time I got off. I headed over to the squat rack buttt they were all taken *curses* so I started with SLDL. I did three sets and broke my PR with 50lbs on each side which was exciting. I've broken my SLDL PR twice taking volatile! A squat rack opened up and I started off with a light set, increasing the weight every time through 4 sets of squats with 10 reps each. I was sweating balls by then. I went to the free weight room to superset my delt exercises. Like always, I did some exercises to warm up my rotator cuffs. Then I started with front delt raises supersetted with lateral delt raises. Then I supersetted 3 sets of Arnold presses with rear delt raises. I headed to the adduction and abduction machines and supersetted them, increasing my weight every set. I love the motivation I get from volatile, one of my many favorite aspects of taking volatile before my WOs. Then I did seated calf press for three sets and headed to the leg press machine. After that I supersetted leg extension and leg curls and finished with donkey kicks on the smith machine (a personal fave although I get some weird looks)
Loved the energy and focus like always with volatile. Can't wait for back and bis tomorrow!
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Damn madi you put in some work!!!! Love the dedication and work ethic
 
madiskinny said:
Haha thank you. Lifting has become a super big part of my life over the last 8 months. I love being at the gym!
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I hear you. Its become an obsession of sorts for me over the last couple years
 
Nice update, and way to go on the PR(s)!!
 
NattyForLife said:
When doing SLDL dont even think about bending over; just push your butt out like your trying to knock a midget behind you over. The bar will passively fall while doing this, and keep the bar close to shins and keep back straight.
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Made me laugh. But true. Good way to explain it.
 
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